You can’t travel there by the US, but you can get there by other means, through other countries.

If no americans are able to go, then how do americans keep getting down there?

Cuba can trade with anyone they like in the entire world. Just not with us. If that harms them, good! Screw ‘em! Maybe the commie goons will be overthrown.

Just don’t expect me to swallow the idea that a unilateral embargo damages them. It ain’t so.

BTW did you check your phone buttons to see what 73223 spells out. There are other meaningless combo’s possible, than the one I have in mind, however.

If that doesn’t work, there are people capable of getting you there free of charge, really. I recommend that you don’t fasten the seat belt. Catapults as I understand them can be a harsh, if not rude awakening. But whatever it takes to remove the blinders, I always say. PULL!

- Bang

Another decent read:
AMERICAN TRADE WITH CUBA:
AN ANALYSIS OF THE CURRENT EMBARGO
AND ITS FUTURE

Reasons behind the Embargo and how it first started:

The process began in the summer of 1960 when the Cuban government ordered two U.S. oil companies, Standard and Texaco, to refine Soviet crude oil at their Cuban refineries, rather than the oil they had been bringing in from their own sources. Not surprisingly, they refused. Also to no one’s surprise, the Cuban response, on July 1 of that year, was to nationalize both companies’ holdings in Cuba. A few days later, the United States retaliated by cutting the Cuban sugar quota, and that led, in August, to Cuba’s nationalization of virtually all U.S. property on the island.

By the end of 1960, this tit-for-tat process had produced an embargo on trade between the countries–one that was expanded to include, by 1962, even food and medicine, and trade between Cuba and U.S. subsidiaries overseas. The latter was a particularly sticky point, for while the United States may consider, say, Ford of Argentina to be a branch of the American company, Argentina considered–and considers–it a company incorporated in Argentina, to be fully subject to local law and trading practices. Efforts by the United States to impose its law and practices on such companies are inevitably resented and seen by the host governments as a violation of their sovereignty. At first, however, given that most of those governments sympathized with the United States against Cuba and even cooperated with the trade embargo, the question was moot. But only for a time.

* First, to punish Cuba for having nationalized our properties without compensation, and
perhaps even to force it into a compensation
agreement.

* Second, to raise the costs to the Soviets, and to the Cubans, of maintaining their alliance and pursuing policies detrimental to U.S. interests.

* Third, to reduce the resources Cuba could pour into assistance to revolutionary movements, especially in Latin America.

None of these objectives was irrational or idle. They were, after all, formulated against the backdrop of the Cold War and Fidel Castro’s vows to turn the Andes into the Sierra Maestra of Latin America; i.e., to spark revolution throughout the southern hemisphere. To defend themselves, the Latin American governments–the targets of this outward thrusting on Castro’s part–stood with us and entered into a multilateral trade embargo against the island. Our policy toward Cuba in those years, then, was not an isolated one; rather, it was endorsed by the Organization of American States (OAS) as a whole.

Read the complete portion here

I hate to say this, but I may be in agreement that the embargo is past its prime. It did not solve anything, especially if its major point was the hopes of the Cuban people to over throw Castro.

The ebargo has been in place for over 40 years, and at this point does not seem to be worth anything.

And don’t say because of trading with communist cuba, we trade with China all the time.

The time for the embargo does seem to be way past due to be lifted or changed.

And look at it from a fresh point of view, it would most likely stop the flow of Cubans fleeing and trying to come illegaly to the US shores. So one could look at this as a benefit to Border Security.

That’s what we would do.

“There you go from Andrew the Cubans are “underemployed and overeducated ” boy the workers paradise (Communism) is really working for Cuba is it Andrew? ”

Underemployed and overeducated doesn’t sound like paradise, not in the macroeconomic sense.