US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Friday, the United States has imposed against Cuba since 1962, called for Congress to end the trade embargo.
Democrats already in his 2014 book "tough choices" outlined the US, Cuba set up diplomatic relations and trade ties with the US President Barack Obama, who called for the move in December, in line with its shade.
Perhaps most importantly, it is a time, the top two contestants Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio and former Governor Jeb Bush draws a sharp contrast to the young Cuban-American voters in Florida and its position on this matter is soft. It is controlled by Republicans, the Congress of the United States and Cuba any time soon in relation to this kind of change, is unlikely to allow.
Maryland on Thursday, Clinton said after a meeting with labor leaders in the campaign, "US President Barack Obama, has been set by the engagement that the time has come to move forward," he said. "I looked firmly in his second term, he (Obama) is not something that is working as secretary of state."
Clinton's campaign said it would support the framing of its competitors, such as "failed policies of the past."
Relations between the United States and Cuba have long been a hot spot in the state of Florida politics. Castro was born in Cuba and at the end of 1950, shortly after the revolution, the Cuban-American generation, who fled the country to spend money on travel to Cuba as tourists, Americans and US companies from trading with the daughter of the restrictions that are supported by the militants, including the position.
For decades, politicians competing for votes in South Florida and the presidential candidate of the party who has an important state, reflected. Clinton's husband was among them, so he tried to quietly engage Fidel Castro in 1990.
Now, the Florida election Fernand Amandi, an expert on the Cuban-American public opinion, and a solid voting bloc that "time is not very long ago can not be possible." The opening of the Clinton "in transition," says
The United States and Cuba, Americans born between, and Amandi said they consider themselves to be one of the younger voters are less likely to vote on the issue, they were not, or were born to Cuban parents who, even if not always in favor of the normalization of relations. "- They work, caring, pocket the problem, educate their children and the younger generation, like other immigrants," he said.
Born in Cuba in the last few decades, the flow of immigrants was there, Amandi said. "They live under sanctions and concluded that only brave the Castro regime," he said. "I have 55 years of failure, it is time to think of something else."
Beyond the Cuban-American community, the majority of adults in the United States to support normalization of relations with Cuba. Pew Research Center study, conducted from 20 to 14 July, and immediately after the decision of Obama, 72 percent to end the trade embargo, the two-digit growth both in January to support the Americans in favor of the establishment of diplomatic relations with Cuba found that nearly 73 percent.
Pew, 56 percent of voters in the same trend, even among Republicans, support for economic relations as well as diplomatic bonds and 59 per cent support.
Rubio, remained firm on Thursday issued a statement ahead of the visit of Clinton. He said, "We are one of the discount is only 90 miles from the beach after the American a brutal regime, Castro strengthened," Rubio said. "President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary dictators and repressive governments to encourage a ceasefire know that, and not weaken America's standing in the world in the 21st century."