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"The embargo is absurdly cruel and, like too many other U.S. policies targeting Latin Americans, the cruelty is the point."

Misinformation, fraud, and manipulation try to turn scenarios created in American laboratories into social unrest. Many things are not said about Cuba but without a doubt this one is crucial.

The U.S. embargo, unsupported by any country in the world, harms the nation’s ordinary working people.

Among the accomplishments of the Cuban revolution have been the great strides made in the education of its entire people. Education is completely free from primary school through university. Cuba today has a literacy rate of over 96 percent, putting it at the top of all Latin America. But the struggling economy has not created the kind of economic opportunity that is commensurate with an educated population, particularly in the professions.

We don’t need the empire to give us anything. Our efforts will be legal and peaceful, because our commitment is to peace and fraternity among all human beings who live on this planet.

"To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries."-Aldous Huxley. University of Georgia student Courtney Parker shares impressions of her recent trip to Cuba - one of the legal educational tour programs allowing U.S. citizens to visit neighboring Cuba. Additional post on background of Cuban Travel Ban, and resources on how you can go to Cuba - today, and legally.