50 Years is long enough! Time to end trade and travel restrictions with Cuba!

It’s about time we had a president who has some good old common sense. It is a win-win decision for the Cuban people and our county. NOW LIFT ALL SANCTIONS AGAINST CUBA!!

I agree that we should end the embargo, however only if they are willing to make adjustments to their human rights policies and let political prisoners go. I don’t think we should lift ALL sanctions against Cuba. We should gradually give them the chance with diplomacy and a softer approach, promising to work with the United States in a way that will benefit their people. The people have suffered long enough and need some relief, but we cannot give Castro a platform to say that finally his Communist Dictatorship has been recognized as a success by the United States and thumb his nose at Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush 41, Clinton, and Bush 43. Unless they can demonstrate significant changes, we must not just abandon 50 yrs of US policy. If restrictions are lifted, I would sail my boat to Cuba asap to experience the island before the US profiteers invade and we see a Starbucks and McDonalds on every corner!

I support opening Cuba and abolishing present failed policy. Opening up the closed trade barriers is surely good for all concerned. We must do so on a strict cash basis in order to avoid joining the list of Cuban creditors. The government of the Castro’s owes money everywhere.

Perhaps this action signals a renewed awareness of the importance of better relationships throughout Central and South America. Fort Lauderdale should get ready to participate.

It is about time that we open up the channel for PEACE IN OUR WORLD. Beginning with CUBA is a very good bet for all concerned in furthering connection between people’s and nations.

President Obama has been trying to do what he said that he would do when he traveled around the country to become our President.

Thank you Colonel Earl for this web site. You are to be commended for putting your talents of the TRUTH TO GREAT USE.

Joni Rosenthal
40 Years in Fort Lauderdale

You had me until this one. When the Castro brothers release ALL political prisoners in Cuba, compensate all those who lost property in the Cuban “revolution”, and allow the Cuban people who do not have political connections to travel freely putside Cuba without threat to their families who remain in Cuba, then, AND ONLY THEN will it be time to lift American sanctions on Cuba. Oh, and I almost forgot, free and freely contested elections in Cuba would be nice. And why, if the sanctions are so ineffectual, is Cuba in such a predicament that they even want the US to lift those sanctions.

I get lost in any discussion that indicates the USA has been given the power to determine what form of government shall exist in Cuba. Long ago the folks who “lost” to Fidel left the Island and for the most part settled in and partaken of the fruits of US, European or Canadian citizenship. Those who remained have come to accept the Cuban situation. They are concerned with getting food on the table. A renewed effort to “open” Cuba will help them. There seems to be no need or authority to base US Foreign Policy on what happened 50 years ago. That policy was a proven failure after the first ten years. Wake Up.

It is long pass the time to end all restrictions against the people of Cuba. I believe open dialogue with Cuba as a sovereign nation would accomplish far more than embargoes.We have using all kinds of diplomacy with Russia, why not with Cuba?

I tned to agree with a lot of what you publish but disagree strongly on this one. Unless yuo experience living under a ditartorial regime taht will never let their power go we should not lfit the embargo. The citizens will only have to live many more years on a dictarorship financed with our money.