US lawmaker calls stupid suspension of flights to Cuba
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Havana, Oct. 26.- US Congressman James McGovern described the decision of Donald Trump's government to suspend flights to all destinations in Cuba on Friday's stupid political trick, with the only exception of Havana.
Closing these flights is a stupid political trick. It is absurd that this administration takes away the freedom for American travelers to fly wherever they want, 'said the Democratic legislator, who is chairman of the House of Representatives Rules Committee.
Our disagreements with the Cuban government must be handled through diplomacy and dialogue, not outdated and unpopular restrictions of the Cold War, added the legislator, one of the members of the US Congress who advocates the bilateral approach.
These measures, he said, "isolate us from our allies, embolden the uncompromising, injure the people of Cuba and undermine US companies that have made significant long-term investments to support these flights."
According to the congressman from Massachusetts, the Trump administration should devote less time to reversing the legacy of former President Barack Obama (2009-2017), under whose second term both countries began a process of normalization of relations that the current president decided to reverse.
Instead, McGovern estimated, the Republican executive should devote more time to reading 'on why the travel ban and other travel restrictions have been a colossal failure that should end as quickly as possible.'
The representative's reaction occurred after this Friday the State and Transportation departments announced that as of December 10, US airlines can only make trips to the José Martà International Airport in Havana.
That way, the airlines will be banned from going to any of the other nine international airports in the largest of the Antilles, which joins other measures taken by the Trump administration to reduce visits by Americans to the neighboring nation.
Today's announcement came a day after another member of the Capitol, Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy, issued an extensive statement in which he said that the White House and some congressional figures care little about the impact of Trump's punitive policies. in the Cuban people.
According to the legislator by Vermont, every few weeks or months the Republican executive "designs a new way to increase pressure on the Cuban government and, in doing so, causes greater difficulties for the Cuban people in whose name the White House professes to act."
