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08/29/07  Cuban Communist President Fidel Castro announces his support for Hillary Rodham for President in 2008, teamed with Barak Obama.  Is there a message here, anyone?  JES

06/19/05  U.S. Cuban policy has been really going nowhere for years, especially since Congress foreclosed on the option of assassination.  Leaving that issue aside for the moment, we have been left with the hope that since the end of the Cold War, and the end of Soviet support, that the Cubans would finally somehow cave in under the pressures of the embargo.  It hasn't worked, as many other countries around the world have picked up the slack.  Too many people, including resident Cuban exiles, have become invested, in various ways, in the status quo.  Meanwhile poor Cubans have suffered as the regime has not.  The Mountain Observer does not recommend any sudden reversal of the embargo policy, per say, but rather that we might consider selective exceptions.  Tease the monster into incremental self destruction, so to speak.  Selective lifting of restrictions so as to support people directly without enabling further government mischief.  For example, what might be the consequences if we suddenly lifted restrictions on the import of cigars?  JES

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