President Barack Obama made a historic trip to Cuba last week.
One of the US Congressional representatives that made the trip with the President was North Carolina Fourth District Congressman David Price.
Price described the trip to Cuba along with President Obama as “very exciting and rewarding.”
Price said it was nice to have a “home run” in the midst of turmoil abroad and domestically.
“This is something that is long overdue,” Price said. “It’s being received so well in our own country and abroad, throughout Latin America. This notion that we turned the corner on the Cold War policy – the embargo, other vestiges of the Cold War – and we opened up this US – Cuban relationship.”
Price did caution the trip didn’t mean the normalization of relationships with Cuba would go “totally smoothly.”
“You have a repressive regime in Cuba that is changing only in fits and starts,” Price said. “There needs to be change on both sides, as the President said very convincingly.
“But that change is underway, and I believe the President’s visit and the kinds of things that have happened in the last days make it irreversible.”
See pictures from the trip via Congressman Xavier Becerra.
Listen to Price’s conversation with WCHL’s Blake Hodge abut the trip to Cuba.
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