Our View: 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.
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News Tribune Editorial Board | 11:00 am, May 24, 2021 ×
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.
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.
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Duluth News Tribune Editorial Board | 1:00 pm, May 24, 2021 ×
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.
Outlook for This Week in the Nation’s Capital
Congress. The House is in a committee work period this week, though the Senate returns today and will resume consideration of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) U.S. Innovation and Competition Act (S. 1260), a broadened bill that includes the Endless Frontier Act and that aims to address the United States’ future competitiveness and economic needs. Hearings for this week include Senate Banking and House Financial Services hearings with the heads of the country’s largest banks, a House Armed Services hearing on national security space programs, a House Energy and Commerce hearing on drinking water legislation, a House Agriculture hearing on nutrition support after the pandemic, a House Science hearing on the science and energy research enterprise, and a House Veterans’ Affairs hearing on VA infrastructure needs.
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 ×
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.
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