Jan. 16, 2026 7:30 AM PT
To the editor: There isn’t any excellent authorities on the earth (witness the poverty and homelessness within the good previous USA). Nonetheless, in his column, visitor contributor Anthony DePalma avoids the elephant within the room: the U.S. sanctions on the folks of Cuba, widely condemned as violating worldwide legislation (“The Cuban people’s resilience is a strength but also a trap,” Jan. 15).
I concur with DePalma’s reward for the resiliencies of the Cuban folks. As a part of my graduate research, I had the chance to review in Havana in the summertime of 2004 and, within the course of, interviewed dozens of individuals for and towards the revolution.
Think about if the U.S. imposed comparable strict financial sanctions on Mexico — you’d seemingly have tens of hundreds of thousands of Mexicans making an attempt to cross the border. Had been the sanctions on Cuba to be lifted, we would see Cuba thrive within the areas of schooling, drugs, agriculture, tourism and infrastructure.
Salvador Jimenez, Los Angeles
