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UNITED STATES AGRICULTURE COALITION FOR CUBA ENCOURAGES BIDEN ADMINISTRATION TO IMPROVE U.S. / CUBA AGRICULTURE RELATIONS

For Immediate Release January 14, 2021

Contact: Paul Johnson Phone: 773-814-2493; Email: usagcoalitionforcuba@gmail.com

Original Letter: USACC

United States Agriculture Coalition for Cuba Encourages Biden Administration to Improve U.S. / Cuba Agriculture Relations

The United States Agriculture Coalition for Cuba (USACC) today wrote to President-Elect Biden to urge a return to policies of engagement toward Cuba, for the sake of the U.S. national interest, to boost U.S. food exports to Cuba, and to support the development of beneficial relations between our countries’ agricultural sectors.

The text of the letter follows:

Dear Mr. President-Elect: The undersigned members of the U.S. Agriculture Coalition for Cuba congratulate you on your election victory and wish you every success in office.

We would like to offer our views on U.S. relations with our neighbors in Cuba.

We share your view that six decades of economic sanctions against Cuba have been ineffectual. Our sanctions hurt the Cuban people, limit American influence in Cuba, and antagonize friends and allies, while doing nothing to advance any U.S. interest.

A turn to policies of engagement will serve our national interest and benefit U.S. agriculture, which has long practiced many forms of engagement on a global scale. Freed of restrictions, we expect that ties between our agricultural sectors will produce important economic and humanitarian benefits and contribute to better relations between our peoples and governments. American strength in agricultural exports has been built over the years on the principle that all markets matter.

Cuba is an opportunity for U.S. farmers and ranchers: it imports $2 billion in food each year, less than ten percent from the United States. U.S. exports of potatoes, wheat, animal feed, dairy, poultry, rice, and other products stand to grow significantly.

U.S. farmers, businesses, private organizations, NGOs, and universities can work with Cuban counterparts on the challenges of increasing productivity, adapting to climate change, and building sound commercial strategies.

With Cuba now allowing its private sector to import and export, and also inviting foreign investment in private farm cooperatives, the opportunities for Americans to assist in the growth of that private sector have expanded

We offer these recommendations.

First, we urge you to resume efforts to normalize relations. We hope you make clear that neither our principles nor our interests are served by harming the Cuban economy and increasing hardship for the eleven million neighbors who live in it. We urge you to inform Congress that your Administration would welcome legislation to end the embargo entirely, should Congress choose to act.

Second, we urge early action to restore the Cuban Asset Control Regulations to those in place January 20, 2017 and to suspend Title III of the Helms-Burton Act of 1996. These regulatory steps are important to U.S. agriculture, to business generally, and to any Americans seeking to make a positive difference. Recent experience shows that U.S. travelers propel growth across Cuba’s private sector, benefiting many thousands of Cuban families.

Third, we urge you to support legislation to put U.S. exporters on an equal footing with our competitors by allowing us to negotiate trade terms including private financial credit.

Fourth, we urge resuming full operation of our Embassy in Havana as health considerations permit. The lack of consular and other operations impedes travel, business, and effective diplomacy. A full Embassy staff, which we hope will include U.S. Department of Agriculture personnel, can support continued work on the 2016 agriculture memoranda of understanding, especially in plant and animal health, and to create conditions for two-way trade, including Cuban exports. American agriculture supports a Cuba policy based on our broad national interests, enabling citizens and business across our country to engage freely.

We are confident that such a course will have strong bipartisan support, and we urge you to take it.

We appreciate your consideration of our views.

Sincerely,

 USA Rice Federation

National Corn Growers Association

American Soybean Association

US Grains Council

U.S. Wheat Associates

National Sorghum Producers

National Potato Council

National Association of Wheat Growers

National Onion Association

National Turkey Federation

US Dry Bean Council

Keesling Farms-Chase,

Kansas Isbell Farms-England,

 Arkansas American Feed Industry

Michigan Agri-Business Association

 Minnesota Department of Agriculture

 Virginia Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services

Iowa Corn Growers Association

Cultivating New Frontiers in Agriculture

Kansas Wheat Commission

Hoverson Farms-Larimore,

North Dakota Sietsema Farms, Allendale,

Michigan Allied Potato-Bakersfield, California

International Tourism Fair, Varadero May 3 - 8, 2020

 Havana, 19 Dec.- The Ministry of Tourism of Cuba (Mintur) works intensively in the preparation of the XL edition of the International Tourism Fair, FITCuba 2021, planned from 3 to 8 May in Varadero, in a context of new normality marked by the Covid-19.

In the framework of the event will be the FITCuba MICE, a space dedicated exclusively to the tourism of events and incentives, a further example of the importance that the country and the Mintur attaches to the development of this modality, explained Dalila Alba González García, deputy director general of Marketing of the organization.

We hope to converge in this space actors of the event industry in Cuba and other nations, in an exchange as a workshop and business meetings, commented the specialist during the official launch of the Calendar Events Cuba 2021 and 2022.

In addition, he added, the catalogue will be presented with all the facilities of the destination for the realization of events.

Edition 40 of the event, as has already been reported, will have Russia as a guest country of honor, a market that has had significant growth in Cuba, even in these times marked by the pandemic, González García told the press.

