The US Government, and that means all of us citizens as well, practices state terrorism in many ways, in this case economic terrorism. The economic embargo of Cuba by the US since 1960 has been in place in the hopes that if the Cuban people suffered enough as a result, they would rise up and form a counter-revolution, allowing US corporations and interests back in. That is terrorism, the intentional harming of innocent civilian populations for a strategic goal. BUT, it has not worked. Many Cubans ARE suffering because the US won't buy anything from Cuba and won't sell anything to Cuba, like medicine, food etc. People risk thier lives in small boats because they are desperate, not because they hate Fidel or his economic policies. In spite of all this, there is not as much hunger and homelessness in Cuba as there is in the US, they have universal health care, education, etc., but a stagnant economy because we won't trade with them keeps many unemployed or underemployed. It is long past time that a handfull of Cuban emigres holds the US hostage through an imbalanced electoral college system of voting. US policy should reflect US values, not corporate greed or upper class assumed privileges.

Viva Fidel, viva Cuba.