Reps. Ilhan Omar, Pramila Jayapal make unannounced trip to Cuba: Axios [View all]

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Al Mayadeen English
Source: Axios
28 Feb 2024 15:57

The visit has drawn fire from Republican lawmakers.

It has been confirmed to Axios by a spokesperson for the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) that two CPC leaders made an unannounced trip to Cuba while the House was on recess last week.

Initially reported by the Miami Herald, spokesperson Mia Jacobs stated that Reps. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) and Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), the chair and deputy chair of the CMJacobs said.

Both Jayapal and Omar are public critics of the American economic embargo on Cuba.

Even though US lawmakers occasionally travel to Cuba, those trips are usually open and overt in American and Cuban governments and news.

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Earlier in January, a group of 160 lawyers, mostly American, called on US President Joe Biden to remove Cuba from the so-called "State Sponsors of Terrorism" (SSOT) list.

"Given the tremendous economic, social, humanitarian, and commercial effect placement on the SSOT list has had for the Cuba people, maintaining it for such pretextual reasons continues to be a stain on U.S. foreign policy," the letter considered.

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