It recalled that this year it was not possible to hold the meeting because of the epidemiological situation imposed by the CORONAvirus SARS-CoV-2, which caused the Covid-19, and noted that all necessary measures had been taken to organize the next one, which was part of the 17 tourist events to be held in The Greatest of the Antilles in 2021.

FITCuba 2021 will focus on the sun and beach product, and is part of the uptick in this sector, which will also have as projections for next year the continuity of the vitality of this activity and the increase of the arrival of visitors to the country, he noted.

With dozens of hotels certified with the status Most Hygienic and Safe Tourism, The Mintur, in conjunction with the Ministry of Health and international organizations, has provided for safety protocols to preserve the health of both customers and their workers.

The XXXIX International Tourism Fair, FITCuba 2019, had the record participation of more than seven thousand 500 professionals from the tourism industry, from 53 countries. 

Petition to Biden-Harris on Restoring Cuba Policies with Signers

 On line list currently at 1,885.  Names below will be updated when reaches 2,000  

1/21 1:42 P.M.

TO: President Joseph Biden, Vice-President  Kamala Harris, Secretary of State Nominee Antony Blinken

Restoration of Obama's Cuba Policy by the Biden-Harris Administration

JM

Campaign created by

John McAuliff

 Fund for Reconciliation and Development

We ask you to confirm during the first days of the Biden-Harris Administration your plan to restore President Obama's opening with Cuba including general licenses for all travel; cultural, sports and educational exchanges; flights to regions and cruises; unrestricted remittances and personal transfers; agricultural sales; business agreements; and renewal of full embassy and consular services.

Sign by clicking here

Why is this important?

During their campaign, President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Harris pledged to "promptly reverse the failed Trump policies that have inflicted harm on the Cuban people".

We agree with Robert Malley, the President of the International Crisis Group, writing in the New York Times, that to "restore President Barack Obama’s Cuba policy" is beneficial "low hanging fruit", appropriate for the beginning of the Biden-Harris Administration.

Substantial majorities of Americans support repairing the Trump Administration's symbolic and substantive damage to our freedom as well as to our national political and economic interest .

Prompt action is essential so independent visitors and specialized travel agencies can create trips that renew support for Cuba's private sector by the spring and summer of 2021.

Cruise lines, tour operators, airlines, universities, cultural exchanges, agricultural producers and businesses require early policy change in order to resume jobs generating engagement in the 2021-2022 season.

Organizer: Fund for Reconciliation and Development, US/Cuba People to People Partnership
Cosponsors: Center for Cuban Culture + Economy; Gallatin Valley Friends of Cuba, Montana; US Women and Cuba Collaboration

1,078 signers as of 11 a.m., 1/12/21   

Name                       Zip code          Personal comments

John McAuliff 11901 the initiative must by our side

Andrew Berman 55416

Mary Cleveland 10023

John Hockman 60015-3553

John Cabrera 91775 As a Cuban-American I believe every American should have the right to go to Cuba whenever and however they'd like. U.S. needs to normalize relations with Cuba NOW!

Jayne Rynar 24471

Rae Kasdan 22980

Kendall Karst 53208

Peter Munoz 53045

Fran Cory 11747

Nancy Lanthorn 37601

Steve Warren 34243

Barbara Hickernell 10562

Nancy Mead 97230

Shabnam Samoohi 11375

Ann Roy 34243

Rafael Estrada 90600

Linda Ralls 77573

dulce Rosal 11373

Susan Metz 11238

Vincent Versace 90039

Sharlene London 90232

Norma J F Harrison 94702

Kathleen Walsh Dâvy 11372

margie mcclure 97201-8323

Jay Scarborough 12866

Merrie Felder 39739

DeeDee Newlon 27508

Jed Best 10024

Nicholas Long 2837

Francine Brown 10037

Soledad Pagliuca 32080

Daniel Samoohi 33160

Mike Davison 23233

Gordon Mac Martin 14226

Michael Smith 21221 I have been to Cuba on an educational cruise. I would like to visit that beautiful place again

Ben Gritzewsky 77046

Aaron Singer 33322

Lupe. Torre 33701

Joe Braun 33707

Ed Mc Ginn 22312

A. Tom 11962

Daniel Perez 92011 Support for the Cuban People, engagement is the only way

Norman Pearlmutter 11713

Patrick Bonner 90280

Kristen Tripp 59715

Nancy Proctor 32746 I had the privilege of visiting Cuba and saw first hand the love of the American people and our way of life exhibited by the Cubans.  The best way to support the Cubans and there wish for freedom is to engage with them one-on-one and that can only happen with the normalization of our relations with Cuba.  Please join me in signing the petition.

