Latinnews Daily - 3 October 2003

CUBA: No easing of US trade embargo, Noriega

Caribbean & Central America 12 July 2010 Modified: 03 October 2003 215 views

The US government will continue with its present hardline policy towards Cuba, the Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, Roger Noriega, told a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Cuba. Noriega was pressed by several senators to clarify why the government was insistent on preserving the 40-year old trade embargo on Cuba.

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