Open Letter to the Biden Administration from Progressive and Moderate Cuban Americans

January 12, 2021

Letter from Manuel R. Gómez, Mariana Gastón, Álvaro Fernandez, a letter to President-Elect Biden: As progressive and moderate Cuban Americans, we feel strongly that we must write you now—despite the many challenges you face--to request that you move as quickly as possible on your commitment to reverse the cruel measures taken by the previous administration against our community and our families in Cuba. As you know, there is a near ban on remittances to our families, severe limitations on travel to all but the Havana airport, and a near complete closure of our embassy on the island, which practically eliminates the issuance of emigration or travel visas for family reunification. Our community and our families in Cuba are hurting because of these and many other measures, too many to detail here, and which are especially inexplicable in the middle of a worldwide COVID-19 catastrophe.