OTHER VIEWS: Minnesota could cash in on Cuba trade
From the editorial: "While Klobuchar’s bill would repeal key provisions that have long been blocking Americans from doing business in Cuba, it wouldn’t overturn portions of law that address human-rights violations there."
Written By:
Duluth News Tribune Editorial Board |
1:00 pm, May 24, 2021
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Minnesota Opinion editorial
DULUTH — In Cuba, beyond the crumbling buildings, poverty, and aging cars and farm equipment and so much else because new anything isn’t available, there’s also this: opportunity for Minnesota, our businesses, and economy.
But only if a trade embargo — a relic of a past reality, enacted 60 years ago in 1961 — is lifted. It would allow business, tourism, and more to flow again between the U.S. and our neighbor just 90 miles to our south.