Ending The Embargo In The US Chambers Of Commerce

We the US Chambers of Commerce feel that it is in the best interest of both the US and Cuba to bury the hatchet. The US and Cuba have had bad blood since the 1960s when the Eisenhower Administration banned trading between Cuba and US except medicine and food. There were many reasons for the embargo like communism in Cuba, Cuba taxing American products heavily, and Cuba allowing the Soviet Union to build missiles bases in Cuba which ultimately resulted in the Cuban Missle Crisis. It is absurd in today's age to be scared of communism in Cuba when the US trades with most of Asia. Ending the embargo will only benefit both Cuba and the US economically dramatically. As a member of the US Chambers of Commerce, we would like to see the progress between Cuba and the US continue, and eventually end this absurd argument.
Ending the embargo will allow US businesses to expand over to Cuba and vice versa. We are doing everything in our power to make sure that the embargo ends like making the U.S.-Cuba Business Council that is working tirelessly to make sure both countries are aware of trading avenues. We have helped in Cuba having 43 pay-for-wireless zones throughout the country, dropping the price 2 dollars, also reducing the control the Cuban government has Cuban businesses. Five hundred thousands Cubans now employed in the private sector, plus the first 6 months of 2015 saw 127 percent increase in the number of registered hotel and restaurant cooperatives. This ban of trade is affecting The US Chambers of Commerce because every day that this embargo is still up the US and Cuban businesses lose