From: gen4033@husky1.stmarys.ca
Newsgroups: soc.culture.latin-america
Subject: Re: Humanitarian, Cuba, Et Al.
Date: 18 Aug 92 15:28:26 GMT
Organization: St. Mary's University, Halifax, N.S., Canada

This I found in Soc.Culture.Latin-america:


>If they are so intersted in aiding cuban hospitals why don't they endorse the 
>Torricelli Bill (Democrat, New Jersey) which is currently before the Senate 
>and allows for the export of medicine to Cuba?  Is it because they simply 
>support the POLITICS of the cuban government and care less about the health of
>the population?  

   No.  The torricelli Bill is being opposed because people care more 
about the health of Cubans than AMERICAN politics.  The politics that
have kept the economic embargo in place for three decades.


>It is clear that we must approve the Torricelli Bill in orderto accomplish two 
>things:
>
>1) Castigate governments with corporations that do buisness with Cuba
>
>2) Allow medicines into the country under the supervision of international 
>agencies which do not participate in the propaganda ploys of Doctors who do 
>nothing to serve our homeless yet do great public relations campaigns for 
>dictator Castro.


     RE:  #1.  *Sigh*.  Interesting that Political-Economy is only 
achieved when it fits the interests of the USA.  Otherwise, economic
interests are generally left to their own affair, regardless of the
impact on people's lives.

	Now.  "Castigate governments with corporations that do business
with Cuba".  Hmmmm.  Well, I'll forward this off to Ottawa and see
how much MY GOVERNMENT appreciates a threat of castigation from an
American stuck in the "we know what's right for the world" mindset.

LISTEN:  The economic embargo has done more harm to Cubans than anything
Castro has done in the past 30 years.  Putting pressure on Latin
American countries to isolate Cuba or face a cutoff of AMERICAID is
another example of the US's continuing paranoia of socialist ideology.
IF, 30 years ago, the embargo was not imposed, then we would hve
seen by now whether Castro's brand of Socialism would have survived
in the Global economy.  If nothing else, the embargo in fact added
to Castro's success.. making him a hero in his people's eyes, and
forcing him to embrace the Communist east, a choice he did not make
enthusiastically.

	RE:  #2   Allow medicines into Cuba regardless.  Where the
USA places conditions on it's Third World Aid, Cuba sends it's 
health care workers and volunteers without strings.  Only the
selfless want to help others, without seeking a PROFIT in the venture,
as every American has been indoctrinated to do since birth.

Money is less important than Lives.  Repeat that several times.
With any luck, it will stick and you may see things a little more
clearly in the future.  Pardon my self-righteous manner, but 
the attitude displayed within your message is one that provokes
my temper whenever I hear it.  Unfortunately, It's heard all too
often.  Get a Life.


>If you agree simply write a letter or call your Senator, and let him know what 
>you think about the Bill.

Indeed.  Write a letter.  Ask that the bill be revoked/opposed/etc.
Cuba deserves the right to self-determination.  U-S intervention
prior to Castro's takeover was quite enough, thank you.  Leave well
enough alone, allow Cuba to trade internationally, or is the concept
of an OPEN MARKET too alien to you?  Sarcasm intended.

By the way.  Consider this point... Why is it that only the USA stands
against Cuba?  Why have other countries refused to tow the line and
join the economic blockade?  I hate to break this to you, but it's
not because the U-S is morally superior to the rest of us. It is 
in fact because the rest of the world is not blinded by the American
Ego.  For once, just once, consider your position, think about 
whether or not you are in fact right. 

And look at the exiled Cuban community in Florida for what they are...
the elite of a country who've been stripped of their social power and
their wealth, so that the majority of Cubans could benefit.  The greater
good is always the better good.


Canada stands firm in it's support of Cuban self-determination.  We do
and will continue to trade with that beautiful country full of friendly
people.  Not 'godless communists waiting to attack our shores'.

Some times you people just turn my stomach.

Marcus.