Lawmaker sees panel voting to end Cuba travel ban

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Originally Posted by andpeo23

Thanks for posting this, I'll be calling my representatives to voice my support. Besides the obvious benefit of being able to legally purchase CC's (and rum!!), there's another side to the coin. It's obvious the embargo has not achieved it's desired outcome - instead it has simply made the situation for the Cuban people worse.(....)

No, Castro made things worse for the people of Cuba. Not our embargo. They get travel dollars and sales from all over the world and have been for decades, yet most of the people of the country still live in poverty because of their totalitarian government.

Originally Posted by andpeo23

Over the years there have been many authoritarian regimes and all have ended, except the one we put up an embargo against...

Really? ALL of them? When did that happen?