Editing Ron Wyden (section)

====Cuba====
Wyden supports lifting the [[United States embargo against Cuba]] as a more viable way to reach the Cuban people. In 2016, he and Senator [[Byron Dorgan]] offered an unsuccessful amendment to end funding for [[TV Martí]], an anti-Castro broadcasting project of the U.S. government aimed at Cuba. Dorgan and Wyden argued that the U.S. should "pull the plug on U.S. government television broadcasts to Cuba, broadcasts even the American government acknowledges Fidel Castro routinely [[Radio jamming|jams]] and the Cuban people can't see", calling it a "complete and total waste of taxpayers' dollars" and noting that the transmissions would cost $21.1 million in the next year, but would "reach virtually no one in Cuba." The amendment was not adopted.<ref>"[http://epw.senate.gov/pressitem.cfm?party=rep&id=236110 Dorgan and Wyden Ask Senate to Stop $21 Million Boondoggle] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160401103242/http://epw.senate.gov/pressitem.cfm?party=rep&id=236110 |date=April 1, 2016 }}" (press release).  Majority Staff, U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.</ref><ref>{{cite web|first=Katie|last=Harr|url=http://www.coha.org/radio-and-tv-marti-washington-guns-after-castro-at-any-cost/|title=Radio and TV Martí: Washington Guns after Castro at Any Cost|website=coha.org|publisher=[[Council on Hemispheric Affairs]]|date=March 29, 2006|access-date=January 20, 2012|archive-date=April 26, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160426131909/http://www.coha.org/radio-and-tv-marti-washington-guns-after-castro-at-any-cost/|url-status=dead}}</ref>