During the Republican presidential debate last night, there was talk of positions toward Cuba.\u00a0 Cuba currently remains closed to American investments as a result of a 50 year travel and trade embargo.\u00a0 The Obama administration, like administrations before, have chastised Communist Cuba for it’s human rights violations, but at the same time Obama has loosened restrictions on Cuban\/American travel.\u00a0 And American businesses are now looking at Cuba as a future market.\u00a0 This is, indeed, a complex geo-political issue.\u00a0 Yet, fundamentally, I don’t believe tourism or business profits should trump human rights violations.\u00a0 With Raul Castro continuing in\u00a0the same vein of his\u00a0brother Fidel’s “iron fist” rule, scattered pockets of protest are emerging throughout that country.\u00a0 It’s too early to tell whether there will be a ‘Cuban Spring,’ but let’s hope the Obama administration (or whatever administration is to come) helps support the possible congealing of this\u00a0movement on as many strategic fronts as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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