Y'know, things are tough in a lot of other Latin American countries too. How nice do you think the police are in Mexico and Pero and Guatemala? If you want to compare Cuba to someone, compare them to the other Latin American countries. They provide free education and free medical care to their people. They send doctors all over the Third World to other countries where they are needed. What other Latin American countries do that? There are a lot of Latin American countries whose human rights violations and abuses exceed Cuba's by far and whose people are far worse off...but the USA is not embargoing any of them. Why? Why do we not hear about the awful things that happen to people in Latin American countries that are allied WITH the USA?

Simple. The real issue between the USA and Cuba has nothing to do with human rights, liberty, or freedom. It has to do with corporate dollars. Period. They want Castro and his socialist revolution gone so that American businesses can exploit Cuba the way they did when Batista was there. That's all it's about. The rest is a bunch of phony, self-serving rhetoric.

The anti-Castro forces would do nothing with that island if they took it over but hand it back to the multinational corporations, the rich crooks, and another client dictator...or some phony new political party (made in the USA) that bows down to corporate power like a little slave and does exactly what corporate America tells them to do. That's how it works in Latin America, and it's been working that way ever since anyone alive today can remember.

You either play ball with North American corporate power in the western hemisphere...or you are an official enemy, marked for death.