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US DEMOCRATIC Party presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton will urge Congress today to lift the blockade on Cuba.
The prospective candidate will urge Republicans to abandon the “failed policies of the past” during a speech at the Florida International University in Miami, where the largest community of Cubans lives in the US, the Cubasi website reported yesterday.
The Trade with Cuba Act of 2015 introduced to Congress this week has cross-party support.
Earlier today she will share a platform in Fort Lauderdale with Republican hopeful and former Florida governor Jeb Bush, who opposes detente with Cuba, as does fellow candidate Floridan Marco Rubio.
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean said that the US blockade cost Cuba an estimated $117 million (£75m) in lost revenues in 2014.
On Wednesday Cuba announced agreements with China and Malaysia on trade and testing a Cuban-made vaccine for cancer.
