Columnist Albor Ruiz, writing in the New York Daily News this morning, rehashes familiar blather about how the U.S. "embargo" on Cuban is a failure and why it should be lifted.
Nothing about how Fidel Castro is responsible for Cuba's misery, and nothing about how Cuba's trade and other dealings with the rest of the world have done nothing to lift Cubans from their despair.
Nothing new from Ruiz, and nothing worth repeating here.
However, worth noting is a comment from the "well informed" Sarah Stephens, executive director of the Center for Democracy in the Americas, who tells Ruiz exactly what he wants to hear:
"The real disservice to the Cuban people is America's commitment to a policy that has failed to achieve its goals for 46 years," Stephens said. "A policy that disserves the American people by costing them jobs, profits, their right to travel, and their constitutional rights to visit Cuba and meet with Cubans on their island and in their homes."
But if she had changed just a few words, Stephens would have gotten it right:
"The real disservice to the Cuban people is CUBA'S commitment to a policy that has failed to achieve its goals for 46 years," Stephens said. "A policy that disserves the CUBAN people by costing them jobs, profits, their right to travel, and their HUMAN rights to visit THE UNITED STATES and meet with AMERICANS IN THEIR COUNTRY and in their homes."
Sometimes, what somebody doesn't say reveals more than what they do say. In this case, Stephens, and by extension, Ruiz, reveal at best, an ignorance about Cuba, and at worst, a total disdain for the Cuban people.
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