Reply #6: Your post couldn't be much clearer [View All]

[Judi Lynn]

It should make complete sense to the sensible, Osolomia. People tend to listen to folks who have actually been there. It's easy to tell the ones who have from the ones who have posted, claiming to have been there, but having only gibberish to offer, when questioned!
Here's some more info. on the travel ban:

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II. The Sun-Sentinel
U.S. travelers hurry to beat restrictions
Vanessa Bauza
July 13, 2003

Havana · Sure, she knew the tour was a bit skewed, perhaps too rah, rah.Nevertheless, Margo McAuliffe came away from her 10-day trip through Cuba "a fan."

"I'm the reason they want the travel ban kept," quipped the California retiree, referring to the Bush administration.

"I came here somewhat under the influence that Castro is a bad guy," said McAuliffe, sitting in a Havana hotel lobby. "I felt this was one place I wasn't hearing the truth. I feel our government has an ax to grind." (snip)

(snip) Thousands of Americans have visited Cuba since the "people to people" exchanges were created in January 1999 under the Clinton administration. Alumni associations, museum patrons, steam engine enthusiasts, Little League teams -- they all took advantage of the new licensing category to visit Cuba legally. (snip)

(snip) Meanwhile, the Bush administration has relaxed travel restrictions for Cuban Americans, the bulk of licensed travelers to Cuba, making it easier for them to visit relatives. It also increased the amount of cash they can take back to their families, from $300 to $3,000 each quarter.

Though most of the money is spent in state-owned stores, the Cuban American National Foundation supported the increase, arguing some of it trickles down to dissident groups and helps develop a civil society on the island. (snip/...)

http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-milwaukee/2003-July/001004.

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Isn't it CONTEMPTIBLE that one day the Cuban American National Foundation, after years and years of insisting that one thin DIME spent in Cuba would "shore up Castro's regime" suddenly, after Bush increases the limits of money Cuban-Americans can take to Cuba, judges this a great move, as the money "trickes down to dissident groups and helps develop a civil society on the island?"

OUTRAGEOUS. These bastards are so slimey. What a treat knowing Bush is throwing away American interests and rights in the interest of grabbing their whorish votes and campaign contributions.