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 News from Around the Americas | May 2005 
Thousands Of US Citizens Demand End Of Travel Restrictions To Cuba
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| | After the intensification of the blockade ordered by George W. Bush, Cuban-US individuals can only travel to Cuba once every three years. |
Washington - Thousands of US citizens from all areas of the country arrived in Washington for a so-called Cuba Action Day to call for an end to restrictions on travel to the island, two days after three senators reintroduced a bill defense of their demands.
We believe that all US citizens have the fundamental right to travel anywhere they want, affirmed Senator Max Baucus (Democrat, Montana), who presented the bill together with his colleagues Mike Enzi (Republican, Wyoming) and Byron Dorgan (Democrat, North Dakota).
We cant believably urge others to prioritize freedom if we dont even respect the most fundamental right of our citizens to travel anywhere they wish, he insisted.
Baucus stated that the recent tightening of travel restrictions even for Cuban-US individuals are inhumane and are destroying Cuban families.
Cuban-US Sergeant Carlos Lazo, who fought for the United States in Iraq all last year and is now separated from his children in Cuba, attended the conference.
When he tried to use his two-week military vacation to visit his two children in Cuba, the government refused it. I am sure that these are not the values that the United States represents, Baucus said.
From June last year, after the intensification of the blockade ordered by George W. Bush, Cuban-US individuals can only travel to Cuba once every three years instead of once a year, and can only visit direct relatives such as children, parents and siblings, but not an aunt or an uncle or a cousin, for instance.
To counteract these opinions and initiatives in search of a wider aperture towards the island, seven senators and 17 US officials who defend the blockade and travel restrictions to Cuba have launched a legislative committee. |
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