Posted on 07/20/2004 7:55:46 PM PDT by freedom44
Groups of American protesters have returned without incident to U.S. soil after deliberately defying new rules increasing travel restrictions to Cuba. . About 90 members of the Venceremos Brigade, a group that opposes U.S. policies toward Cuba, re-entered the country Monday on foot in groups of 15, carrying banners and pulling suitcases behind them. . While U.S. citizens have been making such trips for the past 35 years, the latest travelers were the first to directly challenge new rules that further tightened restrictions. The new rules, which took effect June 30, cut the amount of money Cuban émigrés can send home and curtailed visits to Cuba by cultural and academic groups and Cuban Americans. BUFFALO, New York Groups of American protesters have returned without incident to U.S. soil after deliberately defying new rules increasing travel restrictions to Cuba. . About 90 members of the Venceremos Brigade, a group that opposes U.S. policies toward Cuba, re-entered the country Monday on foot in groups of 15, carrying banners and pulling suitcases behind them. . While U.S. citizens have been making such trips for the past 35 years, the latest travelers were the first to directly challenge new rules that further tightened restrictions. The new rules, which took effect June 30, cut the amount of money Cuban émigrés can send home and curtailed visits to Cuba by cultural and academic groups and Cuban Americans.
My only question would have to be: "Why?"
The travel restrictions, combined with the policy of returning would-be cuban immigrants if they are caught in the water even though it condemns them to certain jail, along with whatever else is done to them, is tremendously hypocritical.
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