In a letter to the editor, published in The Tribune on Monday, October 15, 2007, the new Cuban Ambassador to The Bahamas, Jose Luis Ponce, is seeking support for Cuba’s annual call at the the United Nations to have the United States drop their economic embargo against their country.

As Luis Garcia points out in his Child of the Revolution weblog, and this post in particular back in October 2006, each year the international press fail to report that:

1. The embargo does not cover food or medicines exported from the US. Thus, the US is now the largest exporter of food to Cuba. That trade alone is worth an estimated $US500 million a year.

2. The Castro regime is and has always been able to trade with any and every other nation in the world, …

While your not so humble blogger does not support the embargo, I can’t see the US lifting it while Fidel is alive, but I guess Mr. Ponce gets paid to spread the Cuban regime’s propaganda.

I just wish someone at the UN would call for Cuba to release their people from the 40 year embargo they have been held under by Fidel and his so called revolution. That would be justice as far as I’m concerned.

To paraphrase Ambrose Bierce from his Devil’s Dictionary, Cuban Politics is the “strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles”.