US Senators Seek To Lift Trade Embargo On Cuba

A group of U.S. sena
tors proposed legislation on Friday to end the over half-century long trade embargo on Cuba.
According to them, the Freedom to Export to Cuba Act would repeal the 1961 trade embargo.
They said that other laws related to the embargo, restricted trade between the U.S. and Cuba, but would leave in place of human rights provisions.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar, who introduced the legislation, said the measure would end an unsuccessful policy that has disadvantaged U.S. businesses and open new markets for U.S. goods.
Presidents Barack Obama and Raul Castro of Cuba moved in December to restore diplomatic relations, which were severed in 1961.
Obama has said over 50 years of U.S. isolation of Cuba had failed to prompt political change on the communist island off the U.S southern coast.
He announced a series of reforms to U.S. policy and talks to normalise diplomatic relations that began in January.
Meanwhile, only Congress could lift the trade embargo.
Obama, however, urged lawmakers to act, but the move faces an uphill battle from vocal opponents of a change to U.S. Policy.