U.S. congressman appeals for change in Cuba policy

[Judi Lynn]

U.S. congressman appeals for change in Cuba policy
Mar 19,2014

HAVANA, March 18 (Xinhua) -- Visiting U.S. Democratic Congressman James McGovern on Tuesday urged the U.S. government to normalize relations with Cuba and called on President Barack Obama to change its policy toward the island country.

"I cannot imagine that there is any reason in the world why the United States and Cuba cannot have normal relations ," McGovern told reporters in Havana.

The Massachusetts Democrat, along with a delegation of the U.S. Finca Vigia Foundation, traveled to the island to renew an agreement with the Council of Cultural Heritage of Cuba to preserve the legacy of the American writer Ernest Hemingway in the Caribbean nation.

He visited Hemingway's former home, Finca Vigia, outside the Cuban capital, which now houses a museum.

"I keep urging President Obama to change policy," said McGovern, adding that the U.S. government should remove travel restrictions and begin to normalize trade relations between the two countries.

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[Mika]

1. Music to Diaz Balart and Ros Lehtinen's ears.

They love a push for normalization like this.
Now, they'll be campaigning on this in Miami, and elsewhere the business interests are in line w/them, and they'll raise much more campaign cash than if there were no push. And vice verse for pro normalization pols.
Washington - where one kleptocratic hand washes the other.