Letter to Rules Committee on Embargo on Cuba, May 12, 2000

Letter from Cardinal Bernard Law, Chairman, Committee on International Justice and Peace to Rules Committee on Embargo on Cuba, May 12, 2000

In their major pastoral letter issued for this Jubilee Year, the Catholic Bishops of Cuba addressed the many problems facing the Cuban people at this time, and singled out the economic embargo imposed by our country.

With Pope John Paul and the Cuban Bishops, the Catholic Bishops of the United States also believe that this embargo, which harms only the most vulnerable in Cuba, not the regime, should be ended. Aware that the political realities of our country make the outright termination of these measures unlikely at this time, we do urge that restrictions presently in effect that limit the commercial sale of food, feed, medicine and medical equipment be lifted now. 

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