<story><title>End the U.S. Embargo on Cuba</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/12/opinion/sunday/end-the-us-embargo-on-cuba.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>penprog</author><text>2nd generation Cuban American here. My family has a massive anti-Cuban government sentiment and pretty much all the older Cuban people in Miami feel the same. I don&amp;#x27;t blame them considering most had their homes and belongings taken from them by the current Cuban government.&lt;p&gt;As someone who is a little more removed from the actual suffering Castro caused I believe that if the embargo ended and the US and Cuba began trading again that the regime would lose a lot of strength just from the exchange of culture. Especially since the US and Cuba are such close neighbors.&lt;p&gt;What could possibly happen though is that the regime clamps down completely on trade and all the money being made goes straight to the higher ups in the government. Which is why most Cubans that moved away don&amp;#x27;t want the embargo to end.</text></comment>
<story><title>End the U.S. Embargo on Cuba</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/12/opinion/sunday/end-the-us-embargo-on-cuba.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>atmosx</author><text>One of my best friends went to Cuba this summer. He told me that if you wanna see the &lt;i&gt;real thing&lt;/i&gt; you must go there pretty fast, things are changing, Castro is losing grip and &lt;i&gt;Capitalism&lt;/i&gt; is growing slowly but steadily. Prices have grown and people are ready to embrace foreign investment.&lt;p&gt;I think it&amp;#x27;s a good time to end the embargo, given the fact that even in foreign policy Obama failed to deliver what was expected (in retrospect that nobel prize seems utterly ridiculous), I&amp;#x27;d say that it would add some points to the US president a bold move like that.</text></comment>