The University of Utah is regularly bringing over Cubans from the island to talk about the wonders of communism Castro style and of the "abusive" stance of the United States toward it. Will the U. ever invite a Cuban from the exiled community to talk about his side of the story? Not if it doesn't want its bubble burst.

The last guest of the U. was Bernardo Toscano, from the Cuban Interest Section in Washington, D.C., who, as expected, blamed the embargo for all the troubles Cuba is going through.He forgot to mention the following facts:

The embargo was never a problem to Cuba while the former Soviet Union pumped $6 billion to maintain Cuba's disastrous economic developments, because for them it was an espionage base at the shores of the United States.

Gorbachev advised Castro in 1989 to change his ways and get out of the communist mind-set, because there was soon to be no more money coming in. Castro, in his never-ending wisdom, decided to stick with communism. Well, if he thinks that communism is so great, then why does he need the United States, "the revolution's worst enemy," to do business with him? He can do business with anyone in the rest of the world that is willing to give him credit.

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Toscano says, "We want people to understand that the U.S. position is illegal and inhuman." Let's talk about illegal: The intervention of all the American businesses in the island that Castro made in the 1960s, without recompense to the owners, that was illegal. The intervention of all the businesses owned by the Cuban people and any other resident of the island at the time, that was illegal.

The United States has the right to choose with whom it wants to do business, and it chooses not to do business with a country that has no respect for anyone's property or anyone's rights.

Mayra F. Sanchez-Johnson

West Jordan

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