text: I think he is a nice old man ---- I laugh when I think about the US policy towards him - as if Cuba represented any threat to us.  The Cuban people live free from crime and poverty and fear while millions of people die in Africa and we say and do nothing.   It is time to normalize relations with Cuba open the borders and let there be free travel and trade  That alone will surely turn that country into a democracy quicker than the policy we have had for decades