Dodd: end Cuban embargo

CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) -- Presidential hopeful Chris Dodd would end a decades-old trade embargo with Cuba and lift travel restrictions to the island if elected, he said Saturday.The Democratic senator from Connecticut also said he would open an embassy in Havana and shut down TV Marti, a U.S. government-run television station that broadcasts to Cuba."Other than the war in Iraq, no other American policy is more broadly unpopular internationally," Dodd said of the United States' policy toward Cuba.

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Agree!!

Dodd is amazing! I hope he speaks spanish at tonight's debate. I hear it's better than Richardson's!

Since we have trade agreements with other communist countries, I think the continued embargo on Cuba is a farce. And yes, I am a Republican.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

of course!!

when F and R die, we will find ourselves with ABSOLUTELY NO LEVERAGE with whomever becomes the new leader in cuba

this policy was STOOPID when it was instituted nearly forty years ago and continues to be profoundly STOOPID

of coure, that is why it is so attractive to the piglicans and their pathetic, mindless droids!!

Of course it was "stoopid". It was instituted by the chearer Kennedy and perpetrated by the genius of the VietNam war, Johnson. Both Democrats.

The last 40 years of Cuba policy pandered to the Miami Cubans for right wing votes.These policies failed miserably..Dobb is correct .But the /GOP was successful in keeping Castro in power and Keeping control of Florida.

[Jason Lentz]

Let us not forget that among the reasons for the institution of the embargo is Cuba's resistance to the exploits of U.S. Corporate interests, much like the situation in Venezuela. All of the successive U.S. regimes care not about human rights abuses, perceived or not, only about open doors to unadulterated capitalism.

Jason,

Did the USSR care about human rights abuses as they subsidized the Cuban economy for three decades? No, in fact they exacerbated the situation just as they did in Eastern Europe, Asia, and in their own homeland. And for what?