Dennis Bixler-Marquez 79902

william kanz 11957

Cynthia Campo 27514

MARTHA MAYO 7728

Phillip Singerman 20817

Patricia Morgovsky 33139

Lois Howes 11520

Barbara van Asselt 33437

Ruth Dreyer 33325

John Wheatland 21044

Charles Hirschberg 89135

Lillian Manzor 33143

Jean Goldberg 10023

david muro 21017-1329

Carole Ermler 10461

JULIAN LOSCALZO Loscalzo 55104

Liliana  Margarita Singer 33322

John Reay 55108-2022

Erich Concepcion 33175

Vicente DURAN 33186

MARISA DURAN 33186

Diria Díaz Sabatier 28042

Rolando Gonzalez 33018

Carlos Noval 33165

PATRICIA PEREZ 60660

Indira Leneman 90024

Ruby Figueroa 28303

ILIANA ALEMAN 33578

Vincent Ruiz Bouvet 93003-7115

SHEYLA HICKS 37212

Nicole Machado 33175

Kathleen Diener 91104

Felix Kury 94015

Erik Franco 33144

Will Barnes 10027

Beverley CITRON ABREU 30064

Gretel Rodríguez Ibatao 30318

Guy Perkins 89519

Eileen Smith 55413

Marcela zurita 91775

Desiree Arretz 95119

Vicky Huynh 91024

Gladys Prawl 91031

Michelle Green 90278

Julia Gonzalez 90270

Linda Elzer 11792

Arlene Fuccillo 11961

Yohandy Torres 33055 No al bloqueo a cuba

Marlene perez 77407

Armando Martinez 32725

Gregory Calloway 21657

Ken Kurzweil 10506

Carlos Hatfield 78613

Erskin Mackall 10023

Janet perez 37203

Felix Moya 10300

Mary Post 11730

Katie Mclaughlin 91024

Priscilla Marquis 94103

Jesus Perez 11050

Angelica Del Real 90262

Diane Keefauver 97205

Ronald Hendrix 55124

Rachael Singer 90046

Marcelle Gimborn 34711

Gerard Gimborn 34711

Cecile Leneman 94704

Caridad Martinez 33165

Michael Whitehurst 94131

Joan Swanzy 33708 It's great to visit, the people are so friendly.

Susan Snell 49331

Gabriela Torres 90640

Ann Kasperski 33928-5921

Lazaro Gomez 33032

Kenneth Schweitzer 21623

Sandra Dunn 33853

Adrienne Balkany 78610

Daina Lauren 90302

EILEEN PURCELL 94114

Mark Jaress 91607

Fred Swenson 34293

Hugo Hernandez 33404

Mary Beltrand-Nylen 55401

Nicole Acaron-Toro 90034

Eduardo Riquelme 75007

Chad Olin 33137

Michael McClanahan 55443

Jorge Bracho 77040-1676

Erick Viruet 11003

Evelyn Tully Costa 11225

Patrica Paley 11217

Gregorio Chavez 87105

Elena Schwolsky 11220

lucy koteen 11238

Nicholas Fairbairn 78721

dennis Duncanwood 96052

donna neff 4011

Tequila Minsky 10012

Gloria Brandman 11215

N Jose Acevedo 10960

Brenda Colling 11211

Robert Van Fleet 95973

Richard Wolff 59718

sandy reiburn 11217

Nancy Romer 11215

Fritz Archer 11413

Hillary Exter 10009

Ellen Friedland 10011

Merry Tucker 10014

Lorraine Riscinti 7675

michael leneman 90046

Carl Arnold 13757

Ivan Donovan 07631-3240

Veronica Nunn 12498

Kay Torres 91754

Francisco Zaragoza 90241

Aleksey Duplinsky 90814

Marie C. 11234

Kristina Martinez Acosta 55016

Michael DeMaio 17601

Jean M Ronald JACQUES 11542

Katarina Wong 87505

Keith Crossley 14580

Seyn Laproyen 10014

Patrick/ Plantin 11510

Robert Eisenstadt 10025

Mimi Sheller 19072

Segars Herb 8724

Kristan VanDerMeer 7834

Constance Norgren 11215

Sonia McLaughlin 78725

Shirley Pate 20036

Larry Burch 43793

Judy Hoffman 33463

Wendy Sabin 7728

Lora Woodruff 97229

Virgen Aguilera 33012

Richard Quint 94707

Susan Freel 10014

Derrick Williams 91752

David Leneman 90024

Sharon Fallon 7094

Amanda Leder 11050

Kristen Jelley 23464

Linda Schecter 10075

Ailin Laura González Chau 10200

Sally Blaser 80026

Coley Torok 23451

Aded Esquivel 12400

Krista Severeid 98406

katrina tan 10023 We need to bring back Obama's Cuba Policy which has done a lot of good in terms of Cuban-American relations and also in the growth of Cuban music, arts, culture through travel and tourism.

Jessica Mason 23454

Miguel González 10500

Santiago Flores Gutiérrez 10500

Helene Gordon 12498

Elias Castro 983

Meryl Meisler 10001

Michael Hannen 14620

Universo Garcia 10500

Marta López 10400

Eddy Miranda 10400

Robson Coccaro 89123

Jose Samuel Moya 10400

Liany Coto 10400

Alejandro P.M 10900 Yo firmé por establecer mejores relaciones entre Cuba y Estados Unidos

