As the United States and Cuba moved this week to end more than 50 years of diplomatic conflict, public support for re-establishing relations with Cuba has increased. There is equally broad, and growing, support for ending the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba. In addition, a separate survey released today finds […] Read more »
CBS News poll: Resuming relations with Cuba
As Cuba and the U.S. are about to officially resume diplomatic ties for the first time in 54 years, 58 percent of Americans favor re-establishing diplomatic relations between the two countries, while just 24 percent oppose. Seventy-two percent of Democrats and 55 percent of independents support re-establishing diplomatic relations with […] Read more »
Chicago Council Survey: Americans Support Ending Cuba Trade Embargo
Two in three Americans (67%) support the United States ending the trade embargo with Cuba. Support for ending the embargo is bipartisan, with majorities of Democrats (79%), Republicans (59%), and Independents (63%) all in favor of lifting the ban on US trade with Cuba that has been in place for […] Read more »
Same‐Sex Marriage Resonates Most Strongly with Young People in the Americas
In April of 2015, Ecuador and Chile approved civil union laws for same‐sex couples. In recent years, same‐sex marriages have been recognized in Uruguay, Brazil, and Argentina. Conversely, other countries in the Americas have demonstrated opposition to the idea of civil unions or marriages for same‐sex couples. For example, this […] Read more »
Cuba: Castro Brothers in Trouble
Floyd Ciruli, Ciruli Associates The stealth poll of 1,200 Cubans finally provides credible findings out of the communist-controlled nation and shows what most objective observers expected. The revolution is over, the Cuban people dislike their own system of government even more than other governments in the West, and the Castro brothers […] Read more »
Most want Cuba off terror list
Only a quarter of Americans say they see Cuba as a serious threat to the United States, and most approve of the Obama administration’s decision to remove Cuba from the government’s list of state sponsors of terror. CONT. Jennifer Agiesta, CNN Read more »