Fresh off his first trip to Cuba, U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin is calling for more constructive engagement with the nation that has been under an American trade embargo for more than half a century - something that could bring big benefits to Illinois agriculture and manufacturing.
"New diplomacy with Cuba is long overdue," the Illinois Democrat said in a phone interview Wednesday from Capitol Hill. "We felt with our old foreign policy that we could oust Fidel Castro. It turned out that old age ousted Fidel Castro, not our foreign policy."
Rejecting "the totalitarian government of Cuba," the state's senior senator said that increased engagement in communications and trade would give ordinary Cubans "a chance to see what life in the West and life in America is all about." More >>
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