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Politics : About that Cuban boy, Elian -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: George Papadopoulos who wrote (7807)	6/27/2000 2:20:00 PM
From: gamesmistress	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9127

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.

To: George Papadopoulos who wrote (7807)	6/27/2000 2:50:00 PM
From: marcos	Respond to of 9127

"Cubalinda.com believes that the U.S. government's effective banning of travel to Cuba, except for limited exceptions granted by license, is as absurd as the well-known historical U.S. paranoia toward Cuba. For reasons that are not always clear or consistent, the political class in the United States, beginning at least as early as the administration of Thomas Jefferson, has never been able to accept the idea of a truly independent Cuba. The main fear seems to have been, and certainly seems true today, that if this island and its people are not under firm control of Washington, they are likely to become a threat to U.S. national security. This view ironically prevails today despite Pentagon assurance that Cuba is no threat to U.S. national security. More specifically, one may assume that banning travel to Cuba today is one way to prevent Americans from seeing first-hand the achievements and successes of the Cuban Revolution, as in the educational and public health systems." cubalinda.com A little overstated the last sentence, that is not imho what the average cubano on the street thinks, but the mutual paranoia thing is kept very much alive by the Mas Santos and Burton types ... it's just the dark side of an intense love/fear relationship between two nations only ninety miles apart ... proof that as a species we have a ways to go to get rational.