• We cannot keep doing the same thing and expect a different result. It does not serve America’s interests, or the Cuban people, to try to push Cuba toward collapse. We know from hard-learned experience that it is better to encourage and support reform than to impose policies that will render a country a failed state. We should not allow U.S. sanctions to add to the burden of Cuban citizens we seek to help. Reasons to Re-establish Re-establish diplomatic relations • Our diplomatic relations with Cuba were severed in January of 1961. The President is immediately reopening discussions with Cuba and working to re-establish an embassy in Havana in the next coming months. The U.S. will work with Cuba on matters of mutual concern that advance U.S. national interests, such as migration, counter narcotics, environmental protection, and trafficking in persons, among other issues. • General licenses will be made available for all authorized travelers in 12 existing categories: 1. Family visits 2. Official business of the U.S. government, foreign governments, and certain intergovernmental organizations 3. Journalistic activity 4. Professional research and professional meetings 5. Educational activities 6. Religious activities 7. Public performances, clinics, workshops, athletic and other competitions, and exhibitions 8. Support for the Cuban people 9. Humanitarian projects 10. Activities of private foundations, research, or educational institutions 11. Exportation, importation, or transmission of information or information materials 12. Certain export transactions that may be considered for authorization under existing regulations and guidelines ("Charting a New Course on Cuba.") • America has a history of helping Cuba from the Spanish American War. …show more content…
“A second reason interpretation argues that the United States went to war for humanitarian reasons, that is, to free the Cubans from the horrors of Spanish polices and to give the Cubans democratic institutions. That this initial impulse resulted within ten months in an American protectorate over Cuba and Puerto Rico, annexation of the Philippines, and American participation in quarrels on the main lands of Asia itself, is explained as accidental, or more familiarly, as done in a moment of “aberration” on the part of American policy- makers (pg. 398 para 1).”
• President Franklin D. Roosevelt & Briand Kellogg Peace Pact: “Those who cherish their freedom and recognize and respect the equal right of their neighbors to be free and live in peace must work together for the triumph of law and moral principles in order that peace, justice and confidence may prevail in the world. There must be recognition of the fact that national morality is as vital as private morality….”(pg. 118). • Americas first step to change after the Cuban missile crisis: The U.S. Government will…declare that the United States will respect the integrity of the frontiers of Cuba, its sovereignty, undertakers not to intervene in its domestic affairs, not to invade and not to make its territory available as place d’amres for the invasion of Cuba, and also