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Cuba: No progress? No relief "In the end, Cuba's hope for change centers on Havana, not Washington." www.heritage.org Posted on Wed, May. 27, 2009 http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/1066973.html Even before his inauguration, President Obama promised to improve relations with Yet many in Congress, the academic and business communities want to go further, faster. They've called on Obama to lift the ban on travel by all American citizens and end trade restrictions altogether. Officials of the administration are wary of yielding to this pressure. Why? Two reasons. • No president, as leader of the free world, wants to embrace the Obama has made future steps contingent on something positive occurring in The grass-roots foundations of freedom -- civil society, trade unions and individual enterprise -- are routinely squashed by the juggernaut of the Cuban state. The communist regime deadens the lives of millions of Cubans, leaving them apathetic, isolated and devoid of hope. • No president would feel comfortable taking steps that would help fill the coffers of Castro Brothers Inc. The 1962 embargo has been substantially modified over time. The Would additional billions accomplish any more without a profound structural, democratic transition in In 2009, the partial embargo serves two purposes. It's still a leveraging point for bargained change in U.S.-Cuba relations. Second, it represents the moral divide between liberty and repression, between dictatorship and democracy. So far, the Cuban leadership has been unresponsive to Obama's overtures. For Fidel Castro, venomous as ever, serious dialogue on human rights and democracy is tantamount to the The It can still quickly disappear once a dissenter like Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet walks out of prison, when blogger Yoani Sanchez is free to write and travel without hindrance and when a humble Afro-Cuban cane-cutter like Jorge Luis Garcia Pérez Antúnez is able to speak his mind without fear of retribution and imprisonment. In the end,
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