Reply #4: Americans have been banned from traveling to Cuba for over 40 years now [View All]

[Osolomia]

One of the first things Jimmy Carter did was lift the travel ban against Americans going to Cuba and one of the first things Reagan did was reinstate it.

It wasn’t until after the Vatican announced the Pope’s visit to Cuba in 1998 that Washington finally gave CNN permission to open a bureau there and other US journalists a general license to go.

It was a result of the Pope’s pleading with the USA to open up to Cuba that Clinton eased the travel restrictions and allowed “people to people” exchanges.

But earlier this year Bush banned such trips by American-Americans to keep his kingmaking Cuban-American “exiles” happy and most of the 2004 Democratic presidential candidates are still pandering to this extremist minority too, as did Gore and Liberman in 2000, despite the bipartisan majority in Congress and 38 state legislatures that want the travel ban lifted now.

38 states X 2 senators each = 76 votes despite Bush’s threatened veto and the complicit Dems.

If you were free to see Cuba for yourself it'd be hard not to notice how much the US government has been blatantly lying through its teeth to you all your life to this day.

Why the US fears Cuba
Hostility to the Castro regime doesn't stem from its failings, but from its achievements

Seumas Milne
Thursday July 31, 2003
The Guardian

… Which only goes to reinforce what has long been obvious: that US hostility to Cuba does not stem from the regime's human rights failings, but its social and political successes and the challenge its unyielding independence offers to other US and western satellite states.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/cuba/story/0,11983,1009473,00.html