>>The U.S. embargo forced Cuba to pay higher transportation costs to import medical supplies from Soviet-bloc countries. Once the Soviet bloc collapsed, Washington further tightened the embargo through the Torricelli Bill of 1992, which bars U.S. subsidiaries in other countries from trading with Cuba and forbids US portage for 6 months to any ship that has docked in Cuba. As a result, in 1993 Cuba's imports for public health cost an extra $45 million. ..."
If that is not fanaticism, I don't know what is ... but I suppose it is right to punish those tyrannical Cubans ... let's instead hug the Indonesians and sell them arms and train their troops to show we are not bitter about the quarter-million people they slaughtered in Timor and are still slaughtering in Aceh and other parts of Indonesia ..... Rui ________________________________________________ Rui Correia Advocacy, Media and Language Consultant 38 Finch St, Ontdekkers Park, Roodepoort, Johannesburg, South Africa Tel/ Fax (+27-11) 766-4336 Cell (+27) (0) 83-368-1214 "Quando a verdade é substituída pelo silêncio, o silêncio é uma mentira" - Yevgeny Yevtushenko "When truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie" - Yevgeny Yevtushenko