Juan Carlos Saenz de Calahorra 10400

Adrian de Armas 10400

Patricia Díaz 10700

Sean Gibbons 89123

Thalía Pérez Martínez 10400

Alexis Silva 10100

Charles Miller 2806

Madelaine Verdecia 10100

Camila Díaz Solanelles 6400

Carlos Espinosa 10400

Vera Schäfer 33071

David Marin 10400

Jose Morales 10500

MaryTeresa Gibbons 55903

Teri Gibbons 55906

Pedro Suárez 10400

Marty Duckenfield 29631

Ferhand Cha 10400

Abel Tablada 10400

Amy Walker 53226

Sonia González 10400

Monica Avila 89123

Martínez Sofía 10200

Luis Felipe Toledo 10400

Gianny Mardomingo Villar 10500

Analay cabrera 3006

Osmay Moya 10400

Argelio Morales Peña 10400

Yinet Rios 10900

Juan Rafael González González 10400

Amaya Garcia 10400

Alina D Feyt Alvarez 33135

Dalgis Moya 10400

Luis Carlos Benvenuto Solás 11300

Manolo Garriga 10500

Medea Benjamin 20002

Elena Freyre 33134

Jack Kern 78757

Teresa Menendez 33040

Norm Barnes 85132

Marla HOFFMAN 11040

Nicole Daghighian 90404

Jorge Ignacio Fernandez 18938

Joelle Deloison 94609

Angelica Salazar 94933

Brantly Womack 22911

Vlada Tomova 11205

Jay Berman 90266

Ellen Stein 91104

Gail Dubov 10024

Ismael Parra 90063

Nancy Wright 21228

Cynthia Thomas 75243

Carlos Alzugaray 10400

Agustin Castillo 10400

Philip Ross 94951

Allie Wood 32937

Steven Vazquez 48094

Brett Smith 33040

Naomi Andrews 33704

Leda Andrews 33040

yolanda miranda 91364

Dorian Canalizo 34655

Delvis Fernández Levy 93401

Kathleen Burke 55055

Ashley mashian 90025

Elena Espinosa 77043

Mark Ginsburg 95062-3598

Mario Chang 80300

Evelyn Maben-Hall 28173

Jolie Ginsburg 94117

Otis Cunningham 60643

Stefanie Ginsburg 80027

Marguerite Horberg 60640

Rebecca Balcer 33040

Dawn Gable 20770

Rose Blouin 60619

Maria Angelica Garcia-Nunez 14606

Christina Fraga-Saenz 93550

Rhonda Holman 64110

jeanne lemkau 27514

Michael Kemper 94109

Missy Degleffetti 60641

Rachel Barr 11226

August Fraai 33195

Mark Rush 80538

Philippe Gendrault 94115

Ralph Ricardo 30127

David Patterson 19428 We need to stand up now for our brothers and sisters in Cuba. We are all God's children regardless of where we live in the world. The suffering must end.

