Does anyone believe for one minute extending the embargo is helpful? There is nothing the embargo did, except, putting Cubans into poverty while the leadership was comfortable.
Rubio's position on Cuba is hate. The USA has spent an incredible amount of money to enforce an embargo on Cuba including a TV Marti.
December 13, 2014
By Marc A. Caputo
Nicaragua's president (click here) is banning U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio and U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen from traveling to the Central American country because, he says, he is protesting the Venezuela sanctions the Republican lawmakers helped pass Wednesday in Congress, according to The Tico Times.
"Just like they [U.S. officials] have their lists, we can make our own lists in Latin America of those who shouldn’t enter our country,” Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega told Costa Rica-based Tico Times during a meeting with Venezuelan officials in his country.
Rubio, via Twitter, mocked Ortega's decision: "Oh no! My summer vacation plans are ruined!" The sanctions, primarily aimed at Venezuelan officials and proxies involved with violently suppressing pro-democracy activists, would ban them from traveling or staying in the United States and would freeze any U.S. assets. President Barack Obama plans to sign the legislation, S2142.
The sanctions legislation Ortega is protesting does not mention Nicaragua or really involve the country, which has received as much as $3 billion in Venezuelan aid since the Sandinista government returned to power in 2007. Venezuela is also a top ally of Cuba's government, of which Rubio and Ros-Lehtinen — Cuban-American legislators — have been outspoken opponents....
The conditions of the embargo is old and have never proven to work. This embargo is to satiate the hatred of the Cubans in Florida. It is all political, including TV Marti (click here). It is all a circus for Florida's politics.The Cuban population in Florida are big donors to the Republicans in Florida and in return they get many, many favors; this is just one.
There are many Americans that want to be able to travel to see family and provide gifts that make their lives easier under the embargo. This has gone on too long to call it effective. It's nonsense.
