Miami-Dade poll sees shift in opinion over Cuba embargo

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Miami Herald

Posted on Wednesday, 12.03.08
Miami-Dade poll sees shift in opinion over Cuba embargo

A survey of Cuban Americans in Miami-Dade showed that the majority favor a lifting of the trade embargo.
By LIZA GROSS
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In an unprecedented shift in attitude that could affect Cuba policy for the incoming administration of Barack Obama, more than one out of two Miami-Dade Cuban Americans think the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba should end, according to a new poll released Tuesday.

The poll, conducted by Florida International University's Institute for Public Opinion Research and funded by the Brookings Institution and the Cuba Study Group, indicates that 55 percent of those polled favor discontinuing the trade embargo imposed in 1962. Sixty-five percent favor reestablishing diplomatic relations with Cuba.

''The poll has an extraordinary historical importance,'' said Guarione Díaz, president of the Cuban American National Council, a nonpartisan advocacy group in Miami.

The results, particularly as they relate to the embargo, reflect ''the fact that the Cuban Americans who were born in the United States or left after 1980 do not have the same vision as those who came in the 60s,'' Díaz said.



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[dipsydoodle]

1. I guess they can now see

the writing on the wall and some of them now don't want to look even more stupid than they are in reality.