Irene Thomas 80538

Cathleen Gutekanst 60076

Sheila Low-Beer 29401

Pat Haskell 2905

Lauren Deutsch 60610

Beatrice Lumpkin 60615

Constance Jubb 94611

Jill Bozarth 33756

David Greenberg 1340

Richard Shortt 2144

MaryAnn Dolcemascolo 90405

Mary Nolan 69522

Lara Wasner 48076

Barbara Kennedy 55496

Adele Looney 44281

Cheryl LaBash 48219

Yudalmy Llanes Jenky 11372

Leslie Wilson 60611

Jerry Harris 60622

Maryann Fox 22204

Joel Schwartz 2445

Kieran Taylor 29403

Emily Chafa 50131

Stephanie Rugoff 10025

Sherry Frumkin 91356-4409

Judith Rohrer 30306

William Williams 37716

Gilberto Villa 10029-5711

Jessica Schanberg 60660

Joe Rodriguez 59043

Ryan Ross 87532

Robin Wold 60640

Meredith George 60640

Susan Bram 10014

Marla Hoffman 11040

Elise Rackmill 10027

Charles Crumpton 96822-3087

Miguel Lopez 90650

Jeanne Devine 85282

Barbara Ford 61820

Mary Ferazza 60628

Steve Clare 90291

Berta Rosa Berriz 29205

Vivienne Orgel 95062

Rhonda Neugebauer 92508

Gordon Mayer 60615

Louis Wolf 20016

Kathy Tholin 60647

Susan Mirsky 2461

Lyon Leifer 60062

Andrea Chitouras 2144

DAVID GINSBURG 60610-6071

Ellen Domke 60660

Kori Goldberg 10011

Stephanie Mano 98118

Susanna Jacob 4358

Arlene Crawford 60615

Priscilla Felia 11356

Bette Wanderman 10002

Zita Arocha 88007

Colin Tysoe 60018

Martin Saunders 53715

Jennifer Lehr 94903

Laurence Shoup 94609

Lani Ravin 5401

Phyllis Kirson 94930

Arleta C 22193

Ann Eskridge 48221

Soraya Rios 94587

Bill Meyer Meyer 48212

Judy Cantor-Navas 18017

Karolina Smiley 49546

Gloria Sellers 11201

Richard L Giovanoni 60053

Stanley Bielski 11764

Ethel MacDonald 59801

John Burbine 33040

Sharon Bohmfalk 33040-7448

Stephanie Hellstrom 33040

Gail Brown 94705

Amy Alexander 90272

F Loeb 98115-5325

Diane Boehm 11218

Ahmad Sanati 92692

Janet Selcer 2445

Stephen Rynerson 94706

Natalie Hinahara 54665

Bonnie Coleman 90026

Bwana Payeye Kizito 75173

Laurie S 90211

Louise Halverson 55407

Jo Goldman 1890

Amanda Bloom 94619-2902

Ken Martinez 87048

VERONICA DUPART 60653 To bring back Pres Obama Cuba Policy

Jan Strout 59718

Arsinoe Orihuela Sr 94518

Eda diBiccari 6092

Meg Gleason 53082

KRISTEN SCHLAUD 60502-7340

Rich Kettner 53188

Gordon Schiff 2130

Douglas Igelsrud 20770

Marguerite Casillas 94702

Sandra Kavanaugh 33040

Beth Handman 11215

Judith Cawhorn 48103

Amanda Holman 60077

Ejiro Gbaje 11225

Margaret Gilpin 10010

Chris Ray 11102

Alison Gbaje 11218

Sarah Grey 47250

Jordana Lambropoulos 98684

Cheryl Auger 91105

Rosalind Mustafa 60422

Elsa Auerbach 2130

Win Heimer 6105

Judy Lam 90067

Sue Foster 48141

Thalia Montes 79935

Lisa Brock 60643

K Weir 95472

María C. Alfonso 6109

Calli Madrone 97702

Melissa Michelson 91803

Kyla MacDonald 11215

Phyllis Willett 94702

Benita Lubic 20015

Edward Pohlert 92069

June Safran 94709

Miriam Levitt 94703

Judene Bennett 11225

Dawn Willey 91701

Natasha Beck 97214

richard chilton 68055

Patricia Longair 80526

Laurie White 48103

Norine Fernandez 93401-7711

VICTOR KOZASKI 91605

John Bechard 2140

Michael Friedman 48214

Katelon Jeffereys 98346-9511

don mannis 94577

Carolina Cositore-Sitrin 34240

tony hintze 60626

Eric Peterson 30331

Jean Savage 90016

David McLanahan 98136

Charity Fisher 10469

Jessica Safran 90402

Chuck Kieffer 48103

Erin McGarry 10550

Betty Rosenheimer 94595

Christy Breihan 53211 This doesn’t go nearly far enough—it doesn’t end the cruel and hypocritical economic blockade—but it is a small step in the right direction, so I support it.

Beth Williams 60615-2917

Julianne Stordeur 53074

Lawrence Safran 94086

Timothy Smart 33463

Joe de la Cova 55113

Gloria Simoneaux 94901

BARBARA WASSERMAN 11758

Sheila Malone 4344

jamaica itule simmons 94618

Armando Vilaseca 5494

Richard Schlaud 48461

Ellen Israel 2130

Jacqlynn McGarry 11215

Ida Hellander 60302

Jeff Glenn 60613

John MacDevitt 94118

Irene Kane 94605

Joan Janus 53208

Mayra Pabon 95834

Bernie Hall 98122

Hollis Stewart 90802

Lana Hoover 98106

Amika Kemmler-Ernst 2130

Jerome Kohn 94703

Lisa Sparaco 92102

Marcia Brooks 94530

Robert Gold 28273

Naomi Stamper 94707

Bolade Akintolayo 06904-0383

Karl Klee 48235

Cindy del Valle 75036

Nina Menendez 94611

Sandra Jones 63115-1708

Ellen Garza 60628-5112

Erin Feely-Nahem 10044

Ian McCain 48202

Alison Tudury 94066

Yvonne Gritzner 59833

Irene Hardisty 50312

Jay Levy 20912

Suzanne Wolfe 15216

Sarah Fowler 11218

JAMES WILLIAMS 98403

Charo Ledon 48106

Neifa Nacel-Dovalina 78216

Charles Bushong 46516

Margaret Lewicki 96160

Silvia Roca 29407

Sri Nimpuno 41143 Hopefully this will be a step to end the blockade on Cuba which has harmed the cuban people economically and scientifically

