There seems to be a belief that if sanctions remain THIS YEAR, regime change will come to Cuba. It didn't work. Well, NEXT YEAR they will, they have to! Repeat for 50 years.

Most people fleeing Cuba blame current regime for their suffering with good reason. So they have a desire to see it overthrown.

Why don't they blame on the oppressive country making the whole south american continent poor?

Nobody made south America poor; like every continent poverty was the natural state. South America just did a worse job at developing the infrastructure, rule of law, institutions and culture necessary to lift itself out of poverty as fast as north America.

With the exception of Argentina, which after WW2 was one of the richest countries in the world, but through bad political choices ended up impoverishing itself.

That quite a wild thing to say about an entire continent whose politics were almost completely manipulated by some 2 powerful countries after WW2.

> which after WW2 was one of the richest countries in the world

Oh yeah, I wonder what changed then.

Idle thought - I wonder how much the German contingent had to do with these choices.

If you have any desire to not be remarkably ignorant of 20th century history, I’d suggest spending a few minutes reading about who in North America did a bunch of coups and otherwise created the conditions for a lack of rule of law in South America.

It's entirely their fault if the CIA keeps giving money to terrorists. No other country is involved with that.

What does South America have to do with Cuba? And why do you assume that South America is poor? Much of South America enjoys a high standard of living, and is nowhere near as poor as most of Central America, for example, and definitely much richer than Africa.

I'm surprised at this take. It seems readily apparent that Cuban exiles want their countrymen and women to be free from state communist control and have the ability to speak their mind, practice economic freedom and their religion, which is I understand is very Catholic from Spanish influences. I don't know how you can say Cuban exiles want the people they left behind to suffer.

I am saying that because the sanctions haven't achieved anything positive for the last decades. At some point people just have to admit that they don't work but cause a lot of suffering. I bet if the US traded with Cuba, the communist regime would quickly fall apart like the Eastern block did.

That's right. US trade with China has exploded in the last couple of decades and China's communist regime is falling apart quickly.

I wouldn’t call China a communist regime. They are highly capitalist. What’s communist about China other than the name of the party?

The lifetime dictatorship like any other communist nations in the world.

People who left want to put pressure on the government that they hate and they don’t mind sanctioning the people to do it.