This week marks 50 years of the United States embargo on all trade with Cuba. Since 1991, FIU has polled South Florida Cuban-Americans to gauge sentiment toward the embargo. The poll shows support for the policy eroding. As part of FIU News’ Panther Voices series, lead investigator and sociology professor Guillermo Grenier shares the findings.

If there was ever a consensus among Cuban-Americans in Miami about the effectiveness and necessity of the embargo, it dissolved many decades ago.In 1991, Hugh Gladwin, director of FIU’s Institute for Public Opinion Research, and I began surveying the Cuban-American community on their attitude toward the embargo as part of  the FIU Cuba Poll, a detailed survey designed to measure the political attitudes of the Cuban-American community in South Florida. The community’s attitudes toward the embargo reflect the diversity of Cuban-Americans and their vision of U.S.-Cuba relations.  Click here for the video and full article.