Obama Considers Easing Cuba Travel Restrictions

easing the travel restrictions is a good start but we should go further. Allow commerce with Cuba and open relations by allowing them to open an embassy in washington. with the going sooner than later Cuba will realize that we don't want their country and the ex-patriot cubans would eventually go back. I ain't got nothing against Cuban immigrants but I am sure that once we get on the good side then the Cuban government would change on it's own like east germany and russia. course that would piss off Chavez and is dictatorship government in Venezuela.

We can travel to Viet Nam, to Japan and Korea. Time to let us travel to Cuba. It is not our job to run any other country but ours and this one is sooooo close to our borders.

Fidel eradicated Aids the same way the U.S. eradicated leprosy and TB - by quarantining the infected!!

If Obama thinks that by letting students, academicians, and researchers visit Cuba, democracy will be advanced, he's under the influence of something stronger than marijuana! How will visits by the selected few give more freedom to the Cuban people? Don't Americans visit Russia and China and aren't those countries still under communist rule? Another ploy by Obama to garner votes from more hispanics !!

When Cuba could come up with 1 billion cubans the way China did, the embargo shall be lifted. China receives favorite nation status in exchanged to American compays doing business in China.

If they eradicated aids in Cuba, I don't think you want to know how they did it.

Rest assured, had Cuba have 1 billion people, the embargo would have been lifted long ago. Think people,think !, China is still the mother-load of Communism, yet our government has embrqased them so that Corporate America can open up their sweat-shops on Chinese shores. Too bad Fidel, you don't have 1 billion plus people so..., corporate America hasn't got a need for you .

If we can still visit/trade with China, the biggest Communist country that still has horrendous human rights violations (Tibet, etc.) then why not Cuba? If we are allowed to visit, tourism would boost their economy and their lives. Time to grow up as Tom said and join the 21st century. Canadians have no trouble visiting Cuba, and neither does any other country in the world.

Im sorry i dont see the good those age old embargo has ever done. Especially in this economic times maybe we should lift them

It is time to end the trade embargoes too. Those have only made it harder for the common man/woman in Cuba. The cold war is over, time to grow up.