Rep. Sam Farr, D- Carmel, released a statement on the president’s announcement that Cuba will be removed from the list of “State Sponsors of Terrorism.”
According to the announcement:
Rep. Farr has traveled to Cuba and Latin America on several occasions. Most recently he attended the Summit of the Americas in Panama:
“As Cuba moves to reintegrate itself into the international community, we must be willing to modernize our relations with them. This decision by the President moves us closer to normalized relations between our two countries. Decades of isolation have not worked so I am glad we are finally talking with our neighbor to push for new path forward in Cuba.
“I have been engaged in Latin American affairs since serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in Colombia. At the 2012 Summit in Cartagena, it was clear our position towards Cuba alienated us from the rest of the hemisphere. We must join the rest of the world by engaging with the island to help build a more open and democratic Cuba.”
