re: #836 SixDegrees

True enough. But lifting the embargo would allow one other element into the country - investment. Cuba used to be rolling in cash thanks to Americans boating over for a couple of days or weeks to play on the beaches and at the casinos. Some of those buildings are still in reasonably good shape. A restoration of a couple of luxury hotels and casinos on beach front property would take a pretty large pile of dough - but there are plenty of investors who are probably champing at the bit at the thought of such a prospect.

I lean that way, philosophically.
HUGE chunk of change would be involved, though at this point of decay.