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Traveling to Cuba legally is harder than ever!
In
May 2005, the Bush administration made it harder to travel to Cuba by phasing
out many academic, religious, and other programs which provided
opportunities for people from the U.S. to legally travel to Cuba.
Witness for Peace's delegation program is one of the programs affected
by these new regulations. Our Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) license
to legally bring delegations to Cuba expired on April 30, 2005 and our
application for a new license was denied.
Cuba remains the only country in the world that U.S. citizens are
forbidden to travel to. This is not only a violation of our freedom to
travel, but also impinges on freedom of religious groups and the free
exchange of information and ideas through academic exchanges.
This is also an assault on the Cuban family. Now, Cubans living in the
U.S. are only permitted to visit their family members in Cuba once every
three years and new changes in regulations also limit the amount of
remittances they are able to bring to family in Cuba. Most upsetting is
that there are no exceptions to these regulations, even in case of family
emergencies.
For More Information:
Contact the Witness Cuba Working Group
cuba@witnessforpeace.org
