A little recap about the bastardly devilish embargo: <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>The pressures exerted by the U.S. Departments of State and Trade on the suppliers of Cuba have concerned a wide range of goods necessary for the health sector (medicines destined for pregnant women, laboratory products, radiology equipment, operating tables and surgery equipment, anaesthetics, defibrillators, artificial breathing apparatuses, dialysis apparatuses, pharmaceutical stocks...) and went as far as to prevent the free supply of food for new-born babies and of equipment for unities of paediatric intensive care . The production capacities of vaccines conceived by Cuba are hampered by the frequent lack of spare parts and of essential components that have to be imported, as well as water treatment centres. This embargo provokes today an unjustified suffering of the Cuban people. The shortages affecting many medicines, which are not produced in Cuba, complicate the immediate and complete implementation of the procedures of treatment of breast cancer, leukaemia, cardiovascular or kidney diseases, and HIV for example. Moreover, the U.S. authority's infringements on individual freedom of movement and scientific knowledge... (restrictions on travel of U.S. researchers, the disrespect of bilateral agreements on Cuban researcher's visas, refusal to grant software licences or to satisfy the orders from Cuban libraries of books, magazines, diskettes or CD-Rom of specialized scientific literature...) have in fact led to the extension of the embargo to areas formally excluded from it by the law. One of the most fruitful opportunities to develop cooperation between nations on a solidary and humanist basis is therefore blocked. The embargo is also in contradiction with the principles of the promotion and protection of human rights, which are desired by the U.S. people for themselves and for the rest of the world. For all these reasons, this unacceptable embargo has to cease immediately.</div> http://www.alternatives.ca/article876.html Everyone in the world, except the USA, Palau, Israel, and the Marshall Islands hate this embargo. And Israel shouldn't even count because they would jump through flaming hoops if we asked them to.
Maybe it was just your wording but no one but those countries supports the embargo. UN votes 184 for U.S. to drop embargo on Cuba CanWest News Service Published: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 UNITED NATIONS -- The annual UN vote on the U.S. trade embargo on Cuba saw support for the Caribbean island remain overwhelming yesterday, despite a call by President George W. Bush last week for countries to join Washington in pushing Havana toward democracy. Canada was among 184 countries that supported the measure denouncing the embargo, which the world body passed for the 16th year. Joining the U.S. in opposing it were close American allies Israel, Palau and Marshall Islands, while Micronesia abstained. Cuba
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (shookem @ Feb 19 2008, 05:43 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Maybe it was just your wording but no one but those countries supports the embargo. UN votes 184 for U.S. to drop embargo on Cuba CanWest News Service Published: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 UNITED NATIONS -- The annual UN vote on the U.S. trade embargo on Cuba saw support for the Caribbean island remain overwhelming yesterday, despite a call by President George W. Bush last week for countries to join Washington in pushing Havana toward democracy. Canada was among 184 countries that supported the measure denouncing the embargo, which the world body passed for the 16th year. Joining the U.S. in opposing it were close American allies Israel, Palau and Marshall Islands, while Micronesia abstained. Cuba</div> Obviously it was a typo. I fixed my post.
You say obviously but theres some pretty thick ppl out there. (ps anyone got a clue as to how I can get rid of È when i want an apostrophe or any symbol). all you can do is write letters and vote bro. either that or join me in my trip south to deliver raft equipment.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (AEM @ Feb 19 2008, 12:05 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Soooo, where does this leave Raul?</div> In power?
