Groups warned to obey travel limits (to Cuba)

[Mika]

Groups warned to obey travel limits
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/11340607.htm

The U.S. government is cracking down on certain religious organizations that promote licensed travel to Cuba, restricting the number of visitors they can send to ensure that limits on U.S. citizen travel to -- and spending in -- Cuba are enforced.

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Regulators acted after reports that some groups that practice Santeria and other religious organizations were allowing people who didn't officially belong to those groups or were not practitioners to visit Cuba under their U.S.-issued religious licenses.
The Herald detailed cases in which some Santeria organizations in Miami with religious licenses were taking thousands of people to Cuba as a way to get around Bush administration travel restrictions.
The numbers of such visitors have boomed since July, when the Bush administration reduced the number of times Cubans can visit their families on the island from once a year to once every three years.
Its purpose was to reduce cash remittances to the island and increase financial pressures on Fidel Castro's government.

Good thing that the Miami Herald is doing serious investigations to limit the free movement of Cubans who want to visit their families back in Cuba. :puke: