New Cuba vessel limits are issued (Bush orders)

[Judi Lynn]

Local & State - July 13, 2004


New Cuba vessel limits are issued

Measure targets boats under 100 meters

By GRANT BOXLEITNER , [e-mail]
Published by news-press.com on July 12, 2004


New U.S. traveling restrictions at sea require vessels less than 100 meters going from the United States into Cuban territorial waters to first obtain a Coast Guard-issued permit.

Violators may face civil penalties up to $25,000 a day and an on-the-spot ticket of up to $10,000 and vessel forfeiture if the Coast Guard can prove the operator went to Cuba.

The new boat restrictions, effective Thursday, accompany new restrictions on Cuban-American travel to the communist nation and the shipment of gift parcels.

Few boats less than 100 meters travel to Cuba from Florida. Before Thursday, the permit requirement applied only to Florida-based vessels, and 263 permits were issued between September 2002 and Oct. 1, 2003, said Petty Officer 2nd Class Anastasia Burns, a spokeswoman for the Coast Guard in Miami. Just 68 permits have been requested between October 2003 and June 15, 2004, Burns said
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http://www.news-press.com/news/local_state/040712cubaboat.html

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[Judi Lynn]

2. He's playing for the right-wing extremist vote, just like a Republican

However, the majority in the House and Senate contradict this position now. There may be a chance when they all come back in September to see them going well past the reach of a veto.

They've been getting closer every year! In the meantime, Cuba has embarrassed them by catching the guy John Ashcroft just put a huge bounty on recently.

I've been waiting to see if _Bush is going to acknowledge it, but it looks as if he's just sitting on his butt (where have we seen THAT before?) while he has Uribe in Colombia go through the motions of getting him extradited, at which time I'm sure _Bush will spring into action and extradite him from Colombia: 3rd rate leadership, for sure. Also _Bush has steadfastly refused to work together in joint operations in drug matters after Cuba has offered repeatedly. In the past, Clinton did, in some instances, work quietly with Cuba, himself in drug matters, if I'm not mistaken.

Posted on Sat, Jul. 10, 2004


Drug baron reported held entering Cuba


BOGOTA - (AP) -- Luis Hernando Bustamante, an alleged leader of Colombia's largest drug cartel, has been arrested in Cuba, Colombia's police chief said Friday.

The Cuban government informed Colombia that Bustamante, better known by his alias ''Rasguno,'' was arrested July 2 after entering Cuba on a false Venezuelan passport, Gen. Jorge Daniel Castro told reporters.

''At this moment he is being held by the attorney general in Cuba and we are involved in discussions to bring him back to Colombia,'' the police chief said. ``He is one of the biggest Colombian narco-traffickers.''

The cartel to which Bustamante is linked is suspected of smuggling more than $10 billion worth of cocaine into the United States.

There was no immediate confirmation from the Cuban government, which has not reported on the arrest in its official media.

Bustamante is among the top three leaders of the Norte del Valle cartel, which supplanted the Medellín and Cali drug organizations in the early 1990s and is the source of as much as 60 percent of the U.S. cocaine supply, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration.
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http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/world/americas/9121897.htm?ERIGHTS=-200601305036466083miami:&KRD_RM=3mkmlmmlnkjppmjjjjjjjjjsko|

[Vogon_Glory]

3. There Goes The Yachtsmen!

What, the Boosh regime is making yachtsmen have to apply for permits to travel to Cuba? Well, there goes the yachtsmen's voting block! <snicker>

While not numerous, people who have enough dough to mess around in the water in something larger than a bass boat also have enough money to give to political campaigns. Something tells me that a lot of the money that the yachtsmen would have given to the Boosh Regime will either only go to local Banana Republicans or will stay home.

If there are any trolling yachtsmen reading this missive, if you've decided not to give to George the Inept's re-election campaign this year, consider giving what would have been your campaign contribution to something like Ocean Conservancy or the World Wildlife Federation. You'll feel better, and you can use the money as a tax deduction.

Hopefully we'll all see each other in Havana next year!

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