Awaiting disaster

Re the Dec. 21 story, Coast Guard to monitor Cuban offshore drilling: Cuba has contracted with a Spanish company to begin ocean drilling for oil 70 miles south of Key West. If we had normal relations with Cuba, U.S. companies would be in a perfect position to have a joint venture with the Cuban government in its oil explorations, and the drilling would be done in accordance with EPA regulations.

Instead we are busy developing contingency plans in case we have to deal with an oil spill and will probably end up paying for a cleanup. By caving in to pressure groups to enforce a policy of isolation since the 1960s, the people of Cuba have suffered, not the regime. Fidel Castro and the leaders that replaced him have justified their existence because of the conflict with the United States. Ten years of normalization would have accomplished more than 50 years of isolation.

Judith Berson, Miami Beach

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