Bush Tightens Rules on Travel to Cuba

[peterh]

http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040226/API/402260979

WASHINGTON --
President Bush tightened U.S. restrictions on travel to Cuba on Thursday, saying that Fidel Castro's government has taken steps to destabilize relations with the United States over the past year.

Bush signed an order to expand the government's authority to prevent the unauthorized departure of ships from U.S. waters bound for Cuba. He said U.S. authorities would be empowered to inspect any vessel in the territorial waters of the United States and take other steps if necessary

Bush's order would tighten enforcement of the U.S. embargo on Cuba by making it harder for unauthorized vessels to enter Cuban territorial waters.

Bush said that over the past year, Cuba has taken a series of steps to destabilize relations with the United States, such as threatening to rescind migration accords with the United States and to close the U.S. interests section in Havana. Further, he said that Cuba's top officials have repeatedly said that the United States intended to invade Cuba, despite explicit denials from the United States.






If we’ve learned anything in the last three years, it’s that a denial from * usually ends up being a friggin lie….I sense the crosshairs are set…just waiting for an opening and / or creating that opening….