WASHINGTON TODAY: Critics Left and Right See Bush Errors on Cuba Policy

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WASHINGTON TODAY: Critics Left and Right See Bush Errors on Cuba Policy

By George Gedda Associated Press Writer
Published: May 5, 2004

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush is positioning himself to curry favor with conservative constituents who believe his Cuba policy, for all of the anti-Castro rhetoric, hasn't added up to much.
No one doubts that Bush has tried to make life more difficult for the Cuban leader. If not for Bush's veto threats, Congress probably would have ended a ban on recreational travel to Cuba by Americans.

Indeed, Bush has moved the policy in the opposite direction, closing a loophole four months ago that many Americans were using in violation of the travel prohibition.

Bush has decried the "chokehold" that Castro maintains on the island, but some of Bush's strongest supporters among Cuban-Americans say his actions have not gone far enough.

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