This week’s recommended blogs #3

• Who controls the world? – A Study on the Complexities of the Global Financial System (Elpidio Valdes)
• Bush’s 4th term (The Internet Post)
• Immigration 105: In the Beginning… (ana ::: opines)
• Gallipoli and the Armenian Genocide (Kiwicommie)
• Vor dem Sturm – Damaskus (Reisedepeschen)

Coming up on Czerulf’s Thoughts

What has Florida to do with the U.S. embargo against Cuba?

Shelves are too large for what they offer in Cuba.

In my recent article 50 years of U.S. embargo against Cuba I tried to give some information about the history of Cuba and how the U.S. embargo came about. I did not however go in too much details regarding the question as to why the embargo is still in place and what does this say about democracy or rather the lack of it. This is the purpose of the following essay.

First we need to take a look at Cuban immigration to the U.S. in terms of numbers and preferred locations. Second, we need to enquire shortly into the U.S. electoral system and its peculiarities. Third, conclusion.