From McClatchy Washington:
WASHINGTON — Throughout his campaign, President-elect Barack Obama said that he'd loosen some restrictions on travel and remittances to Cuba and rebuild the already slight ties to the communist nation cut by the Bush administration.
With an Obama government soon to become reality, many in the U.S. capital are pushing for much more.
The question of what U.S. Cuban policy will look like under Obama has fed one of the moment's biggest foreign-policy debates, and a loose coalition of legislators, free-trade advocates and leftist groups thinks that it has an ally in the president-elect.
Legislators such as Reps. Jo Ann Emerson, R-Mo., and Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., want to pass legislation that would allow all U.S. citizens to travel to Cuba, which would undo prohibitions that the U.S. government has imposed almost continuously since 1962. That embargo prohibits nearly all trade, travel or other types of exchanges with Cuba.
Read more ....
My Comment: The left are going to be disappointed if the U.S. decides to lift the embargo on Cuba. As a Canadian citizen I have been to Cuba a few times for a winter vacation .... it is not the place that a lot of romantics of Cuba, Castro, and Che would like to believe.
Will Obama permit diplomatic relations to commence .... probably .... but the results will not produce what the supporters of Cuba would like to believe will happen.