You see, the main difference is that those hundreds of billions of dollars you mention would be going into a very few pockets (pockets of the already rich from America...call 'em carpetbaggers), while the ordinary Cubans would either lose most of what they already have...or they could sign up as security guards and bully-boys to protect the carpetbaggers....get to wear a nice blue uniform and carry a machinegun and rape the neighbours daughters....just like having Batista back again. Gotta love that democracy! Check it out in Guatemala and El Salvador and those other places that are "moving towards democracy"...oops, I mean "autocracy".

Cuba is far from perfect. The dictatorships the USA has traditionally funded in Latin America are even farther from perfect. Much farther.

Now, you wanna talk about communism? Check out China, your biggest trading partner. That's communism with a vengeance, combined with some really nasty capitalism as well...an interesting combination of vice and dictatorship.

It's because Cuba is small that America pushes Cuba around, not because Cuba is evil.

- LH