Why doesn't the US talk to Cuba?

Question

We have this trade embargo on Cuba, that no one else seems to have. Why do we hate Cuba so much? Why aren't people allowed to fly there?

Europe trades with them...why don't we?

BTW is this the political issue with Cuba?

Answer 1

do you know what happened during the cuban missile crisis?

Answer 2

It's a lot of things.  The US backed the other regime before Castro took over and after that they tried to assassinate Castro a number of time over the years.  During the cold war the US and Russia were setting up nuclear missiles all over the world to gain a strategic edge over one another.  The Russian tried to put nuke in Cuba but the US found out and intercepted them and thus leaving the US to stop trade with Cuba.  Here is the hypocrisy, Americans can't vacation in Cuba, or bring Cuban goods to America, but we sell them wheat, beans, corn,..etc.  Now if you are Cuban and you make it to the US shores then you become a US citizen.    

Answer 3

It is leftover from the Cold War, in which the United States instituted an embargo with Cuba after the Cuban Missile Criss.

There is absolutely no reason for there to still be an embargo against Cuba. It should not have existed in the first place, and in any case the Cold War is over. The U.S. has been telling Russia that a lot recently - well maybe they should end the embargo against and show that the Cold War really IS over.

Does Russia have an embargo against Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands, Turkey, Greece, or Canada? No, but we had missiles in all of these countries aimed at Moscow.

Answer 4

Stupid Republican policy.  Carter began to normalize relations, but that ended with Reagan (the catalyst to the deterioration of the U. S. infrastructure . . . the beginning of a generation of neglect)!

Answer 5

It's communism in general, we tend to distance ourselves from it, with Cuba, they allowed the Soviet Union to put nuclear missiles there, right at our back door, and we almost went to war over it, so that has compounded the situation. If Fidel had made an attempt to improve the quality of life in Cuba, or given the people any freedoms, we would have reopened talks with them, as we did with China.