Book Review

The conflicts between Cuba and the U.S. began more than 200 years ago; but this confrontation never was between the people of the United State and the people of Cuba. During the last century among American people, and in the U.S. Congress, there was support for the independence of Cuba. Today the majority of the people supported the return of “Elian” to Cuba. Today many businessmen and regular citizens of the United States disagree with the U.S. government policy of the blockade toward Cuba. But today Cuba is the only blockaded country in the world because of the last actions in the US toward Cuba. In the last years there has been no flexibility in the blockade, but a rather reinforcement of the blockade toward the island. The intention of the Congress to partially lighten the food and medicine blockade was manipulated for the extreme benefit of the US Congress.

There is now a new prohibition in the law that prohibits the American people to go to Cuba as tourists. Historically, US government prohibited spending money in Cuba; but now it is prohibited that American citizens travel to Cuba as tourists, an action against the constitutional rights of the American citizen. The Republican leadership and the representatives of the right wing of the Cuban-American community in Congress, such as Ileana Ross, Lincoln Diaz-Balant and Bob Menendez, considered these actions against Cuba as a victory. This group is the same one that supported the kidnapping of “Elian Gonzalez” here in the United States and manipulated the congressional process of legislation. In Cuba we call it “the mafia” of Miami. The “mafia” is not a simple. It is a political concept. They are a mafia because of their methods: corruption, bribery, illegal actions. The people of the U.S. had the opportunity to ...