There are some serious emotions coming out of the Cuban-American community in the U.S. There is also a lot of misinformation about the embargo reported in the media.  It was never about "regime change."  Instead, it was about making a point regarding the property and investments wrongfully confiscated by the Castro regime. My friend Jorge Ponce came to the U.S. with his parents in the 1960s.  This is what he wrote about the embargo: The purpose of the U.S. embargo is was to penalize the Cuban Government for wrongly appropriating all U.S. interests in Cuba and not offering any compensation to this day. The President did not mention any compensation for these U.S. companies in his remarks. Moreover, the President did not mention any compensation for the families of the U.S. of the Brothers-to-the Rescue pilots who were shot down in international water by Cuban MIG’s in February of 1996. And has the embargo worked?  The...(Read Full Post)