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In questions about foreign policy asked to the candidates who are still running for the party's nomination for the 2020 presidential elections, the U.S. daily The Washington Post asked them if they would eliminate those limitations imposed by the Republican leader against Cuba, the information added.

13 out of the 20 interviewed responded affirmatively, including former Vice President Joe Biden, Senators Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Amy Klobuchar and Michael Bennet; Congressmen Tulsi Gabbard and Tim Ryan; former Representatives Beto O'Rourke and Joe Sestak; Mayor of South Bend, Indiana, Pete Buttigieg; Governor of Montana, Steve Bullock; Author Marianne Williamson; and Businessman Andrew Yang.

Bennet, who launched the 2019 Agricultural Exports Expansion Bill in the Senate this year to expand agricultural trade with Cuba, believes U.S. policy toward the island has been unsuccessful, including the Trump administration's approach.

His colleague Warren told the newspaper that the deepening of relations between the two countries during Barack Obama's administration was a pragmatic step that recognized that sanctions and isolation had failed to achieve U.S. goals.

Klobuchar agreed that five decades of the blockade imposed by Washington against Cuba has not achieved US government policy objectives in that country, a better way forward would allow Americans the freedom to travel and do business there, and lifting that trade blockade would open a huge export market, create jobs and support the economies of both nations.

On the other hand, Buttigieg and Bullock think that the citizen rapprochement between the two countries, has the support of the world community and that ranchers and farmers from US as well as a lot of companies are looking for new markets, and this is a good opportunity'. (ACN)