Restore the rights of all Americans to travel to Cuba.

Agree. Americans have the right to travel freely.

I want to go HOME and visit my parents before its too late! This is long overdue.

It’s outrageous that this restriction has been in place for so long. It’s bonkers. US foreign policy has been written largely by lunatics. This must stop!

It is decades past the time that we should have normalized relations with Cuba. If we were able to get over it and have normal relations with Russia 30 years (and they were the ones sending the missiles), then isn’t it time to stop punishing innocent people for a war that never took place!

We have relations with Communist China and made no demands that they have “free and fair elections” before we had trade — and look how far they have come in 30 years in terms of economic development and increased freedoms for their people.

There are many Cuban-Americans who have been separated from their families and whose families are paying the price every day for a stubborn, uninformed foreign policy from the 1960’s. There are so many families who have suffered from the pain of separation for all these years — it is way past time to make it right.

China killed dozens of protesting monks last year and our President rewarded them by attending the opening of their Olympics. Cuban human rights violations are not as serious as of the violations of most of our allies. Cuba’s sovereignty must be respected and the cold war tactics that has caused so much suffering in Cuba during the past fifty years most end.

It is obvious that the embargo has only hurt the people of Cuba and not the government of Cuba; They are still in power you know. On the other hand, you have families of the common people that have been broken up and not seen each other for years. Be real, you are not hurting the Castro regime. You have many cuban american and US citizens who want to visit Cuba. Give one good reason why citizens are not allow to visit there. Or, are we just feeding into the especial interest of a few politicians?

My daughter, an American citizen, is married to a Cuban legal resident. Why can’t my wife and I visit his parents in Cuba? For that matter, why can’t they visit us here?

Better political relations begin with better human relations.

Not that I have any desire to travel to this Socialist Hell-Hole, but I don’t see any authority in the US Constitution for the Federal Government to tell me where I can and cannot travel too.

I agree that it is time to ‘get over it’ and normalize relations with cuba. Expat cubans in the US have driven this policy based on revenge. Hello, it’s not working. Maybe normalized relations will lead eventually to an increase in Cuba’s wealth, and from that, maybe some reparations to the expats. Maybe an apology like post-war Germany? Honestly, what is to be gained from staying completely out of the process? Communism was just a delusional ideology similiar to the neo-conservatism we’ve suffered these last 30 years. Everybody makes mistakes, and the people end up with the government they deserve. In their case, dictatorship. In ours, oligarchy. Who are we to throw stones?

The embargo and the travel ban was put in place to create a change in the Cuban government. I think it is safe to say, after 50 years of employing the same ineffective strategy, that the US needs to try something else. I can certainly appreciate why the strategy was employed and the idea that it would choke the government. It isn’t as if it was a poor choice, but at the end of the day it hasn’t resulted in the people taking back their government. It is now time that we try another strategy. With American’s freely traveling to Cuba, it will be impossible to stop the free flow of ideas and ultimately the Cuban people will realize that they deserve more. I would expect to see the Cuban government pressured into a full on state sponsored capitalism model within 3 years of the travel ban being lifted. Obviously, total freedom is the goal but I think that it has been far underestimated the effect that the US travel ban could have on creating the change within the Cuban government.