Daily Kos: Dodd: End Cuba Embargo:
"Presidential hopeful Chris Dodd would end a decades-old trade embargo with Cuba
and lift travel restrictions to the island if elected, he said Saturday. The
Democratic senator from Connecticut also said he would open an embassy in Havana
and shut down TV Marti, a U.S. government-run television station that broadcasts
to Cuba. 'Other than the war in Iraq, no other American policy is more broadly
unpopular internationally,' Dodd said of the United States' policy toward Cuba."
I don't support shutting down the TV station, but opening trade with Cuba makes sense. Cuba will fall in the same way that China is falling into capitalism, and global markets. It happens because communism is based on a flawed foundation. When people are given access to more consumer goods, they are going to want more consumer goods. That is going to increase the demand for income. There are many people in all countries who find that they just can't make the income they want working for others. They start their own business, the rise of small business in Cuba will lead to a population that is more concerned about taxes and the spending of government money - money they worked hard for. The denial of small business itself would result in rising tensions, if that were the case. These tensions and desire to effect government will force the government into allowing free speech, or total repression.
Once voters gain power of the machinery of government they will start to take it apart. In the end will it look like America, I doubt it, but it will be open to the world in ways that it isn't now. It will be free in ways that it isn't now.
