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Judi Lynn

(160,217 posts)
Fri Jun 9, 2017, 11:30 PM Jun 2017

Tell Your Senators: Dont Let Donald Trump Take Our Cuba Policy Backwards


A bipartisan group of senators has introduced a bill that would guarantee Americans the right to travel to Cuba.
By NationAction
YESTERDAY 12:13 PM


 WHAT’S GOING ON?

In late May, the conservative media outlet The Daily Caller reported that President Donald Trump was planning to make good on his campaign promise to “terminate” the Obama administration’s opening of engagement with Cuba. Just two and a half years after the United States finally took steps to end more than a half-century of hostility and restrictions on trade and travel, President Trump wants us to go backward.

 Luckily, there’s some momentum pushing back. Lawmakers in Congress recently reintroduced the Freedom to Travel to Cuba Act (Senate Bill 1287). The bipartisan bill now has 55 cosponsors and would guarantee Americans the right to travel to Cuba.

We need to expand, not contract, our engagement with Cuba. As Peter Kornbluh reported at The Nation, the economic impact of increased restrictions on travel would be dramatic: He cites a study that says the travel industry alone could lose $3.5 billion and over 10,000 jobs. And the damage goes far beyond that, as Kornbluh writes:

 Trump is threatening to undermine years of concerted effort—inside and outside of government—to establish a civil, peaceful coexistence with an island neighbor after more than half a century of intervention, embargoes, and assassination plots. At stake is a model of responsible US foreign policy—to be emulated, not repudiated.

More:
https://www.thenation.com/article/tell-senators-dont-let-donald-trump-take-cuba-policy-backwards/
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Tell Your Senators: Dont Let Donald Trump Take Our Cuba Policy Backwards (Original Post) Judi Lynn Jun 2017 OP
Trump's new Cuba policy: What's at stake for the island? Judi Lynn Jun 2017 #1
Cuba Timmygoat Jun 2017 #2

Judi Lynn

(160,217 posts)
1. Trump's new Cuba policy: What's at stake for the island?
Sat Jun 10, 2017, 01:45 AM
Jun 2017

Trump's new Cuba policy: What's at stake for the island?
By Will Grant
Cuba correspondent, BBC News
3 hours ago


Warmer ties with Cuba after almost 60 years of hostility was one of President Barack Obama's main foreign policy legacies.

He and Cuban leader Raul Castro agreed to normalise diplomatic relations in December 2014 and in August 2015 the US re-opened its embassy in Havana, more than half a century after it had closed following Fidel Castro's Cuban revolution.

Now reports say that President Donald Trump may announce his new Cuba policy as soon as next Friday.

Many are expecting a rollback on the détente including a tightening of the rules on travel and trade eased by the previous administration.

What are the main issues at stake?

More:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-40231074

Timmygoat

(779 posts)
2. Cuba
Sat Jun 10, 2017, 02:08 PM
Jun 2017

I understand Trump made this promise to Marco Rubio in exchange for sticking up for him in the senate enquiry.

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