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By Manuel E. Yepe

Ethics is not just the policy that governs the United States. Much less its foreign policy.
Almost half a century of harsh cruelty against a small neighboring country for daring to exercise independence and her sovereignty as established by international law, appear to have affected the American national consciousness as an embarrassment.
In each of the last fifteen years the world community represented at the United Nations has almost unanimously condemned officially the economic blockade imposed by the superpower to the island in February 1962. But Washington has been aware of it.
When countless deprivations caused by the blockade increased due to the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the community of European socialist countries, one group of nations with the capacity and willingness to support the Cuban efforts for survival, the United States intensified the fence, with more restrictions on travel, the sending of remittances and agricultural trade.
This led to the crisis of 90, that Cubans identified as "special period", which broke the will to resist of citizenship, but demanded greater sacrifices and a lot of heroism.
Although at all times has been in the United States with sensitivity and talent enough to overcome the relentless media campaign of demonization of the Cuban revolution, especially among intellectuals and the most humble people, we see now that the body gains in sectors broader idea of \u200b\u200ba change in its hostile policy towards Cuba, to the realization that "we could not overcome."
In a paper with his signature appeared in the Miami Herald on March 10, Ambassador Vicki Huddleston, former Head of the Interests of the United States in Cuba in recent months the government of William Clinton and the initial period of the GW Bush Administration, says that if the government of his country "could deal with Cuba - not as a matter of domestic politics, but as between two sovereign states - then resumed official diplomatic relations with exchange of ambassadors and would begin again to talk about issues affecting the welfare and security of both countries, ie, migration, anti-narcotics, health and environment. "
" The more we delay, the more likely it the new Cuban leaders do without us. Within three to five years, Cuba, with the help of outside investors, be exploited deepwater oil and sugar cane ethanol, adding billions in annual revenue, making the island an exporter of energy, "Ms. Huddleston concluded." Leo also
Democratic Senator Byron Dorgan announced that it will promote measures to free U.S. travel to Cuba and to facilitate the delivery of food and medicine. "The embargo did not work 45 years, the Cuban people deserve freedom and I think to open those markets will help that happen," he added.
In the speeches of the leading contenders for nomination as candidates for the presidency in November elections be seen that none recognized dismissed the hostile policy against Cuba and the evils caused the people of the island in the last half century. Even the candidates for the "opposition" Democratic nomination speak out against the cruelest effects of the hostile policy promoted during the administration of George W. Bush, since 2000. Just stay in the provision or not sit down to talk to Cuba, considering that the current policy has not worked well for America.
Recently, 104 lawmakers - including four senators from the two parties that make up the American political system, sent a document to the Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, in which he proposed a change in policy towards Cuba saying they failed efforts by the isolation of the island with an economic embargo that reaches almost half a century.
"For five decades, U.S. policy has tried economic sanctions and isolation to force changes in the government of Cuba. These events show that this policy has not worked, "the lawmakers say in your letter.
"Allies and adversaries have rejected our approach and, conversely, work directly with the Cuban government on diplomatic issues and earn billions of dollars in economic investments on the island, making it even less likely that our sanctions obtain the stated purposes, "they lament.
deplore the congressmen that "... Our policy leaves us without influence at this critical moment, and this does not serve the national interests of the United States or to ordinary Cubans, the intended beneficiaries of our policy."
conclude that "a comprehensive U.S. policy is clearly needed now. This would send a useful signal to the Cuban people that we try to relate to his government a new and positive way, and would give U.S. policy a new reading in many other parts of the region. "
opinion this world should thank American personalities courage to swim against the current in the formal setting so hard to his country, but it is regrettable that there is between the arguments for a policy change even an expression of shame or remorse for the damage human and material have led to a people that has done more than assert its sovereignty and inalienable right to self determination.
is regrettable that are not mentioned as grounds for rectification, the deaths, suffering and frustrations that have led to a people who have made a revolution it must have been bloodless and peaceful, to achieve social justice, economic development and cultural identity fully.
Note: The author is a lawyer, economist and professor at the Institute of International Relations in Havana.