U.S.: Another Presidential Candidate Supports Cuba Travel Project
Aug 2 (Prensa Latina) The bill recently introduced in the U.S. Upper House to remove restrictions for Americans to travel to Cuba today has a new co-sponsor, Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker.
The initiative, presented last Monday by a bipartisan group of 46 of the 100 members of the Senate, would put an end to travel bans to the island imposed under 1996 and 2000 regulations on U.S. citizens and legal residents in this country.
In addition, it would eliminate the obstacles that prevent transactions related to visits to the Caribbean nation, including banking.
Patrick Leahy, who said in a statement that the proposal aims to allow Americans to visit the Caribbean nation in the same way they can go to any other country in the world, except the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
Engage Cuba, a coalition that promotes the lifting of the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States on the neighboring country almost 60 years ago, announced on Twitter the news that Booker joined the rest of the co-sponsors of the legislative proposal.
Big news: Thanks to Cory Booker for becoming the 47th co-sponsor of the bill to lift all restrictions on Americans to travel to Cuba. Thank you for your support! Special thanks to Senator Leahy for his leadership, said the group tweet.
For his part, James Williams, the president of Engange Cuba, highlighted on that same platform that with Booker’s support for the bill, each of the more than 20 Democratic candidates for the U.S. presidency publicly backs a policy of rapprochement with the largest of the Antilles.
In addition, the co-sponsorship of the senator from New Jersey to the regulation, baptized as the Law of Freedom for the Americans to travel to Cuba 2019, means that this bill has the approval of the seven members of the Upper House that aspire to the White House.
The senators seeking the Democratic Party’s nomination for the November 2020 presidential elections, in addition to Booker, are Elizabeth Warren (Massachusetts), Bernie Sanders (Vermont), Kamala Harris (California), Kirsten Gillibrand (New York), Michael Bennet (Colorado) and Amy Klobuchar (Minnesota).
The Cuban travel bill introduced in the Senate followed the introduction of an identical initiative on July 25 in the House of Representatives, which was also the result of a bipartisan effort led by Jim McGovern (Democrat) and Tom Emmer (Republican).
Written by Radio Grito de Baire
