Legislature Urges Removal of Restrictions on Cuba

File this under Things I Did Not Know.

Did you know that the Alabama legislature passed a resolution urging “the Congress of the United States to remove all trade, financial, and travel restrictions relating to Cuba?”

An AP story in the Times-Daily reports “Cuba has been under an American trade embargo for more than four decades, but a law passed by the U.S. Congress in 2000 allows American food to be sold directly to the island on a cash basis.”

That’s why we get this today, “The two houses of the [Alabama] state legislature approved a resolution urging Washington to end the 45-year-old restrictions, after $20 million in sales [of Alabama agricultural goods to Cuba] was negotiated.”