Misguided obsession

Re the Dec. 26 letter Cuban-American lawmakers punish families: Cuban-American lawmakers punish families because they believe that they are going to get rid of the Castros by starving Cuban society into submission. But many Cubans who held this position now believe that the best way to get rid of them is to try to free Cuban society from the “solitary confinement” they have endured for more than 50 plus years by lifting travel restrictions and gradually easing of the economic embargo. This, they hope, will foster opposition to the Castro regime.

Cuban-American lawmakers are obsessed with Fidel Castro just like politicians in pre-Castro Cuba were obsessed with Fulgencio Batista. Such obsession blocks now, as it blocked then, any alternative or solution to the Cuban problem.

Just like in the ’50s when we thought everything would be fine and dandy once we got rid of Batista, today’s politicians believe that the end of Castro would be the end of Castroism.

Marcelino Vega, Miami

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