International Attorney Robert Muse stated "President Obama has unfettered authority to open the trade opportunites in Cuba.:

“We will end (click here) an outdated approach that for decades has failed to advance our interests and instead we will begin to normalize relations between our two countries." the President said in a nationally-publicized statement from the White House.



January 14, 2015
C-Span
Video 1 hour 30.08 minutes

Trade experts talked about U.S. relations with Cuba, (click here) following President Obama’s December 2015 announcement that eased some ties between the two countries. Panelists discussed whether a full embargo lift was possible, commercial opportunities, and how the international community responded to President Obama’s announcement.

Mr. Muse articulated his belief in that the normalization of relations with Cuba is a legacy issue for the President. NORMALIZING relations with Cuba will bring all the same trade laws as any other country abides in a relationship with the USA.

Here we go again with biased political rhetoric of the right wing.

Rubio, a potential 2016 presidential candidate, called Obama’s announcement, “another concession to a tyranny,” and said that it was a sign that Mr. Obama’s administration is, “willfully ignorant of the way the world truly works.”

We already know what happens when Cuba is isolated in the Western Hemisphere.