Underlying article in the NY Times from 8 Feb 2012
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/08/world/americas/american-embargo-on-cuba-has-50th-anniversary.html
It is difficult to understand that after 50 years of economic embargo over Cuba, a majority of the US decision makers find it still necessary to maintain this measure. Notably astonishes that all parties in US concede that the 50-year embargo didn’t accomplish its core mission to overthrow communism in Cuba. Nowadays, Communism isn’t a global treat any more, but Cuba remains one of the last nations in the world following the communism doctrine; that should be reason enough for the US to re-think its Cuba politics. José Cardenas’s pathetic expression that the US have a hemispheric commitment to freedom, democracy and respect for human rights, doesn’t justify the embargo over Cuba, considering that the USA hold themselves prisoners without any sentence for more than 10 years on the island of Cuba in Guantanamo. An US strategy might be to wait until the two Cuban leaders Fidel and Raul Castro die to gain afterwards a strong influence over the island. An embargo that didn’t bring the desired results during 50 years should be cancelled in favor of a new strategy to help Cuba to find its democratic way for the future.
