why won't we leave cuba aloan what can they do to us it's stupid?
356743
It's a long standing vendetta against Castro? Time to put it to bed. And make it a great vacation spot.\nCastro will be dead in the near future.
597357
right on, hone stand!  Wake up, Amurca! and git a damn passport and use it to go somewhere besides Cancun, which is just an extension of florida, not even close to the "real" mexico.\n\njump a pond, man!  If i could I would make everyone go to Africa for a while for a really real reality check.\n\nBy the way i'm a southerner with a used passport (and it will continue being used) who is disgusted with the way things are in america today, and i'm not alone, we're just really disorganized ond overworked.
934715
Interesting that most who hate America just can not stay out of America. Simple, if  not happy here, just leave. But don’t hate us and take advantage of what our system provides. Freedom and opportunity. Try Cuba or any of the countries that hate America. There you can not even get free access to internet information. What you're doing in this site you can not do in those countries.Those countries don’t have problems with illegal immigration. They usually have to keep their people from leaving to America. We are getting overcrowded with people who can not make it in their countries, yet they come here, work and earn $$ to send back to their country. Hate me, but don’t use me!\nWe provide others oportunities that otherwise they would never have. Nevertheless,because we are able to provide and not beg, others hate us.
931804
lol.   we just attack anybody that doesnt follow our ways huh?  You dont agree with us you die?  We allowed Cuba to stay communist in OUR hemisphere.  This is one of the worst questions I have ever read.
952291
Send EM ALL BACK. DO WHAT WE HAVE TOO . THEY DON'T LIKE US ANYWAY THEY JUST WANT OUR MONEY,FREE HEALTH CARE FREE HOUSING. OH MAN THAT'S JUST WHAT THE LAZY ONES  THAT ARE ALREADY HERE  HAVE .HOW ABOUT THE MEXICAN-AMERICAN WAR II (or dose) WE CAN TAKE THE WHOLE OF NORTH AMERICA AS OUR OWN THEM SHIP EM ALL BACK TO SPAIN THEN THEY CAN REALLY BE HISPANIC .
1129346
You know what, idiot?  It's none of your effing business.  Give you complete details my *ss!\nThose troops are there to p*ss you off.  And they're going to stay there.  Why don't you stop ranting and join your nearest branch of Al Queda?\n\nSee you in my charge at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.  I'll reserve you a cell.
1008102
Because the government allows it.  The lassez faire policies of most administrations tend to let "the market" dictate prices, however the oil companies collude to set prices.\n\nNo, I do not have to move to Cuba.  I can excerise my precious vote.  If enough americans think straight\nin November we might end this nonsense.\n\nThink green, buy hybrids, conserve energy, and save the precious lives of young americans.  Oil is not worth dying for.\n\nBest wishes\n\nAsk the consumer advocate
824020
Yes I agree with you. Cubans can stay in the U.S as long as they reach U.S soil, and no one throws a fuse. Are Canadian borders are left open and no one throws a fuse. But God forbid Mexicans coming over to look for work is a cause for panic.
722024
Threatening to kick their butts if they didn't move thier missles from Cuba was one way.  Building our military was another by U.S. nuclear advantage.  U.S. missile sites in Turkey helped as well.
932735
Sad old man.  I think once Fidel is gone, things between the USA and Cuba will get better.
350466
AFRAID??? Why Should WE Be Afraid???\n\nWE Cant Get Deported, \nBut YOU WILL Be Deported\nOne Way Or Another\n\nHasta La Vista Baybee
1182256
The reason the Treasury Dept. (A.K.A. the U.S. gov't.) spends all this money re the Cuban Problem(?) is quite simple. Castro and his revolution, which laid the groundwork for the betterment of a very poor populace, displaced a cruel, corrupt, vicious and malleable close friend to U.S. interests ( bananas and sugar immediately come to mind) named Batista, the Cuban dictator. Batista was also a crony of the American mobs. (a.k.a. Mafia ). This was their playground which, by extension, meant the playground for American politicians. The problem is that the U.S. gov't. does not dominate Cuba anymore and they don't like that.Doesn't is seem odd that other democratic countries have full relations with Cuba while the U.S. happily welcomes boat load after boatload of less than prime immigrants free access to the U.S. soil just to spite Cuba ; but we have to wonder if this spite has backfired over the last 45 years.
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I hope the answers given by the Americans on here , aren't representative of the views of all Americans. There's got to be SOME Americans who are good guys. \nAs previously mentioned by others, only more eloquently, America invaded and 'stole' this bay about 100 hundred years ago, as it was strategically sited for access to the whole of the Caribbean. (It has carried out this strategy many times since, all over the world). To make it look legal, the US sends Cuba a 'rental cheque' every year, which Cuba has never cashed.\nEffectively, the US are squatters in Cuba, they have no linternationally recognised legal right to be there.
522599
because the USA wont allow it
204544
The real reason is that the government officials want to get elected again, and the minority of U.S. citizins that fled from Cuba will vote for them if they persecute Cuba.\n\nIt is also because people think communism is evil, while I think that it can be good.\n\nPEACE IS COMMING SOON!
112128
The U.S. control of this Cuban territory has never been popular with the Cuban government or the Cuban people. The Cuban government strongly denounces the treaty on grounds that article 52 of the 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties declares a treaty void if its conclusion has been procured by the threat or use of force — in this case by the inclusion, in 1903, of the Platt Amendment in the Cuban Constitution. The United States warned the Cuban Constitutional Convention not to modify the Amendment, and was told U.S. troops would not leave Cuba until its terms had been adopted as a condition for the U.S. to grant independence, making the Geneva Conventions applicable to the 1903/1934 treaty upheld by that Amendment.\n\nThe United States holds that by cashing the first check received in accordance with said treaty, Castro's government effectively ratified the lease, and cannot unilaterally change its mind after the fact on account of political tensions or ideological differences. It further argues that all claims regarding an original violation of sovereignty under the Platt Amendment, and questions of an illegal military occupation, became moot once the new and independent revolutionary government freely reaffirmed the base's legitimacy.
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Americans can travel to Cuba legally if you are a Cuban American, politician, journalist or if you have a research project regarding Cuba.  Others including students, religious groups, and humanitarians can apply for a license from the U.S. Treasury Department Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).\nAny American can go, only Cuban Americans traveling with a Cuban passport need a special visa or stamp in their Cuban passport.