Los Angeles Times, 3/15/09
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...Cuban Americans' travel to the communist island nation just got easier under guidelines issued last week by the Obama administration.
The Treasury Department confirmed that Cuban Americans may visit extended relatives as well as close family members once a year and spend as much as $179 a day without fear of prosecution, effective immediately.
The guidelines signal a trend toward looser enforcement of the U.S. embargo on Cuba.
"I know people are celebrating today," said Silvia Wilhelm of Miami, director of the Cuban American Commission for Family Rights, who wants all Americans to be able to visit Cuba.
"I'm sure we'll see an increase in travel, maybe by 20% or 25%," she predicted. "But the main thing is that this addresses a human need for people to see their families."
I think for me the most special thing about this decision is that it's a step closer toward a new economic and trade relationship with Cuba, a country that threatens our very capitalist society, that its mere existence is a perpendicular disagreement with the US economic perspective and ideals of which gave us the distinguished nickname "The Land of the Free."
Though I think both America and Fidel Castro VIA Cuba hurt each other for their own "justified" reasons, it might be about time to start to squash the beef little-by-little for the sake of the Cuban-Americans that are away from their family, friends and "patria."
I hope that these government decisions will be the first of more decisions to reform the American global reputation into a better one =)
-gs1r-
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