IS OBAMA GOING TO END THE CUBAN EMBARGO?

Does Barack Obama really want to end the Cuban trade embargo? He claims that he does. Will he be able to? Maybe. It seems as though, however that he will find ending it in it's entirety will be harder than he thinks.

On January 20, 2004 there is a clip of Senator Obama speaking of how we should end the Cuban trade embargo. He says we should end it, "because of what is happening internationally...how do we make sure other countries are providing human rights for their people, a basic structure of government for their people...and the Cuban embargo has failed to provide the source of rising standards of living and has squeezed the innocence in Cuba." Check out the clip for yourself...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ3SVok9g34 . Back in 2004, he was already advocating this. And in recent times, his administration has said that if elected, Barack Obama will lift restrictions that were put in place by the Bush administration. The area he is looking to lift restrictions is in allowing Cuban-Americans to visit their relatives more frequently, as well as ease the restirctions on how much money you can send to relatives in Cuba (which is extremely low). Me as a Cuban-American with all of my family living in Cuba, of course, I love the idea. Can he follow through? I hope so. My family in Cuba is living in a third world country with very limited amounts of food and clothes. It is very sad.

Not only are Cuban-Americans living in America hoping for Obama to bring change to Cuba, Cubans living in Cuba are also very excited to put Obama in office. I found a great video that actually interviewed Cubans living in Cuba... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HURQ1QbCNZc . It is very hard to find interviews done by non-Cubans of actual Cubans. This video explains that the Cuban people have faith in Obama to bring change and to ease restrictions on the trade embargo. Cuba will be a much more beautiful place as it was in the 50s when my parents grew up there. In that time one of Cuba's most famous beaches named "Varadero" was one of the world's most beautiful beaches. There is much beauty, and very compassionate, caring, and smart people living in Cuba. I hope that Obama will keep his word and help bring chang e to the lives of Cubans who have been suffering for a very long time.