President Bush believes in the right to free speech and Wednesday he announced that soon Americans will be able to send cell phones to Cuba - a country that hasn’t had much progress over the past 50 years.
George W. Bush said
“Cubans are now allowed to purchase mobile phones, DVD players and computers and they have been told that they will be able to purchase toasters and other basic appliances in 2010.”
If the Cuban regime is serious about improving life for the Cuban people, it will take steps necessary to make these changes meaningful. If the Cuban people can be trusted with mobile phones they should be trusted to speak freely in public.”
The new policy that takes affect in a few weeks isn’t a loosening on the trade embargo, but rather a change in US regulations that allows mobile phones to be sent in gift packages. The Cuban regime has yet to decide whether or not they’ll allow these gifts from America. If they allow them, it could be one of the first steps to showing regime change in the country. If not, it’s more of the same for the citizens of Cuba. Repression and human rights violations.
The decision lays in Raul Castro’s and his regimes hands, so we’ll see if he’s interested in change or if he’d rather continue another half century of stagnation.
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