{"id":20699,"date":"2012-04-18T09:48:17","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T13:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=20699"},"modified":"2012-04-18T10:09:13","modified_gmt":"2012-04-18T14:09:13","slug":"u-s-senator-says-its-time-to-open-up-to-cuba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/04\/u-s-senator-says-its-time-to-open-up-to-cuba","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Senator Says It\u2019s Time To Open Up To Cuba"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_20700\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20700\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20700\" title=\"jeff-bingaman\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/jeff-bingaman.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/jeff-bingaman.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/jeff-bingaman-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20700\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">US Senator, Jeff Bingaman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Jeff Bingaman, a U.S. senator from New Mexico and member of the Democratic Party who serves as Chairman of Committee Outreach for the Senate Democratic Caucus, acknowledged on Monday that Washington\u2019s policy towards Cuba is \u2018out of step\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are out of step with our policy with Cuba. It is past time to establish diplomatic relations with Cuba and end the embargo,\u201d Bingaman said.<\/p>\n<p>According to press reports, the Senator noted that the U.S. policy towards Cuba \u201chas been heavily dictated by Cuban Americans while ignoring the example set by other Latin American countries, who openly trade with the communist country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bingaman was reacting to what he regarded as Washington\u2019s isolation during the Sixth Summit of the Americas held over the weekend in Colombia, where all participating countries \u2014except for the U.S. and Canada\u2014 agreed on the need to include Cuba in this regional mechanism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe we are the ones who are out of step in this respect and we should change our policy,\u201d he pointed out.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Democratic leader recognized that, in the face of the upcoming presidential elections of November 6, it is very unlikely that Obama or his Republican opponent \u201ctake a stance that could offend the Cuban-American community in Florida and New Jersey.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Bingaman, a Democratic U.S. senator from New Mexico says that Washington\u2019s policy towards Cuba is \u2018out of step\u2019 and that it is time to establish diplomatic relations with Cuba and end the embargo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,371,168],"class_list":["post-20699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-cuba","tag-economic","tag-politics-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}