I thought the state department would have the last word on this.

The treasury deptartment should have more important things to worry about, given the state of the economy, than what the sugar barons in Florida want.

Opening trade with Cuba would be a win win situation, creating jobs here in the U.S. and tourism dollars in Cuba. 

I think they are afraid about off shoring health care to Cuba will bite into the bottom line here at home.

Yeah, right. Cuba is the threat. What is Cuba’s leading export? Doctors? That’s dangerous. But you can bet that if there’s a brutal fascist military dictatorship somewhere in the world, especially one the US has been funding, you’ll have no trouble traveling there.

That will show those communists,
that we are rather petty and shallow.
What a blow for freedom this is.

Your country did kill Ché, Allende, and many others in the name of freedom, well I think the USA, is deepening the hole where it will fall in some day, maby the people ot the south Americaas give some help, they hate the gringo’s, for steeling their live.

The absurd, insane policy toward Cuba continues for the purpose OF DENYING AMERICANS their constitutional right to travel. It’s called obedience training of the American public by the government.

So preventing Americans from freely traveling to
another nation is preserving freedom, liberty, and
democracy?  Didn’t the Soviet Union prevent it’s
citizens from traveling to where they wanted to go? 
Welcome the United Soviet States of America.

This is an example of how US imperialism works. They can play in North Korea because Kim Jong Il is always going to be seen as a clown, even with nukes. Cuba remains an example of successful defiance of regional US dominance, so it has to continue being blocked.