Dear Mr. Moro:
Thank you for contacting me regarding United States policy toward Cuba. I appreciate the opportunity to respond to your comments.
Since the United States first imposed economic sanctions on Cuba in 1960, our policy has vacillated between loosening and tightening sanctions. While Cuba remains a communist state with a tight control over the political system, Raul Castro’s official assumption of the Cuban presidency in February 2008 has resulted in some limited economic reforms. This is a positive sign, and I believe that the best way to help bring further political and economic changes to Cuba in the long term is to allow more contact between the American people and the Cuban people.
I feel that Congress must act to rescind travel barriers between the United States and Cuba and ease U.S. sanctions that close off potential markets to American farmers and manufacturers while doing little to promote democracy in Cuba.
That is why I am proud to co-sponsor S. 428, the Freedom to Travel to Cuba Act. Introduced by Senator Byron Dorgan on February 12, 2009, this bill would allow U.S. citizens and legal residents to freely travel to and from Cuba. S.428 is now pending in the Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations. Please be assured that as a member of this committee, I will work to pass this legislation in the 111thCongress.
Thank you again for writing to me about this important issue.
Barbara Boxer
United States Senator
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