Looks like a bill is floating in the House of Representatives to allow travel to Cuba after a 46 year ban. Here's a link (http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/cuba/sfl-flbcubatravel0210sbfeb10,0,4639522.story) with details.

I hope this passes. It's not the friggin 1960's anymore.

It's not the friggin 1960's anymore.

It is in Cuba

It is in Cuba

I wonder why?

A $20 bill inside your passport when you hand it to the Passport agent almost always keeps them from putting a Cuban stamp in your passport.

A $20 bill inside your passport when you hand it to the Passport agent almost always keeps them from putting a Cuban stamp in your passport.

Yeah, I've heard that too. I'd just hate to get all the way there and have it not work :)

I wonder why?

Because you can't travel to Cuba. It's all your fault.

Cuba was already opened up on "Inside The Actor's Studio".

You're talking about Cuba Gooding Jr., right?

When I saw this thread title I thought it was all about cheap surgery available in Cuba.

I fully expect a PM shortly from someone interested in obtaining Havana Fuego season tickets.

Isn't this something that gets introduced every session? Probably by a Florida congressman from the Miami district?

Actually, the Florida congresspersons from Miami are the most set against opening up our relationship with Cuba. They are still pretty pissed at Castro after all these years.

Lifting the travel ban is only a matter of time.

Actually, the Florida congresspersons from Miami are the most set against opening up our relationship with Cuba. They are still pretty pissed at Castro after all these years.

Lifting the travel ban is only a matter of time.

A few things I see trending in favor of of warming relations with Cuba:

1. Florida has been such a key state, everybody was afraid to alienate the Cuban-American population there. Do the Democrats have the bollocks after some larger victories election-wise to potentially alienate an important demographic in Florida?

2. On the other hand, is the rabidly anti-Castro demographic in Florida declining? The people that came immediately after the Revolution (and are old enough to remember anything) are getting old and dying.

3. Raul Castro is slowly showing he's the more pragmatic of the two Castro's. He's allowing more private land ownership on lands that are otherwise dormant.

It's only a matter of time at this point. I see no sense why it can't be sooner rather than later.

Isn't it mostly the older Cuban-Americans that are against the embargo, with the younger ones willing to see it lifted?

Isn't it mostly the older Cuban-Americans that are against the embargo, with the younger ones willing to see it lifted?


?? You mean older ones are against lifting it?

?? You mean older ones are against lifting it?

Vehemently.

Bush's added restrictions are gone. Raul Castro is willing to put everything on the table (http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jg9MLgTOoKINGqs9S2CWEy4ShF6QD97KD2K00) including human rights and political prisoners. The OAS has a motion on the table to readmit Cuba.

I'm willing to bet that relations with Cuba will continue to cool at such a pace that by the end of Obama's first term the embargo will be completely lifted.

It's just not the same place now that Hyman Roth is gone.