Cuba

[MsGuy]

Florida Democrats think that opening to Cuba will give them a pathway into the Cuban American voting bloc.

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Personally I think the Moss Back leadership in Miami (who were the among the first to bail out of Cuba) are not only willing to inflict pain on ordinary Cubans to further their obsession with the Castro brothers, they want to injure regular Cubans.

1) They figure the worse the better; the more miserable they can make the Cuban populace, the sooner the Castros will go.

2) This never gets said aloud but there's a class difference between the exile leaders and the vast majority of those still living in Cuba. I suspect that even before the Revolution the professional, industrial, commercial and landowning class that fled Castro despised the working and peasant farmer class Cubans that stayed behind. And now they hate them; they blame ordinary Cubans for putting Castro in power in the first place.

So it's not a question of collateral damage to ordinary Cubans from the embargo, they were the bulls-eye on the target from the git-go. It will be interesting to see if recognizing the Cuban government and moving toward open trade will flush the geezers out into the open on the rationale for the embargo.

I mean get real folks, does anyone really think Raul or Fidel or any other big wig in the military or party in Cuba is counting his pennies or worried about feeding his kids?

Or is it the case that the Moss-backs won't budge unless & until they get back their haciendas and factories and rightful place at the top in Cuba?

[RA1]

I can only hope that you are incorrect.

Best regards,

RA1

[MsGuy]

Most of Latin America has a smallish upper class of European looking families that sees lesser (& usually more indio looking) folks as best employed working hard to enrich their betters. It goes all the way back to the conquest.

Take a gander at Enrique Pena Nieto, el presidente de Mexico.

Ain't a whole lot of Azteca or Mayan in that face, is there?

500 years later and the conquistadors are still running the show. And consider: Mexican society is much more fluid than most of Latin America. Why would we expect Cuba to be all that different?

Not to say that there isn't a bit of the same attitude floating around here in the good old US of A, just that here, unlike there, it's generally considered gauche to speak of it too openly.