To the editor: There isn’t any good authorities on the earth (witness the poverty and homelessness within the good outdated USA). Nonetheless, in his column, visitor contributor Anthony DePalma avoids the elephant within the room: the U.S. sanctions on the individuals of Cuba, extensively condemned as violating worldwide legislation (“The Cuban individuals’s resilience is a energy but additionally 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 towards the revolution.
Think about if the U.S. imposed comparable strict financial sanctions on Mexico — you’ll probably have tens of thousands and thousands of Mexicans making an attempt to cross the border. Have been the sanctions on Cuba to be lifted, we would see Cuba thrive within the areas of training, medication, agriculture, tourism and infrastructure.
Salvador Jimenez, Los Angeles
