To the editor: There isn’t any good authorities on the earth (witness the poverty and homelessness within the good previous USA). Nevertheless, in his column, visitor contributor Anthony DePalma avoids the elephant within the room: the U.S. sanctions on the individuals of Cuba, broadly condemned as violating worldwide regulation (“The Cuban individuals’s resilience is a energy but in addition a entice,” Jan. 15).
I concur with DePalma’s reward for the resiliencies of the Cuban individuals. As a part of my graduate research, I had the chance to check in Havana in the summertime of 2004 and, within the course of, interviewed dozens of individuals for and in opposition to the revolution.
Think about if the U.S. imposed comparable strict financial sanctions on Mexico — you’d possible have tens of hundreds of thousands of Mexicans trying to cross the border. Had been the sanctions on Cuba to be lifted, we would see Cuba thrive within the areas of schooling, drugs, agriculture, tourism and infrastructure.
Salvador Jimenez, Los Angeles
