By LAURA WIDES-MUNOZ | Associated Press
10:40 AM EDT, August 21, 2007
MIAMI - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Tuesday said
the Bush administration blundered by tightening restrictions on
Cuban-Americans who want to visit the island or send money home and
promised to reverse the measures if elected.
The Illinois senator said the restrictions, imposed in 2004, isolated
the communist island from ``the transformative message carried there by
Cuban Americans.'' He promised to grant Cuban exiles unrestricted rights
to visit their families and to send remittances home.
``The primary means we have of encouraging positive change in Cuba today
is to help the Cuban people become less dependent on the Castro regime
in fundamental ways,'' Obama wrote in an op-ed piece published in The
Miami Herald.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/cuba/sfl-821obamacuba,0,1530510.story
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