Freedom to travel. Freedom to earn a living. Freedom to access due process under law.
Do you believe that the Cuban people live under some weird form of Jeffersonian democracy, or do you think the system in Cuba is, in fact, a repressive system?
Cuba has one of the best health care systems in the world and one of the highest literacy rates.
Your intention of going into Cuba is simply to force them into what you view as libertopia.
Are you suggesting that Cuba would be better off without diplomatic relations with the United States? Are you suggesting that we should continue to hold Cuba at arms length for their own good?
Are you suggesting freedom=capitalism?
I'm suggesting freedom =freedom. Whether the Cubans want to impart a measure of Socialism in the American mold or the European mold, it makes little difference. Freedom comes from being released from oppression.
Yet, you can't accurately show me oppression.
I understand that a lot of people are scared of this island. They are really angry that the mob got kicked out to begin with. But, if you listen to the interviews with Castro he will tell you that they went in with a huge list of items to be accomplished and many of them were accomplished and many of them were not and some were flat out naive.
Castro has said that at the time of the revolution they believed in Communism and that the Soviet Union was all about brotherly love and what they found out was that the Soviet Union really wanted was Cuba to be a sugar plantation.
Incidentally, that is exactly what the US wants.
Thus far, people have demonstrated that they are upset with Cuba because Cuba doesn't want to be exploited.
Something about each nation-state being sovereign.
So, we can cut the shit on spreading democracy. Clearly we do not.