BY: THE HILL
at 1:28 PM april 8, 2011
As we previously posted, the Cuba Study Group's Carlos Saladrigas gave the following quote to the AP yesterday:
"As long as the Cuban economy was a totalitarian economy, the argument for an embargo was that you are hurting the Cuban state. As the Cuban economy becomes directed toward the private economy... then it begs the question as to whether the embargo is really hurting the government or the people."
Just this morning, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton released the State Department's 2010 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices.
The very first sentence of its Cuba section reads:
"Cuba, with a population of approximately 11.4 million, is a totalitarian state led by Raul Castro, who held the positions of chief of state, president of the council of state and council of ministers, and commander in chief of the Revolutionary Armed Forces."
Thus, it begs the question (once again) of Mr. Saladrigas -- if lifting sanctions helps Cuba's totalitarian state, then why are you proposing to do just that?
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