| Anything is possible, but the US shot itself in the foot long ago by supporting Batista. People in the US don't get it, but the revolution has been far kinder to the people than was Batista. In the peoples view, the revolution was a liberator, not an oppressor.
The word about Raoul as I mention is that he will lead Cuba to democracy or at least a more democratic situation, but much is enshrined in law now and may or may not be difficult to change.
Possibly the US simply doesn't like having Cuba, a socialist state sitting 60 miles off its coast and being more successful than many other nations in Central America and the Caribean basin. Of course, as I point out earlier the US had a lot to do with Central America. And a lot of that was literaly either direct, direct or indirect support of thuggery. Yet, the Noble Prize, awarded for bringing peace and democracy to Central America, certainly wasn't given to a citizen of the United States, though he is by literal definition, an American, as is any inhabitant of the Americas.
But for whatever reason and whatever chance of success, I doubt the US will stop trying, especially not when there is such a large block of votes in Florida.
BTW, the act of Fidel of sending the Cuban criminals to the US gets a smile in Cuba and the joke about why Cuba is a safe country is told in many places.
And more than any single reason why the US keeps after Fidel, it may be because he has simply outsmarted the US on many occasions, and that, must piss those good ole boys off to the hilt.
One thing that I have always wondered about the US governments attitude to communism is its stark fear of it. If communism is so evil, such a failure and so bad, why indeed is it so feared?
Do people really think the US, so proud of its post colonial history will simply roll over and adopt communism? Hah, unlikely, so why the fear? |