Reply #27: Lobbyist Prying Open The Door To Cuba [View All]

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The other side of the coin. Here's a guy who says it right: Some rich Cuban under Batista lost his ranch, so the loser comes to my country and wants the American taxpayer to accomplish what they couldn't.

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TAMPA - Al Fox knows something about contentious issues.

In the 1980s, during the height of the apartheid debate, the Ybor City native was a lobbyist for South Africa. Fox was paid to convince Congress that trade sanctions weren't the best policy.

He was called a racist, a sellout and un-American, comments that made Fox bristle. He says he truly believed extracting corporate money from South Africa would only hurt blacks.

``I learned sanctions do not work. They've never worked,'' Fox says. ``Look at Libya, look at Iraq, and, of course, look at Cuba.''

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