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The United States has imposed a trade embargo against Cuba since 1962, but agricultural goods are exempt from the sanctions, and Perdue said relaxing trade barriers further would help everybody.
"I will give them my opinion that I believe a freer trade environment to most countries would be helpful in our diplomatic and political relationships," he said.
The United States is Cuba's leading source of farm products, many of which come from Georgia, which sells poultry and other goods to the island. Its exports to Cuba totaled $42.5 million last year, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Want to break the walls of communism down? expose it to capitalism when the old guard falls things will change.
We have such a distaste for communism yet we trade with China like there is no tomorrow and this small island we ostracize... makes no sense. I'd say normalize relations, and open trading. We probably have more Cubans here than they do. I t is a shame they can't see their family.
Some say of Cuba violates human rights... they arent the only one in that boat and we don't cease trade with the the others
The USA relationship with Cuba just illustrates the almost total failure of American foriegn policy since the end of WW2. It makes no sense, is good for no one and helps prevent meaningful reform in Cuba.
When you study the extent of American foreign policy foolishness you begin to understand just why America is in the mess it is today.
A lot of our policy toward Cuba is based on anger and vengeance - and not even our own anger, to a large extent, but rather, the anger of people who fled Cuba after Batista's fall. That's really the only way to explain the bizarre travel embargo - a measure that is seen as so ineffective it hasn't been replicated with other countries. Not Iran. Not North Korea. Not Burma. Cuba stands alone.
Obviously, Cuban authorities commit human rights abuses and hold political prisoners. But if we're being honest, we'd admit that this isn't much different from the standards of the region. Cuba's neighbor Jamaica launched an operation a couple weeks ago to "arrest a drug dealer" that left 80 civilians dead, and led to (rather substantial) allegations of police executions of unarmed men.
Cuba's neighbor Haiti is notorious for housing prisoners in conditions so dire that many of them die of communicable diseases before reaching trial.
The nearby Dominican Republic has a curious problem with journalists (especially those asking uncomfortable questions to the powerful) mysteriously getting shot by "unknown men" who ride off on motorcycles. And the DR's own prisons aren't a model of human rights, either - a riot and fire killed 140 of them at a single facility a few years ago.
But we don't have people with deep-seated hatred toward the DR or Jamaica or Haiti controlling our policies toward those countries.
If the standard for an embargo was "a human rights situation as bad or worse than Cuba," we'd be embargoing a third or more of all the countries on the planet.
I have to admit, when a country like the United States denies healthcare to its citizens, allowing them to die, and runs a torture camp on the coast of Cuba, I wonder: What exactly is so wrong with Cuba? Who do they torture? What wars have they started?
We have seen the enemy, and he is thee.
Cuba is a prison-island, and like any prison they give the inmates free medical care, not the best care, but its free.
I have to admit, when a country like the United States denies healthcare to its citizens, allowing them to die, and runs a torture camp on the coast of Cuba, I wonder: What exactly is so wrong with Cuba? Who do they torture? What wars have they started?
Cuba is a prison-island, and like any prison they give the inmates free medical care, not the best care, but its free.
You are confusing Guantanamo with Cuba.
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