# Why does the US not recognize Cuba? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 23, 2003, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-the-us-not-recognize-cuba/220740 "2003-12-23T23:06:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![moriah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@moriah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moriah)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2003, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-the-us-not-recognize-cuba/220740/21 "2003-12-27T01:07:14Z")
While not making a case whether it should still matter or not, but, when Communism took over, many American interests lost their holdings – commercial and private – in Cuba without any compensation. One of the major concerns of those who left or were forced out of Cuba is that they want their property back. Of course, a parallel exists with the communist government in China, and the official U.S. government has ignored that issue. Peace. ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Tan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/charlie_tan/32/12582_2.png) [@Charlie\_Tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Tan)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2003, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-the-us-not-recognize-cuba/220740/22 "2003-12-27T01:33:57Z")
[IMHO] And, for those with serious cash to spend, now is the time to buy beach front property on Cuba. Once ‘the Beard’ is gone, American tourism will boom. China might suck when it comes to human rights, but while still being a (nominal communism) dictatorship, it’s growing more capitalistic every minute. Rather than having an embargo, it would be more efficient to subvert Cuba by TCB. [/IMHO] ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2003, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-the-us-not-recognize-cuba/220740/23 "2003-12-27T01:44:48Z")
Cuba has (or had) some of the premier bonefishing flats in the hemisphere. I can’t wait. ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2003, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-the-us-not-recognize-cuba/220740/24 "2003-12-27T01:46:08Z")
Sorry to piss on the BBQ, but Cuba has already got the reuptation here of being ‘touristy’, and there’s ways to ‘escape the usual traps’, and _heaven forbid_ ‘avoid the americans’ 😛 ---
**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2003, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-the-us-not-recognize-cuba/220740/25 "2003-12-27T04:56:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by The Gaspode \* > \*\*[IMHO] > And, for those with serious cash to spend, now is the time to buy beach front property on Cuba. Once ‘the Beard’ is gone, American tourism will boom. > > China might suck when it comes to human rights, but while still being a (nominal communism) dictatorship, it’s growing more capitalistic every minute. Rather than having an embargo, it would be more efficient to subvert Cuba by TCB. > [/IMHO] \*\* I do not believe real estate is for sale in Cuba to anybody, much less foreigners. OTOH, in China you can buy as much as you can afford. ---
**Author:** ![bayonet1976](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/77aa72/32.png) [@bayonet1976](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bayonet1976)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2003, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-the-us-not-recognize-cuba/220740/26 "2003-12-29T13:50:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by sailor \* > \*\*I do not believe real estate is for sale in Cuba to anybody, much less foreigners. OTOH, in China you can buy as much as you can afford. \*\* **sailor** is correct. For a while foreigners could buy a condo in Havana, well not buy, more like an extended version on timeshare, since you’d never own the condo or sublet it, and the payments went on forever. But that operation was suspended without warning or reason given. I’m pretty sure the condos were never finished and anyone who had given down payments lost their money. ---
**Author:** ![bayonet1976](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/77aa72/32.png) [@bayonet1976](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bayonet1976)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2003, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-the-us-not-recognize-cuba/220740/27 "2003-12-29T13:55:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by AskNott \* > \*\*Any group of a few thousand dedicated, hardcore Republican voters in Florida can rightly claim to have put G.W. Bush in the White House. The Cubano-Americanos are one such group, and we’re unlikely to see any change in the US-Cuba position as long as Mr. Bush remains there. \*\* I’m not going to argue that Cuban-Americans have no political power, or that they don’t lean mostly Republican, both are true. However Helms-Burton, the toughest tightening of the Cuban embargo law was signed into law by Bill Clinton. Bush has actually opened up trade to Cuba more than any other president, by allowing farm products and medicines to be sold directly to the Cuban government, for cash only. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-the-us-not-recognize-cuba/220740.md?page=1)