Human Rights Watch (HRW) has just released an new 123-page report on Cuba focused on its systematic (and often violent) repression of dissent inside the island. In sum, the report calls for a multilateral policy towards Cuba, rejecting the U.S. embargo, and placing maximum pressure [...] Supporters of the U.S. embargo against Cuba have contributed almost $11 million to members of Congress since 2004 in a largely successful effort to block efforts to weaken sanctions against the island, a new report shows.
In several cases, according to the report by the nonpartisan group Public Campaign, members of Congress who had supported [...]
More than 50 House Democrats -- including Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Kendrick Meek, Alcee Hastings and Ron Klein --- sent a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi supporting current Cuba policy, which embargo-supporters say effectively squashes efforts to lift a ban on travel to Cuba.
Arizona Republican Rep. Jeff Flake -- who has long led efforts to lift the embargo against Cuba -- recently spent a week on a deserted island in the Pacific, practicing his survival skills.
That prompted the blog, Capitol Hill Cubans, to posit that the anti-embargo lawmaker was practicing for life on Cuba, [...]
