Castro calls for end to US trade embargo



NEW YORK: -- Cuban leader Raul Castro has used his address at the UN to call for the US trade embargo, in place for more than five decades, to be lifted.

He also wants the US to return the military base at Cuba’s Guantanamo Bay and end anti-communist broadcasts to the island.

Havana and Washington earlier this year restored diplomatic relations but issues over human rights remain.

“After 56 years of heroic and selfless resistance by the Cuban people, diplomatic relations were re-established between Cuba and the United States of America. Now, a long and complex process begins toward the normalization of relations that will only be achieved with the end of the economic, commercial and financial blockade,” said President Castro.

Later Castro met with Russia’s President Putin. The two countries have have been close allies since the days of the Cold War and Moscow has criticised the US embargo as an example of unilateral action in violation of the UN charter.

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And not before time.

The US didn't re-open the Embassy out of any empathy for US Citizens. It's all about money and that comes in the form of trade.

The K Street lobbyists are lining up like pigs at the corporate trough.

Free market economy is far from 'Free'

Who cares? Undo the sanctions, let Cuba become the Atlantic darling she was, and everyone makes money. That's much better than killing people for profits.

Obama-Clinton wants to end the embargo just to open Cuban waters to oil corporations, but mostly because its are afraid that Russia and China may be interested in investing in Cuba. The US tourist sector is already making money and making big plans to again convert Cuba in another Las Vegas with open prostitution. The Cuban people deserves better, and I hope that Castro and Cuban politicians will not surrender its country to corruption and easy money, after 56 years of working with ideals and hope. It is very easy, in any country, to corrupt young people ideas with false propaganda and promises of luxury life. The US TV only shows the rich and famous in California...not the million of homeless, and the trashed streets of Detroit. The US TV do not show the daily violence and crime, and the unemployed, that join the military because cannot find better or easier "job".. That is what young Cubans will find in the "land of opportunity"...to finally understand the good its had in its own country.

Cuba is a poor country with poverty and dignity, not with misery. Nobody suffer hunger or sleep on the streets of Cuba, and everybody have free good medical and good education, in one of the safest countries in the world. In the future, with the US "friendship" ? Who knows?

Obama-Clinton wants to end the embargo just to open Cuban waters to oil corporations, but mostly because its are afraid that Russia and China may be interested in investing in Cuba. The US tourist sector is already making money and making big plans to again convert Cuba in another Las Vegas with open prostitution. The Cuban people deserves better, and I hope that Castro and Cuban politicians will not surrender its country to corruption and easy money, after 56 years of working with ideals and hope. It is very easy, in any country, to corrupt young people ideas with false propaganda and promises of luxury life. The US TV only shows the rich and famous in California...not the million of homeless, and the trashed streets of Detroit. The US TV do not show the daily violence and crime, and the unemployed, that join the military because cannot find better or easier "job".. That is what young Cubans will find in the "land of opportunity"...to finally understand the good its had in its own country.

Cuba is a poor country with poverty and dignity, not with misery. Nobody suffer hunger or sleep on the streets of Cuba, and everybody have free good medical and good education, in one of the safest countries in the world. In the future, with the US "friendship" ? Who knows?

If all this is going happen, then surely Cuba could request that the embargo stay in place, no?