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You Can’t Promote Freedom In Cuba By Denying It To Americans

June 7, 2016

Ricardo Herrero, The Huffington Post

There is no better way to promote openness in Cuba than by allowing everyday Americans to travel freely to the Island and serve as on-the-ground ambassadors of our democratic values.

This would seem obvious to just about any American who ever traveled to a foreign country. Yet as the Freedom to Travel to Cuba Act finally secures bipartisan majority support in the U.S. Senate, pro-embargo lobbyists attempt to quell the momentum by claiming that American visitors only strengthen the Cuban government’s repressive apparatus because many stay in hotels owned by the military.

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