Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Jeff Flake (R-AZ) write in the Miami Herald on the findings of the Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center’s poll on US attitudes towards Cuba:
We are in the fifth decade — more than half a century — of our country’s embargo toward Cuba. During that time the Soviet Union has ceased to exist. Apartheid in South Africa has ended. We have re-established diplomatic relations with the communist governments of China and Vietnam. Still, the United States has refused to reexamine the political and economic embargo on Cuba.
A majority of Americans, including Cuban-Americans, wants to change course. So do we.
A new public opinion poll commissioned by the Atlantic Council’s Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center and carried out by a team of highly respected pollsters from both sides of the aisle shows a stark contrast between current American attitudes and the archaic U.S. embargo.