Gabriel Ramitez 91731

Marilyn Markowitz 94707

Richard Dawson 90026

Debbie Hodnett 20012

Alicia Leinberger 54665

Mirna Nacel 10025

Yves Chabal 35135

Brian Mitchell 62711

Lopez Raquel 87506

Magaly Spector 33135

Al Cohen 17036

Richard Slaughter 60649

Tania De La Torre 82072

Timothy Beyer 90717

Mia Stubbendorff 12834

Emeka Nwadiora 19081

Allan Oliver 98661

John Vilhauer 60502

Yolanda Mc Allister 90221

Russell Brinkman 60647

Terri Zuckerman 15213

Anne Habberton 21679

Rebecca Berlant 11231

Julia Todd 2138

Hank Hanig 94549

Heather Carawan 98404

Dylan Harris 90402

Eugene Hamond 12589

Esty Dinur 53704

Janice Di Roberts 6109

David Smith 88007

Jasmine Nacel 11231

Diane Fager 60640

Marilyn Borchardt 94618

Carol Cross 94061

Neil Fagan 50322

Deborah Goldman 98122

Robert Panero 94070

Kerry Bronson 59803

Leslie Salgado 21045

Charles Costigan 34711

Gerald Fetz 59891

Jon Scop 97217

Marilyn Frankenstein 2138

Carole Okun 12205

Da6 Jenkins 94110

Barbara Wright 53704

Rafael Mauricio Martínez Santisteban 10550

Amy Stack 11215

Frank Pratka 77098

Maria Walker 12208

Mina Mangewala 94541

Eva Ahrens 22042

Peter Fine 12309

Oscar Martin 32244

Marla Chung 90043

Ardy Sowe 21061

Mike Collier 6033

Saundra Lang 90008

Kerstin Medwin 12203

Adrienne Mannis 94577

Neva Turoff 95009

Barbara Wein 94131

Mavis Anderson 2169

Desautels Kiki 94070

Berto Rossi 97308

Yoel Garcia 33145

Lydia Alcock 21211

Nathan Rynerson 94610

Zachary Denney 95204

Chelsea Clark 98117

Michael Doughney 20777

SerachBracha Albert 94502

Habiba Herbert 90018

Paul Albert 94502

Linda Faste 94305

Thomas Tamberelli 17702

Rick Sagan 60601

Melisa Riviere 55405

Cassandra Wanzo 30342

Mary Johnson 10549

Antonia Lortis 55417

Rakel Garcia 55454

Ednah Beth Friedmsn 94709

Brandon Lerda 97540

Jenny lopez 80922

Curt Rademacher 55104

Theresa Reuter 21214

Lynn Godfrey 23324

Ruben Sandoval 95409

Claire Mortimer 4616

Donald Goldhamer 60304-1713

Kenneth Fjällström 45142

Shirley Nakao 94602

Ellen Gierson 94609

Stephen J Isaac 804

Michael Bruns 37083

Eli Higbee-Glace 1027

Randal Castille 70578

Brian Laub 10314

Pamela Nance 96151

Jermaine Brubaker 95531

Jean Fisher 44094

Thomas Fair 44102

Lisa McNany 16001

Danay Diaz 33132

John Baty 53532

Jeanne Mugge 55406

Rolando Sanchez 30555

steve oneil 54902

Ashley Metz 55311

Kayleen Dowell 81082

Rick Hannegan 43832

Tom Shields 11577

Kay Freedy 5828

Elena Barge 22802

Alberto Jones 32137

Mario Minichino 6110

Michael Pyle 32118

Stephanie Orphan 11106

Victoria Sterling 44105

Mike Lewis 21044

Ronnie Gunter 29646

Loreen Heinz 21044

Antonio Sainz Leyva 33178-4316

Kelly T 8070

James Stohler 46280

Csrina Orrvik 45142

Douglas Ewart 55407

Tracey Durgan 5402 Restoring Obama's opening with Cuba is good for the people of both countries.

Sharon Levy 20912

John Johnson 32707

Louise Andrews 5408

Beth Sachs 05401-5272

Nathan Montgomery 2476

Paulette Hammond 21229

Quincy Scott 94519

Michael Frank Hopkins 14217

Miranda Smith 88007

BETH CALDWELL 80121

Jose Delgado 28166

Kamau Rashid 60628

Emmanuel Vargas 1826

Edward Walsh 27569

Alberto Sarrain 33193

Gregory Turner 45239

Allen Bradley 95205-2515

Deborah Jehnsen 43021

Mark Quinn 70125

David Jehnsen 43021

Jacquelynn Goessling 55409

Leticia Carrillo 94806

Lisa VALANTI 15216

Thomas Mcclung 92374

Mireille Demeyere Despaigne 90062

Nathan Wilson 29607

Dawn Sachs 77057

Fanny Ortiz 90033

Lisa Mulvey 18643-2703

Gloria Brown 6105

Bryan Ferrer 80223

Beverly Abisogun 10009

R Bruce Rogers 80305 Current policy unfair to Cubans.

Lawren Cochran 29332

Curt Bender 97214

Genoveva Calloway 94806

Brad Russell 27284

Cullen Carolyn 11566

Pamela Montanaro 94708

Ray Donaldson 21042-3891

Steffi Domike 15217

James Early 20011

Laura Moonshower 60510

Eva Pettersson 94619

iliana blair 14424

Rebecca Navarrete Davis 94704

Fran Manzella 14850-9485

Eileen Del Pino 91775

Nancy Jackson 95060

Marcie Brown 63118

Barbara Bibel 94708

José Alejandro Domenech Garcia 10400

Michael Joseph 37938

Ileana Hilton 28521

Alisa Torres Hernandez 48910

Peter Gilmore 15226

Helen Erb 90814

Pilar Tirado Tirado 4011

Joan Hill 36535

diane gayer 5401

Patty Hirota 94605

Joseph Schenkenfelder 2145

Audrey Ewart 94577

Gregory Jue 60202

Lydia Curtis 20010

Lea Terhune 5408

MOISES WITEMBERG 90067

Jane Hodges 94708

Ivy Leichman 94501

Henry Schwarz 20007

Francine Price 2130

Lesley McQuarrie 98106

Chai Levy 94706

Carmen Rumbaut 78660

Rich Weller 19810

Janice McMannis 15221

Mel Packer 15208

Andre Powell 21214

Tomi Harris 15147-1618

Lisa Brock 60643

Carla Pfahler 15217-2825

Lea Aschkenas 94901

Fay Akindes 53144

Gyan Hardman 98126

Jean Rook 5408

Sharon Hazard 48423 Trump is a prejudiced, white supremacist, dictator, hater and I don't agree with his actions.

