|
Growing Numbers of Cuban Americans
Favor Change in US Cuba Policy
Havana
(RHC)-Recent polls have indicated that Cuban
Americans are changing their views regarding US
policy towards Cuba, according to the Charleston
Gazette published on Friday.
The
newspaper adds that certain US politicians have
pandered to right wing Cuban Americans mainly in
Miami. Few have dared to challenge Washington's
blockade against Cuba.
Friday's
editorial pointed out that now a new generation of
Cuban Americans (68 percent) think it should be up
to the Cuban people to determine the future of the
island. Given a choice, 55 percent were ready to
support a more moderate US presidential candidate
who said the blockade has been useless.
Another
survey revealed that a slight majority (55 percent)
of adults in the Cuban American community said that
the 40 year old policy of confrontation between
Cuban émigrés and the Cuban government has been a
failure. A similar part of that community (53
percent) wants to lift
all restrictions on sending remittances to their
relatives on the island.
The
editorial concluded by saying that Washington's
blockade against Cuba has now set a record for
longevity of an ineffective policy. We will applaud,
said the Charleston Gazette, politicians of any
stripe who have the courage to declare the obvious
and work to open travel, communication and trade
with the neighboring island.
|
