Fascinating site. I would like to go to Cuba someday - their beaches have to be better than the Jersey shore, LOL - but I doubt if I'll make my reservations via Cubalinda. For one thing, you can't - you just get an error message in German when you click on Reservations. Also, how much do those hotels cost? I was interested to learn, though, that it is NOT illegal for US citizens to go to Cuba. You just can't spend any money there. :-)
I finally saw a Cuban embargo story in the online Miami Herald:
Deal close on sanctions
Would ease restrictions
BY JACKIE KOSZCZUK
Herald Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON -- Key members of the House agreed in principle Monday night on legislation to ease the 40-year-old economic embargo against Cuba.
House Republican leaders met late into the night with lawmakers on both sides of the emotional issue in an effort to work out differences on a bill that would relax restrictions on exports of food and medicine to Cuba. Sanctions against Iran, Libya, North Korea and Sudan would also loosen.
House Appropriations Committee Chairman C.W. Bill Young told reporters around 10 p.m. that lawmakers had reached ``an agreement in principle'' on a compromise, but that details still were being negotiated behind closed doors.
Rep. Lincoln D¡az-Balart, R-Fla., emphasized that the talks were at a delicate stage. ``Negotiations could fall apart based on one word,'' he cautioned.
The draft legislation under discussion would allow unlimited exports of U.S. commodities such as wheat, rice and grain to Cuba, provided that President Fidel Castro's government could pay for them with hard currency or with loans from other countries.
The legislation would forbid Castro to buy U.S. products with credit from U.S. banks or the government.
House Majority Leader Dick Armey, R-Texas, confirmed about 11 p.m. that those terms were among the points agreed to in principle.
Herald special correspondent Ana Radelat contributed to this report.
More like "rewrote" this report. Don't want to stir anyone up I guess. |
