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Originally Posted by Wildbore
This will change nothing.
The US isolation of cuba is not really a practical policy. It has had little to no effect on the regime, and it has probably cost the people of that country a whole lot more.
The current policy exists for mainly symbolic reasons, of the US not wanting to feel like it conceded to a Soviet hold-out, and it will probably stay that way until communism is abolished in favour of liberal democracy. But in reality, the USA trades with dictators from east to west, no one would really care if Cuba was added to the list. It might even speed up democratization, it certainly wouldn't hurt.
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Cuba remains one of the worst communist dictatorships left in the world - only North Korea is worse. While the US has sought to isolate this regime, Canadians smoke their cigars and lay on their beaches sunning themselves, while cuban democrats languish in castro's prisons.