Posted on 09/03/2009 3:56:58 PM PDT by American Number 181269513
Americans with "close relatives" in Cuba can visit the island as long and often as they would like under new rules lifting some travel and telecommunications restrictions, the U.S. Treasury said on Thursday. The rules, effective immediately, fleshed out an announcement by President Barack Obama in April to ease the U.S. trade embargo enforced on Cuba after Fidel Castro's leftist revolution half a century ago.
But the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control said Americans could spend only $179 per day on visits to family members in Cuba, including aunts, uncles, cousins and second cousins.
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Good.
I suppose Geitner our tax cheat Treasury director will be there to see that they dont spend any more.
Well this is no surprise ,we all knew it was coming.
Castro’s regime was running dangerously low on hard currency, so Comrade Obama bailed him out.
So much for equal protection of the laws. I guess it's okay for some people to be more equal than others.
I have no interest in visiting Castro's gulag, but I am still interested in seeing that our laws are faithfully executed. And, of course, I would have no "standing" to challenge the Constitutionality of this just as I apparently lack "standing" to challenge the right of the man ultimately responsible for this latest diktat to hold the office he does.
ML/NJ
Ostensibly humanitarian, but it also ensures that bad news about Cuba will never leak because said families are hostages.
Hardly a surprise, from an administration containing a known communist, and any number of hard leftists
If I can travel to Red China, I should be able to travel to Cuba.
ML/NJ
Hmm wonder how many ‘primary residences’ people will have now, while not paying their taxes and those collecting welfare?
It’s a bad law. We should have bombed Cuba with the MTV culture years ago.
Yes and Yes. We treat other (and more dangerous) Commie countries like China and Vietnam with respect and trade with them extensively, yet we have a totally unsuccesful embargo against Cuba in place. It failed to remove Castro and smacks of hypocrisy. I am not argueing for trading with them or recognizing the regime, but family travel to Cuba shouldn’t be any different than to China, Vietnam or any other Red country.
Feel free to point out the violated statute.
10 years overdue.
It's called the 14th Amendment.
ML/NJ
Which could be similarly “used” to show that to deny the gay same-sex marriage is unlawful. Be careful where you go!
That’s ‘cause (thanks to Dear Leader)...WE’RE ALL COMMUNISTS, NOW. /s
how is Vietnam dangerous?
That adjective belongs to China. :o)
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