Lets keep up the pressure on the Obama Administration. Make phone calls to the White House, sign the Cuba off the terrorist list petition (see link in comments), tell your members of Congress to urge the President to take bold and positive action on Cuba, travel to Cuba yourselves and come home ready to talk about your experience and educate your members of Congress. Then elect new members of Congress who support a huge shift in U.S. policy toward Cuba. We can do this. Supporters of further easing [we say ENDING] the 52-year embargo by executive order see a window of opportunity after the U.S. midterm elections in November, said Carl Meacham, director of the Americas program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. “You’re seeing, slowly but surely, a ratcheting up of the pressure, said Meacham, who served as the senior adviser for Latin America and the Caribbean on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The window for action starts with the election and finishes around the first quarter of 2015. . . . Miriam Leiva [founder of the Ladies in White], a former diplomat during Fidel Castro’s rule whose husband was imprisoned for more than a year before dying in exile last year, said more exchanges will help the Cuban people be better prepared for life on the island after the Castros are gone. “More Americans should come” Leiva said in a May 16 interview in Miami. Cuba is going to change. The government doesn’t want it to undergo great change, but it’s impossible to keep that society closed.”
Posted on: Thu, 29 May 2014 14:11:10 +0000
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