I love 7 and 8.
Embargo is inhumane? What about Castro? Are we in fact that important in the lives of the Cubans that can openly trade with the REST OF THE WORLD?
Without us, tourism is the #1 industry in Cuba.
Oil? Good reason.
Some folks will just never get it.
Castro's regime does not want relations with the US.
They need to do anything to sabotage that possibility.
If they don't, and US relations are established, they will have succumbed to Yankee Capitalism.
They will see it as failure as their system will in fact crumble.
When this subject last arose not too long ago, the next day, Fidel was inflammatory and declared the US was going to nuke Iran.
Why on Earth would he do that if we are on the brink of re-establishing relations? Well, if you are asking this, you missed the aforementioned point(s).