Frank Jardines Rivero 80100

Anne Goetz 27712

Michael Goetz 27712

Anthony Nelson 49008

Sandra Hazley 15214

Jim McWilliams 94611-4809

David Durbin 78731

Carolyn J Grantham 60617

Robert Bolduc 6320

Dorothy Garcia 91001

Tashi Rana 78741

Delia Van Brunt 98512

Dana Drexler 32533

Malia Everette 96771

Dedrick Asante-Muhamma 21044

Rashida Johnson 11236

Ann Kimberley Bennett 92705

Norma Orama 11 000

Joshua Brown 91423

Teresa Sanchez 7093

John Colatosti 11733

Lee Collins 78750

Tony Savino 12561

Marilyn Kohler 83843

Rachel Rubin 60615

Ricardo Gonzalez 53711

Nancy Yamada 95816

Kathleen Mead Griffiths 53703

Catherine Murphy 20712

Mirialis Tejeda 53719

Anne Mitchell 10033

Carol Steele 94109

SARAH OVENDEN 05301-8472

Robert Ritchie 33704

Kathy Bisbee 1040

Jason Micks 53562

Erica Krumpl 90026

Dora Romero 60638

catherine r cusic 94110

Charlie Serrano 60622

Elizabeth Cervantes 94066 We relate to Cuba because our love for culture ,music,dance and humanity. It is important that we work together in building our relation.

Alien Torres 85225

Jeff Deatherage 66206

John Johnson 21207

Tamara Lewis 78660

Rita Barouch 94805

Ariel Reyes Antuan 11413

Cate Suter 91107

Idolka Cruz Bao 98028

Jim Gilmour 33706

Peter Moore 94703

Kristie Marino 98166

Marti Romero 93550

David Stoler 53703

Carmen Crum 94580

Liz Nunez 53716

Jeff Wilkie 97487

Betsy Lamb 97701

Aarthi Rajiv 94043

Sheila Suarez 91202

Sharray Morales-Washington 90262

Tom Ehrlich 95065

Maureen Meehan 44060-5053

John Hauf 94930

Cynthia Palmer 39206

Osiel Recio Estrada 94530

Dimary Cubero 765

Bob Bivaletz-Thomson 97007

Marcy Shapiro 55422

Peter Lawrence 90069

LUISA CRESPO 90808

Jeremy Bigwood 20010

Tanya Lewis 45240

Karen Hampton 1851

Andres Espinoza 33436

Andrea Devine 2141

Scott Berenthal 30076

Julia Woodward 1602

Denise Eagleson Greenberg 45502

Stacy Falco 33470

Lynne Eisenberg 2476

Erica Somerville 6611

Luis R Báez 33606

Rick Lyngaas 53711

Raul Izquierdo 0

emmet campos 78619

Cori Epstein 11228

Wilfred Labiosa 926

Seil Roman 921

Sandra Jackson-Opoku 60615

Allyson Perez 22202

Antonio lopez 10538

Peggy Vander Meulen 49507

Eric Winter 11101

Gail Phares 27615-3440

Asia Broadway 95062

DOUG BURKHOLDER 17602

Hiroshi Pino 10600

Celina Benitez 20712

Milagros Herrero 33614

joann pavletich 77009

Margaret Frohlich 17013

Luis Alfonso Lescaille 10400

Jay Sweeney 18414

Charlene Uresy 48223

Linda Wosskow 94949

Carlos Guzman 53703

Cheryl Morden 20912

Jaime Garza 60402

Jess Barton 98101

Sarah Lerda 95973

Jennifer Anspach 98223

JP Blanchet 53713

B Plotch 10025

WINSTON CODNER 10547

Sublette Ned 10012

Rosa Saavedraq 27610

Jeannisell Taylor 10017

Constantino Ferrer 27103

Jena Matzen 27705

Ellen Canavan 27521

Leopoldo Bello 60647

Jeremy Landau 87557

Alexandra Gelbard 33134

Fred Svensson 53714

Gretchen Wahl 60640

Ruben G. Rumbaut 92617

Ana Karim 28205

Julie Skinner 53562

Vivian Otero 918

Audrey Bullard 10029

Michael Boone 96107-9593

Alberto Vargas 53715

Mary Campbell 10580

Christine Mathews 23228

Jesse Rosenfield 11706

James Place 11963

Willie Williamson 60643

Gloria Fullerton 53705

Diana Yonkouski 94705

Patricia Dopazo 13820

Gary Poulson 53711

Judy Williams 48207

Adolfo Nodal 90731

Elizabeth Martin 1005

Michael Sanders 59047

ignacio fernandez 90405

David Raphael 97215

Frank Dew 27403

Angela Colón 48210

Norman Storer 22202

Peter Lewis 53705

Anabella Menendez 11300

Jessica Grande 6518

Temchin, Maddy 7871

Christina Thomas 33703

Aida Delgado 10025

Ihor Gowda 78704

Diana Battle 94134

Jody Castano 78620

Walther Soeldner 99036-9767

Michael Carlson 53704

Mud I Baron 90019

Jon Kardon 70116

Deborah Billings 29205

Nathan Ginsberg 94403

Allan Koss 60660

Rosario Feliu 33143

christienne de Tournay birkhahn 94704

Nathan foulks 53711

Werner Wothke 20906

Craig Mathers 2118

Paul De Castro 91016

Nickolas Moran 53713

Sarah Stone 91311

Tamar Petty 27023-8628

Nancy Gwin 13210

CHARLES HUNTER 5101

Gracie Kazer 11201

Ava Gutierrez 89012

Ivonne Heber 98296

Karen Wald 33009

cynthia Heil 28806

John Pegg 55406

Heather Sloan 47408

Marcel Hatch 33193

George Baez 95110

Joan Havard 78742

Lovett Falwell 17601

Estella Habal Habal 94306

William Moore 95110 Trump is a moron, Marco Rubio and the Cubans in FL are delusional and trapped in 1959

