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US Senator Opposed to Funds for Anti-Cuba Policy.

CUBA, April 4, 2011.- John Kerry, chairman of the influential US Senate’s Committee on Foreign Relations, said last Friday that he will oppose the approval of a $20-million budget submitted by the government to promote actions against Cuba.

A communique by the legislator says the Administration should consult the Congress on this issue, and states that he advocates the full revision of these anti-Cuba programs, which have cost US tax payers over $150 million.

Kerry, who was a presidential candidate for the Democratic Party, expressed his ideas on this funding for 2012, which would be considered within the fiscal year that begins on 1 October.

As it is known, these moneys would go to the coffers of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), which reports to the State Department.

The USAID used Development Alternatives Inc. (DAI) as a front to distribute materials to counterrevolutionary factions in Cuba, an action that led to the arrest and subsequent trial against U.S. citizen Alan Gross, an employee of that firm.

Recently, a Cuban court imposed a 15-year prison sentence on Gross for the crime of acts against the independence or territorial integrity of the State. (Cubaminrex-ACN-RHC)