re: Boy the economy in Cuba is really getting bad

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30% of the world's wealth is less than 60 miles away from your island and is basically inaccessible. There's no reason we should have an embargo on Cuba. None.

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70% of the world's wealth is completely accessible and a lot of that American wealth is accessible through intermediaries. Does the embargo hamper them? Yes. Does it keep them in abject poverty? No, the failure of their communist system is doing so much of it that any issues from not being able to trade with the US are negligible.

Unless, again, there's something magical about trading with the US which causes a country to become more productive and focused on wealth-building.