James Mulligan 91711

marjorie inman 53207

Marilyn Lorenz 63110

Ana María García 959

Jenny Barrier 27707

Josephine McNeil 27712-2751

Linda OHern 53705

Julia Sewell 93035

Patrick Henn 10001

Samuel Williams 23060

Maria Montefu 33032

Donna Goddard 30033

Thomas Nagano 90012

AARON BALUYOT 94607

Heather Ford 2090

Rosa Karim 10030

Steven Edelstein 27606

Fonda Sara 11694

Carlyn Pruess 53703

Mary Day Kent 19119

Raqiel Maria Mendieta 33157

Susan Smith 90032

Basil Clunie 60202

Juan Francisco Ceballos 94578

Nick Nice 53703

Joel Leu 94127

Theresa Howard 45224

Errol Montes Pizarro 736

Amy Maurer 53704

Pepe Rossy 12308

Elizabeth Ringhofer 94549

Rena Kraut 55406

Marcy Chamblin 6473

Osvaldo Toledo-Martínez 926

Damaris Orraca 911

Anthony Sweet 94549

Dawn Allen 28409

Jason Oringer 94121

Margaret Summers 20024

Jessie Vallejo 91768

Alexandria Lockhart 11233

Ashton Wilson 30316

Joseph Skorman 94608

Tony Sauza 90042

Mildred Williamson 60643

America Facundo 918

paul adriaanse 94121

Jill Giegerich 83705

Rick Harwood 98118

Morgan Mahdavi 19143

Urban Donna 33155

Bette Sussman 10025

Betty Custer 53717

Julie Rivera 94530

Suzanne Prenger 68510 An economic blockade only hurts the general population. It's time to stop.

Carol Springman 53558

Bonnie Carey 61275

Toby Koosman 37779

Diane Valenti 94114

Natacha Martinez 32809

Analia Romero 91748

John Lindsay 40504

Jean Eberhardt 98502

Ismael Dovalina 78216

Jane McCoy 28787

Jane and Wes Hare 27517

Beryl Landau 94110

Anna Fouste 38351

Jesse De La  Pena 93535

Germaine Quiter 94804

Michelle Saurer 5101

HILTON JOSEPH 30329

Michelle St Martin 2556

Bonnie Sundance 80306 I love Cuba.  I know Cuba personally and know Cubans have much to teach Americans about caring for all people through health, education, justice systems and the environment!

Cynthia Domingo 98117

J. Luna Vázquez 98118

Alice Zachmann 56001

Diane Messmer 98103

Sarah Wales 94602

jan susler 60647

Benji Foster 22031

Kenia Bell 10400

Darlena Torres 94030

Ravi Khanna 2148

DON CAREY 61275

Jose Cedeno 33173

Julie Murray 10803

Robert Blum 98584

Susan Kaye 94577

Anne Laroche 20005

Elizabeth Maloney 7108

Ron Miller 60649

Vicki Legion 94110

Melanie Froysaa 92679

Richard Sedivy 90042

Stephanie Jutt 10024 We relate to Cuba because of our love for culture ,music,dance and humanity. It is important that we work together in rebuilding our relations.

Shadayra Kilfoy-Flores 53703

Hsini Huang 10028

Sasha Troha 53597

Hachy Mendez-smith 90019

Kay Plantes 92037

Brad Johnson 16868

Marc Anthony 33101

Amanda Grove 98225

Juli Evangelista 98244

Maureen Gosling 94609

Judith Blank 53574

Jason McClure 27909

Mary Sargent 91342

Amy Wimmer 98125

Luz Mena 94710

Lynne Hancock 36522

Beata Stylianos 90254

Roberta Vollendorff 98225

Mark Porter 53575

Leshonda Reeves 35903

Peter Kelley 53714

Susanne Berggren 12948

RENE PRADEL 32821

Dareche Sylvie 77760

Dino Rigoni 46321

Candace Bartsch 89005

Ana Padro 716

W David Austin 27701

Priscilla LoForte 95661

Claribel Mattos 982

Claudia Critelli 99999 It’s correct!!!

Maria Martell 94043

Margaret Turner 23238

Luis Carbonell 33615

Anthony Charles Giarratano 33321

Laura Castillo 78220

Alice Mebane 11740

Elena Ronquillo 94610

Romy Aranguiz 33913

Luis Hernandez 33189

Andres Ruiz 33913

Sayumi D 7876

Yanluis Bergareche 33141

Joan Hoyer 53704

MARGARET WIENER 27510

Susan Smith 87111

andrew lee 98072 So my wife and I can visit her relatives and enjoy ourselves on "vacation" :D

Amelia Sotomayor 918

Cecelia Beckwith 97215

marco di gianvito 0

Kevin Jakab-Mathys 53704

Ivonnne Rivera 907

Marjorie Ziefert 48103

Raquel Mendieta 7940

Laura Chrisman 98122

Rev. J. Mark Davidson 27516

Patrick Donnelly 53705

Judith Brill 13820

Catherine Banks 98225

Kit Vaq 94612

Mariana Gaston 11217

Carl Micarelli 10022

Beatriz Lee 98072

Elizabeth Giglio 28205-4125

Kathleen Schreyer 90077

Patricia hermsen 53575

Judith Davies 90405

Patricia Armengol 33126

Ali Estrada 94803

Dionisio Camacho 10598