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But...but...they have such AWESOME health care! Why would anyone want to leave Cuba????
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Fidel no longer runs the country. Where have you been? Also what does it have to do with Hugo? Don't you think if the US dropped the economic embargo and the Helms-Burton Act which limits travel restrictions that these players would have never left their families?
Fedel and Hugo are good buddies!

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But...but...they have such AWESOME health care! Why would anyone want to leave Cuba????
YES THEY HAVE EXCELLENT HEALTHCARE!!!!



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...a "defector"

ahhh tovarisch.. come, let us sing La'Internationale and remember the ol'soviet empire days when Russia could still afford to gave handouts to the Cubanos.
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But...but...they have such AWESOME health care! Why would anyone want to leave Cuba????
Because for more than 40 years the US has held an economic embargo over Cuba. Along with this embargo the US has installed the Helms-Burton Act.
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This law has been largely unsuccessful. Every Cuban knows what the U.S. is trying to do, and the Cuban Government has had an easy time blaming the U.S. for its economic troubles. Whether or not this is fair, Cubans have been united more by the Helms-Burton Act than anything else in a long time. Anger at the U.S. has also grown as a result of this act worldwide.
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Seven members of Cuba's under-23 soccer team defected this week after a game against the United States in Florida, The Miami Herald reports.
YES! More illegal aliens. The 12 million undocumented aliens in the USA is not nearly enough.
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YES! More illegal aliens. The 12 million undocumented aliens in the USA is not nearly enough.
Cubans aren't considered illegal aliens. Have you not heard of the Cuban Adjustment Act?
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Because for more than 40 years the US has held an economic embargo over Cuba. Along with this embargo the US has installed the Helms-Burton Act.

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Thoes Evil Americans puting an embargo on a country that let Communist Russia park nukes within firing range of America. What were they thinking!
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Cubans aren't considered illegal aliens. Have you not heard of the Cuban Adjustment Act?

http://www.ailc.com/services/residency/CAA-1.htm

So technically all of cuba can move to the USA. Today.


No questions asked.
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So technically all of cuba can move to the USA. Today.


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Well if they are caught before they reach American soil (real American soil and not Guantanamo) they are shipped back to Cuba.
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