Congress and Cuba
Cuba may be a new tourist attraction for many Americans soon. There are 20 senators looking to lift the embargo against Cuba. They see the post-Castro regime coming closer and closer and there could be an opening for freedom there. These senators argue against the original principals that the embargo was supposed to do. The embargo was supposed let communism fail by suppressing trade from the US. Cuba has learned to survive without it. The strategy to suppress totalitarianism by letting Cuban see how we live. Congress has not yet set a date to go over the proposed bill but it could come soon. Pres. Obama could be looking for some changes. During the campaign he suggested that change was a possibility.
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The travel ban for American citizens to enter Cuba directly from US territory has essentially never made sense and has always been contradictory. Although throughout the Cold War we often had trade restrictions or flat out embargoes with many countries in the Eastern Bloc, we never had travel bans to places like Poland, the Czech Republic, or even the Soviet Union. Justification for refusing to trade with Cuba could always be made and still can be made, but justifying not allowing our citizens to go there directly from America remains a tough case to make.
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