The American blockade of Cuba serves only to attract sympathy to a regime which does not deserve it, the country to which one ought to move if one wants a government which persecutes homosexuality, and perhaps most notable as the model for Britain’s impregnable pseudo-comprehensive schools by means of which the real, but vigorously self-denying, ruling class perpetuates itself from generation to generation.
The Cuban pretend-exiles are in fact economic migrants and free to go back any time they like. Far from being conservative, they merely wish to restore the Cuba that existed before 1959, a giant drug den and brothel for the American super-rich.
Now that there is no longer an Administration full of people who have never recanted their Trotskyism, President Obama ought to lift that blockade.
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Your comment regarding pre-Castro cuba is true albeit without giving the whole pictue. A 1957 Int'l Labour Organisation report noted:
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But there would be none of that under the present Miami lot.
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