June 22, 2010
The United States, world pariah Israel and Palau, which is a politically unimportant country and near impossible to find on a world map, are the only three countries in the world still supporting the failed, mean spirited embargo imposed on Cuba by president Dwight Eisenhower in 1960, before President Barack Obama was born.
Although the United Nations, the Catholic Church and every reputable institution in the world have decried and demanded the end of this monstrosity for the past twenty years, the United States has obstinately ignored such pleas, choosing a confrontational path that benefits no one.
Not even the monumental environmental disaster which is taking place in the gulf of Mexico and has yet to hit the coast of Florida and devastate our state, has sounded the alarm at the highest level of the US administration of a similar incubating risk, much closer to south Florida, when Cuba begins next year its offshore exploration drilling, in search of billions of gallons of crude oil.
Ordinary people know that it is through collaboration, agreement and understanding, that it will be possible to deal with these and other occurring natural disasters, not through brute force, coercion or threats.
President Barack Obama whom we have supported and trusted that his higher intellect would have enabled him to overcome the crude, fourth-grader policies of his predecessor, has so far, yielded his authority and decisions in this field to members of his cabinet, who are highly influenced by the powerful US-Cuba Democracy PAC, which is headquartered in Miami and is a rabidly right-wing and anti-Cuba.
Sadly, if this irrational policy is not changed and a similar disaster would occur closer to home, it may be too late or there may be no interlocutor on the other end to take our call, all of which have been created in part by our ultra-right wing friends, who are totally incapable otherwise, of helping in such a life and death catastrophe.
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