How the US "State Sponsors of Terrorism List" Reinforces the Illegal Blockade of Cuba

[Judi Lynn]

4. Their altruistic trips to "visit" their impoverished relatives sound like old-fashioned smuggling to me.

Luxury items like banned products like Cuban rum and cigars sound like a real labor of love, don't they?

How interesting the slave-owners in Cuba were so thoughtful they forced their slaves to grow only products which were highly sought as special treats for wealthy households in Europe and the US, not products the poor of Cuba could use to sustain their lives all those long, greedy, brutal years of bondage.

Any small strips of land beside roads or railways the hungry hordes could use to grow vegetables for themselves were quickly destroyed as soon as government agents discovered them.

At the time of the revolution, a huge segment of the massive poor population lived with intestinal parasites throughout their lives.