US Chamber of Commerce wants ties with Cuba

Mexico City News.Net
Friday 5th December, 2008

US business organisations, including the US Chamber of Commerce, have urged president-elect Barack Obama to scrap Washington's 46-year-old economic embargo on Cuba.

In a letter to Mr Obama, the Chamber of Commerce said: “We support the complete removal of all trade and travel restrictions on Cuba.”

Complaining about the restrictions on travel to the communist-ruled island, the organizations said it was 'simply wrong' that US citizens should be free to travel to North Korea or Iran but not to Havana.

Havana in recent months has repeatedly asked the Bush administration to ease travel and remittance restrictions on Cubans living in the US as Cuba struggles to recover from the damage of three hurricanes.

Obama promised during the presidential campaign that he would scrap the regulations, which have sharply limited the ability of Cuban Americans to visit their homeland.

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