“Fifty-nine percent of Americans, including 56 percent of Latinos, approve of the recent decision for the US to provide diplomatic recognition of Cuba,” the poll released Wednesday by Telemundo, MSNBC and the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion said.
Wednesday’s poll also found that 57 percent of all respondents and 78 percent of Latinos also approve President Obama’s executive action on immigration. While over half of the US citizens surveyed were are also in favor of the Obama administration’s sanctions against Venezuelan government officials for inciting violence during peaceful protests in Caracas in 2014.
From April 10 to 11, President Obama will meet with leaders from the Western Hemisphere at the Summit of the Americas meeting to discuss policy solutions to current challenges in the region.
During the meeting, Obama is expected to speak with Cuban President Raul Castro — who will be attending the annual meeting for the first time — about their countries’ attempt to improve relations for the first time since the early 1960s.
On Tuesday, the White House said that US Department of State’s decision on whether to remove Cuba from the State Sponsors of Terrorism list would be made soon.
Cuba and the United States are still negotiating how they will improve their diplomatic ties. Havana’s removal from the sponsor of terrorism designation, however, is one of the major demands that Cuba has made before agreeing to any normalized relations with Washington or reopening the US embassy in Cuba.
