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Carter: End Cuba Embargo
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Progressive Portal
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May 18, 2002 02:30 PDT
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Jimmy Carter ended a historic visit to Cuba Friday sharply at odds with
the Bush administration over how to deal with Fidel Castro. The former
president said limits on tourism and trade often hurt Americans more
than Cubans.
"I think an American private citizen or an American company should have
the right to visit any place on earth and the right to trade with any
other purchaser or supplier on earth," Carter told a news conference
immediately before leaving Cuba.
"I see the embargo and travel restraints as an imposition on the human
rights of American citizens," he added.
Carter also said the basic pillars of U.S. policy toward the island had
been counterproductive failures.
Carter said that cooperation rather than isolation would help prevent
problems, such as the allegation of Cuban aid for biological warfare
programs made this month by Bush administration officials.
White House aides have said that George Bush would reassert and
strengthen central parts of U.S. policy on Monday, May 20, 2002, the
100th anniversary of Cuba's independence from Spain.
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