Détente No Help to Cubans

[TomSea]

Détente No Help to Cubans
By Petr Svab, Epoch Times   | February 2, 2017 AT 5:55 PM

Two years after President Barack Obama relaxed America’s stance toward the communist regime in Cuba, citizens of the island nation are still waiting for any substantial benefits.

Although Obama managed to widen the crevice for U.S. companies in the Cuban market, Cubans have seen little improvement in their economic freedoms, while their political freedoms remain abysmal.

Obama started to drop restrictions on Cuba in December 2014 and over the next two years opened diplomatic relations and secured limited access to Cuba for U.S. travelers, telecommunication companies, and banks.

“I believe that we can do more to support the Cuban people and promote our values through engagement,” Obama said in a statement at the time.

Continued: http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/2217648-detente-no-help-to-cubans-2/

[geronl]

Surrendering to the dictatorship in the standoff was not meant to help the average Cuban

[mountaineer]

Surrendering to the dictatorship in the standoff was not meant to help the average Cuban

Exactly. When has a communist dictatorship ever done anything to help its citizens? The Soviet Union and China of the 1950s and 1960s may be ancient history to some, but it always was about a privileged, powerful elite and their disregard for the suffering masses.

[Just_Victor]

Cuba's problem isn't lack of trade with the US.  It's communism.

[mountaineer]

Freedom is the solution, not the enslavement that is communism.