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U.S. policy toward Cuba is "an embarrassment and a miserable failure," said Rep. Jim McGovern. Photo: Politician.
U.S. policy toward Cuba is "an embarrassment and a miserable failure," Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) said in an exclusive interview with Belly of the Beast.
The 13-term House Democratic leader said he personally asked President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken to lift Cuba's designation as a state sponsor of terrorism, calling it a "simply political" action.
McGovern called the embargo on Cuba a "double standard" given the U.S.'s extensive trade ties with other communist countries like China and Vietnam, as well as those with human rights abuses like Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
"I want this administration to take some action right now," McGovern said, citing the migrant crisis at the U.S. border with Mexico and the upcoming vote on a bill to codify Cuba's designation as a terrorist into law.
(With information from Belly of The Beast Cuba)