Posted on 12/31/2009 7:38:54 PM PST by Nachum
(CNN) -- The brief detention in Havana, Cuba, last week of a Portland, Oregon, church group comes on the heels of the detention of an American contractor and could indicate an increasingly chilly reception for some American visitors, according to the church travelers.
The December 26 trip for 14 members of the First Unitarian Church of Portland is a reminder of the entrenched tensions between Cuba and the United States despite the Obama administration's loosening of previous restrictions.
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The Unitarians are the church of “whatever” and so I don’t know why the Cubans would get bent over it.
These people undoubtedly campaigned for her.
Castro and his crowd are not totally stupid if they're keeping this bunch out of Cuba.
The Cubans were just bent all the muzzies were getting all the attention demonstrating appeasement doesn't work.
More unexpected news as a result of half-intended consequences.
Amazingly the left still doesn’t get it. Cuba is not free.
They thought the Unitarians were actually a church, and when they discovered their mistake, they let them go.
“...the church’s social justice minister,”
Kinda’ sums it all up, doesn’t it?
Hard to know what Castro's thinking here. These people are guaranteed to be among his most craven arse-lickers.
I doubt he has to worry about alienating any of them. When Stalin was killing millions in the Soviet Gulag, a great number were Communists who, even though they knew they were innocent, insisted that the government must have had a very good reason to put them where the were.
Communism is a religion without morals.
the were should have been ... they were....
I suspect the Unies were there to have a drum circle using African gazelle skins, and Fido’s minions were afraid they would spread anthrax.
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