US Senators Urge End To Cuba Ban, Calling For Washington
Change
International News Updates
01 April 2009
A bipartisan group of US senators
has introduced a bill that would allow US citizens to
travel freely to Cuba.
The US has imposed trade and travel bans on Cuba since
1962, but Democratic Senator Byron Dorgan said this
policy had "failed for 50 years".
Mr Dorgan, one of the bill's sponsors, said he
believed it would win enough votes in the US Congress
to pass.
But Republican Mel Martinez said the US should support
pro-democracy activists, not "the Castro regime".
Mr Dorgan's bill is co-sponsored by senior Republican
Senator Richard Lugar.
A similar bill has been introduced in the House of
Representatives - also with support from members of
both parties.
Call for change
At present, the US only allows its citizens to go to
Cuba if they are journalists or on a humanitarian
mission.
But the BBC's Kim Ghattas in Washington says calls
have been growing for a change in policy.
Business and farm groups, in particular, want to sell
into the Cuban market.
And the Obama administration has already supported
changes making it easier for Cuban-Americans to visit
or send money.
The US began imposing restrictions on Cuba after Fidel
Castro took power in 1959, making it the only
Communist state in the Americas - and a Cold War
flashpoint.
His younger brother, Raul, formally took over the
presidency from him in February last year.
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