Cuba Turns To Ex-Pats Against Bush

[Judi Lynn]

Cuba Turns To Ex-Pats Against Bush

HAVANA, May 24, 2004



Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo (Photo: AP)



"The president has backed himself into a corner constructed by extremists in Miami without a thought to its consequences."
Washington attorney Jose Pertierra


(CBS) By CBS News Producer Portia Siegelbaum


Havana rallied support this weekend among overseas Cubans for its confrontation with the Bush administration's latest get-tough-on-Castro policy.

A three-day meeting in Havana drew nearly 500 Cubans living abroad. Two hundred-and-twenty of them came from the United States despite Washington's threat to prosecute or fine those who attended if they didn't first get a special license from Washington to attend the meeting.

As they converged on Havana, a bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers introduced legislation on Capital Hill that would require an annual congressional review of the 40-year-old trade embargo. Its sponsors are all strong proponents of easing trade and travel restrictions on the communist island as a way to promote the growth of democracy there.

Also, a bipartisan group of top business leaders and former and current government officials sent an open letter to President Bush. It urges the administration to join the majority in Congress seeking to lift all restrictions on humanitarian trade and free travel to Cuba.
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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/05/24/world/main619264.shtml

[Mika]

1. Its too bad that the Dem party can't seem to get on board

I think that many politically/socially interested Americans will get their socks knocked off when they can hop on a plane and go to Cuba.

Kudos to those that defied the unjust US travel ban. :thumbsup: :thumbsup: