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The political and social situation in Cuba is hard to understand without a sufficiently broad sociocultural or historical perspective.
Today’s Cuban ‘socialism’ cannot be exported beyond the island’s shores. The Cuban threat, moreover, may have been very real in the 1960s, when at one point Soviet missiles were trained on Cuba’s powerful neighbour, but it is now no more than a fiction, a pretext justifying a political confrontation. That confrontation is at its most bitter between Cubans living in Cuba, who defend Castro’s regime, and Cuban exiles in the United States, who exert considerable sway over the Bush Administration.
An EU presence in Cuba is indispensable for monitoring how the Cuban political regime really operates, and to what extent it is hampered by a commercial blockade which has tragic effects on the people while, in some ways, supporting and sustaining the dictatorship. Even now, after the Cuban dictator took advantage of 26 July to blast European policy, it cannot be said that every door has been closed or every possibility exhausted. The stance adopted in Parliament by Commissioner Nielson on behalf of the Commission is, therefore, justified.
Since I am in agreement with the resolution’s main points but feel it does not go far enough, I abstained from voting on it."@en1
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