Sen. Dodd Blasts Cuba Embargo

Mon., Dec. 7, 1998

Sen. Christopher Dodd called Sunday for new talks with Cuba, saying Washington’s four-decade policy of isolating the communist nation hasn’t worked.

“We’ve been told over and over again that if we just hold on a bit longer, this policy of absolute no contact, absolute no conversation, absolute no interchange at all will work,” Dodd told reporters in Havana.

“Well it hasn’t. In fact as I look around, the condition of the Cuban people is not good.”

Dodd, a Democrat from Connecticut, said he spoke with Cuban President Fidel Castro for six hours Friday night focusing mainly on international terrorism and drug trafficking, as well as U.S. efforts to help the victims of Hurricane Mitch in Central America.

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