Obama calls for lifting U.S.-Cuba travel limits for family
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Obama calls for lifting U.S.-Cuba travel limits for family
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.
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