Idaho governor seeking approval for trade mission to Cuba BOISE, Idaho (AP)

State officials have filed applications with the U.S. State Department for Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter to travel to the communist island nation of Cuba on a trade mission to promote Idaho agricultural products.

Cuba has been under a U.S. trade and travel embargo since 1962, which Otter would like to see lifted.
“While in Congress, he made it clear that the embargo with Cuba has been a failure,” Mark Warbis, Otter’s communications director, told the Idaho Statesman. “It’s not the government, but the people it’s punishing.”...


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