U.S. Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy.
Washington, December 8 (RHC)--U.S. Democratic Senators Patrick Leahy and Ron Wyden, as well as Representative Jim McGovern, demanded that the White House change its current hostile policy towards Cuba.
"As someone who has observed the evolution of U.S.-Cuba relations for nearly 50 years, I find the situation between our two countries today baffling, tragic, and downright infuriating," Leahy said.
The 81-year-old legislator acknowledged that six decades of sanctions, isolation, and threats did not achieve any strategic objective for Washington and assured that the policy of President Joe Biden's administration was dictated by a small electorate opposed to good bilateral relations.
In a speech in the Senate, the senator referred to the hindering of family remittances to the island and the end of cultural, educational, and scientific exchanges, the latter clearly timely in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic.
U.S. policy towards Cuba is full of contradictions, hypocrisy, arrogance, and missed opportunities, Leahy said and suggested to Biden that, instead of clinging to a failed policy that has made things worse for the Cuban people, he should be guided what is in the US national interest," said the veteran lawmaker.
Following his statement, other members of Congress expressed their agreement with that position on social media.
A meaningful diplomatic engagement with Cuba is in the best interest of the Cuban people and U.S. national security, wrote Democratic Senator Ron Wyden on Twitter.
On the same social media network, Representative Jim McGovern stressed that the U.S. government, now headed by someone from his own Democratic Party, is clinging to the same failed policies on Cuba over and over again, expecting different results.
During his campaign, Biden promised to reverse the sanctions imposed by his predecessor that tightened the blockade on the island. However, almost a year after arriving at the Oval Office, Trump's 243 measures remain intact despite the claims inside and outside his country.
