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Following the easing of restrictions on travel and remittances to Cuba by the United States, the pressure continues. Is underway in Congress a bipartisan bill, not just Democrats, to give greater facilities for agricultural exports leaving the embargo in 1962 each year in question, and this week is another initiative in the Senate to try open travel to U.S. citizens.

“The United States companies have to be ready for full market opening, and the Government should further facilitate matters, such as allowing Cuba to buy with credit. This was the main conclusion of the Cuba Trade Expo. Even with all the caveats about the lack of guarantees in a country so special, entrepreneurs and a growing number of lawmakers are all on the same line. The business is looking for more business.

Currently, United States is already the fifth largest trading partner of Cuba with a humanitarian vericueto allowed by President Bill Clinton in 2000: the sale of food with cash. More than $ 700 million business in 2008, new record of hypocrisy. Since leaving Port Everglades from continuously until chicken rice, through all kinds of products in the field of the American heartland. Cuba, allegedly seized, must import more than 80% of foods consumed.

“It’s a shame to do business with a dictatorship that has imprisoned political prisoners” is the argument put forward by advocates of tougher measures against the regime provided for Havana. But the economic momentum seems unstoppable. And any employer that reminds them of the cynicism practiced with China. Business is business, and in current times in which any glimmer of market can be a vital lifeline. It matters little that Cuba is a poor risk as when you are paying and which any of its neighbors it will tour as a potent competitor opened. It is not outlandish theory that changed Havana to Las Vegas for half a century ago and later created many tourism businesses in the Caribbean nobody has opened the island really interested in this revolutionary time. But something else, it seems that already.

Cuba, above ratings or reviews, after half a century revolutionary, has been built and has since set in stone. Hence the last eight presidents in support of visits to the island or the recognition of Costa Rica and El Salvador, the only two countries that Americans were left without diplomatic relations, except the United States in particular. Cuba, without participating, will be the main protagonist of the Summit of the Americas in Trinidad, 17 to April 19, while the EU increasingly flirts with the island, ignoring the dissidents, like everyone else. To the conservative Spanish government of former president José María Aznar has called the end of the embargo without conditions. It did in Madrid, not in Georgetown, just 15 days after he surprised the same idea with Republican Senator Richard Lugar.

A latest survey from the University of Miami, nothing suspicious to the most conservative, which disqualified previous polls results for the first time in favor of lifting the embargo also has significant data tsunami changing. Among 2500 respondents, 56.5% is in agreement with the embargo, but only 22.8% of young people. And I already deleted 43.5% in 2004 in favor of only doing 27%. Groups and institutions want to change course.

Money rules. The recent lifting of restrictions on travel and remittances to Cubans on the island gave a greater role to the Treasury Department that the Government of Barack Obama. Before eased past the George W. Bush was removed from the budget heading to prosecute offenders of the same. Cost savings, not business. Cuba says it expects more changes, but historically and strategically not interested in lifting the embargo or the deletion of the Adjustment Act, which is critical, but it serves as an alibi. You only have enough business to keep the Revolution in endemic crisis. Nothing counterparts.

For something Obama has already received two letters of protest from exile. One of eight congressmen (including the most conservative of Florida) and one of the Cuban American Foundation, warning that the end is going to help Cuba with taxpayers’ money without asking anything in return, neither free nor release of prisoners of conscience.

But the race seems unstoppable. Raúl Castro has closed ranks with the consent of his brother Fidel, even the patriarch of a business that is experiencing a serious economic crisis exacerbated by the hurricanes of 2008. Friends and foes agree that MINFO, the Ministry of the Armed Forces led by Raúl always has been the best runs in the Revolution. Now, try to do the same with the whole country. Methods military medicine. So was surrounded by his faithful, particularly general and vented to the civilians who were not theirs, but his brother, although he did not hesitate to send them to hell to finish with “unworthy”.

“Within the revolution everything, outside the revolution, nothing,” said Fidel to intellectuals in 1961. “Revolution? None of that, kid,” says one former political prisoner. “Do not dare to say the Castro, the owners of Cuba, then and now.” All tied up also with a view to the Sixth Communist Party Congress scheduled for the fourth quarter.

If anyone had any hope of exile for real change on the island, was evaporating when he saw that Fidel is not the summer of 2006, died and rose again and again, while his brother was entrenched in the family succession.

Becomes increasingly stronger theory cubanólogo a pessimist: “When the Army, head of the farm, then a supposed transition countries look the other way so that the generals at the head of departments and companies continue to lead future Body as a sign of strength. shall pay for their services by taking a step without bloodshed and very handy to keep all doing business with the island quickly. ”