Wrong.
If there could be honest negotiation with Cuba, and open the barriers, I'd agree with you. But Cuba isn't allowing outside investment that will destabilize, or cause disruption, but that reinforces the government control.Yes, Cuba *is too* allowing outside investment! That's what the Helms-Burton Act is all about, remember?
Penalizing third-country companies, or third-countries as a whole for all I know, for... wait for it... yes, exactly: Investing in Cuba.
From what I hear, most of their economy runs on foreign currencies from the "Intourist"-style "special economic zones" (i.e, the grounds around big European- (and Japanese-, etc?) -owned hotel complexes) already.
Which, ironically, would *again* seem to be turning Cubans into a people of busboys, waiters, pimps and hookers to "the white man"... Sure, that may be what some old Americans, and a lot of those idiotic kid-napper wannabe "exile Cubans" (i.e, Hispanic-descended South Floridians) want -- but they better hope the inevitable resentment be directed specifically at the "new Elite" Europeans, then.
Personally, I believe they won't be so bloody petit-maitre about the details, but let you Merkins taste a good share of their frustration at this neo-colonolialism, too. (Which would be doubly ironic, seeing as how, thanks to the Helms-Burton Act, you're innocent this time around -- for *once*!)
So you better hope American money gets in there pretty fast after Fidel puts away the spoon for good, and that they do it *more humbly* than the Big Eurobucks are doing right now, so as to help defuse such tensions. And won't *that* (Merkin Capital having to be -- or at least act -- more humble than us YourPeons, that is) be triply ironic?
