I am in agreement with the editorial, “The Cuban trade embargo should go” (July 3), which calls for an end to the U.S. embargo on trade with Cuba. This embargo is causing great hardship to the Cuban people, who have done nothing to offend the people of the United States.
Cuba, until the current crises precipitated by the loss of Soviet and Eastern European trading partners and the tightening of the U.S. blockade, had achieved a higher standard of living than any other Latin American state in areas such as health care, access to education, nutritional level, the fight against racism and equal rights for women.
It is truly shocking that the U.S. maintains its blockade so as to reverse these gains, some of which we have not achieved even in the United States.
