News Analysis: A fifty-three year embargo evidences an archaic view of good international relations of a Super Power to its neighbor. Cuba, purportedly sitting on top of an enormous gas/oil deposit [of which certain Americans knew about before Fidel Castro’s rise to power] could decide to open up its territory to oil exploration. If so, the embargo would be immediately withdrawn, one could logically infer.
Historically, upsetting Americans by the taking over of casinos and other businesses by the Cubans was merely ‘window dressing’; a pretext for the real value of Cuba to certain Americans: Petrochemicals.
Today, more damage is done to the Cuban people by isolating them. What gain is that to a civilized Super Power? Rather than evidencing animosities against the Cuban Government, the United States should engage it in meaningful dialogue. Opening up the American market to Cuban goods and vice-versa can only help neighborly relations. Perhaps then, Cuba would allow America to explore and develop its gas/oil deposits [America’s little secret known by a few].
Reference: http://rt.com/news/un-vote-cuba-embargo-940/