Overturning Cuba Travel Ban

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Originally Posted by 2000ARMY

Tourism and visiting family are 2 different situations.

True.
Unfortunately, I think the only way for me to be able travel there as an American, with a US Passport and not a Cuban Passport, to visit family, is for any American to also be able to travel as a tourist.
I sincerely and realistically doubt the two will not go hand in hand.

At one time, I was at the total end of the spectrum on this issue, in spite of family there. I didn't think this should ever happen. Then, I got older. I hit 50. Then I got to see my homeland from 12 miles away, while on my way to Cozumel on a cruise. I got to stand on that deck and cry like a baby, looking at my wife and her tears, as just over the hills we were seeing, was her dad and where she grew up, right in Pinar del Rio, the area we all treasure for the leaves. I have slowly realized this life is not very long. My heart has opened and my perspectives have changed. I now wonder why, if one builds a dam out of dirt, that never works, that always allows water in to flood you, why would you keep feverishly working on it for 50 years? Why wouldn't you seek alternatives to that dirt dam?

This dam has been flooding for 50 years. Time to look at an alternative. Time to see one's birthplace. Time for hugs and tears with lost loved ones. Time to stock their shelves with goods and make them wonder how they can buy them. Cubans have a history of having brought some great minds to this world. They will figure it all out real fast.

I truly respect your viewpoint and hope no one sees this as anything else than a perspective from someone whose heart has recently transitioned and feels a grave pain and void.