Don W wrote:

Gogarty wrote:

Well! I am astonished at the tone of this thread from a bunch of
people who by all rights should be off the wall right wing nuts. Bravo!

If you want to go to Cuba, what is to stop you from going via any
other country in the region rather than directly from the U.S.?


It is not the going to Cuba that is the problem. It is the coming back
to the USA with the Cuban stamp in your passport.

Heck, anyone could sail down to Cayman Brac, and then go to Cuba from
there. If you do though, you'd better be ready to "lose" your passport
and get a new one at one of the US embassies in some foreign country. A
lot of hassle just to visit a particular country.

Personally, I do not know why the USA is still embargoing Cuba when we
are running a HUGE trade defecit with Communist China, and thereby
funding the modernization of the Chinese military.

However those are the rules as of today.

I believe the US lifted trade concessions with China when China agreed
to make capitalist changes to their economic system. Those changes
should inevitably lead them down the slippery slope to democracy.

Stephen