In my conversations with Cubans, the questions on everybody’s minds were: What’s going to happen when Fidel dies? Will Obama, as he has already alluded to, loosen the tight restraints of the US embargo on Cuba to reverse a long history of nonsensical policies with the island?
Nobody can answer the first question. The second question presents us with a number of interrogantes. Everybody knows that this process must take place slowly, paso a paso. But another point that I heard from a number of Cubans regarding the embargo is that the Cuban government does not want the US to lift trade restrictions. Why? 1) Having a common enemy (the US government) is the greatest way to unite a population. 2) A justification. The Cuban government can always place the blame of all the scarcity that there is on the island onto the US. Therefore, the US can serve as a scapegoat for the failures of the Revolution.
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