First travel, then cigars

The Obama administration has previously stated that they wished to improve relations with Cuba. Cuba is a communist island in the Caribbean that the US has a trade embargo with and has restricted US travel to. These policies have been in place for around 47 years and are just another remnant of the cold war that has become obsolete in its usefulness. The Obama administration has revealed that they wish to ease the travel restrictions that are currently in place and allow American citizens to travel to Cuba. As a first step a envoy of US congressman went to Cuba and met with both Raul Castro, who is the official president, and Fidel Castro, who isn’t dead yet. Fidel Castro was seen as healthy and active in his talks with the US congressman, he also spoke optimistically about the future state of the relations between our two countries. It would appear that Fidel wishes for improved relations within his lifetime and hopefully the American government will be able to fulfill his wish. However as of now there are only talks about lifting travel restrictions, the Obama administration has not said anything in regards to the trade embargo that is still going on. Like most changes in relation status between two nations it will be a slow process but at least there is talking going on between the two nations and hopefully before we know it all will be well because I believe that the trade embargo and travel restriction are just useless now because with the fall of the soviet union there really is no actual threat posed by being friends with an communist nation, not to mention the fact that we are already friends with China which is also operates a form of communism.