Cuba Si, Columbia No

Below is an excerpt of a great article from Investor’s Business Daily written yesterday. It depicts how the Obama administration has rewarded Cuba and given the dictatorship a free pass while Columbia, a major U.S. ally, is pushed aside and not rewarded. Please read the rest of the article.

Congress may soften the embargo on communist Cuba soon. But with an authentic ally like Colombia still shut out of a free trade agreement that Congress promised, it sends a hideous message. The $410 billion Omnibus spending bill, now working its way through the Senate for a second time, contains a buried provision to ease U.S. economic sanctions on the island. Cuban-Americans will be given special travel privileges to visit relatives on Cuba, and be able to send unlimited remittances.

Restrictions on food and medicine sales will be dropped, and goods sent to Cuba may even qualify for U.S. trade credits. The Castro dictatorship, which controls all economic activity in Cuba, would no doubt benefit handsomely from this. Fees skimmed from remittances would beef up state coffers by the billions, while trade credits will let Cuba buy our goods with our money. Spies, too, will have a field day with freer travel.

And in return for all this, Castro gives . . . nothing.

Read the rest here: http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=321491293790404

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