Better late than much later.
Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, who has been speaking out more and more about liberalizing U.S. policies toward Cuba, has finally become a co-sponsor of the Freedom to Travel to Cuba Act. It’s significant when the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee signs on to a bill that would lift restrictions on travel to Cuba for ALL Americans. Presumably his gesture will be more than noted by fellow members of Congress, Cuban officials and the incrementalists in charge of the Obama Administration’s Cuban policy.
“Studies of change in Eastern and Central Europe find the more outside contact a country has, the more peaceful and durable its democratic transition,” said Kerry in a recent Op/Ed piece to major media outlets.