Repealing the Cuban Embargo: A Cost Free Way to Boost Our Nation's Economy

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Repealing the Cuban Embargo: A Cost Free Way to Boost Our Nation's Economy

http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/analysis/533

A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS
by Meg White

On Monday, the Brookings Institution, a Washington D.C.- based public policy think tank, recommended the United States reconsider the embargo against Cuba in some truly major ways. The recommendations came in a report titled "Re-Thinking U.S.-Latin American Relations" (click here to view the full report).

The report makes the pragmatic and humanitarian arguments that have been common talking points from anti-embargo thinkers for decades: There's no evidence of Cuba harboring terrorists, so why should they suffer the ignominy of being on the State Department's list of state sponsors of terrorism? The U.S. is already Cuba's fourth-largest trade partner; why not expand? Lifting travel restrictions would promote mutual understanding with geographically close neighbors.