Knowing How to Lose

September 30, 2010


Responding to a tirade in The Huffington Post about Cuban-American Members of Congress, political contributions and the cancellation of today's markup, Ernesto Hernandez Bustos of Penultimos Dias pointedly notes:

"Some people don't know how to lose. If the Cuban-American Members of Congress have succeeded, it's because they do their job well, which is to defend the interests of those that elected them. As regards economic support, why doesn't the analyst mention the business lobby that is in favor of lifting sanctions? Don't they make donations?"

We'd further note that the political contributions of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Farm Bureaus and the multiple trade associations lobbying to unconditionally lift sanctions stymie those of the Cuban-American community.

And shamefully, that business lobby has only one interest in its tireless pursuit of lifting sanctions: profiting from repression.