"Jim Watt" wrote in message
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On 5 Aug 2003 17:33:08 -0700, (ZZBunker) wrote:

Jim Watt wrote in message
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On 4 Aug 2003 18:08:45 -0700, (ZZBunker) wrote:

The original lease was a hundred years.
Since then, it's been extended. Since Cuba is desparately
in need of US tourism money far more than it's
need of Gitmo or UN money.

I thought it was illegal for US citizens to go there at present.

It's hardly illegal,

CNN report otherwise:

"On President George W. Bush's orders, the Treasury
Department has begun an energetic campaign to track down
and punish Americans who defy U.S. travel restrictions to the
communist-run island, the only country in the world off-limits
to most Americans."

http://www.cnn.com/2001/TRAVEL/NEWS/....us.travelban/


You missed the important paragraph from that article:

"Since May, hundreds of Americans who didn't even have their passports
stamped have received these notices, with fines that can go as high as
$50,000.
The law forbids unauthorized Americans from spending money there,
effectively preventing them from traveling. Critics say that's a violation
of the First and Fifth amendments, which guarantee freedom of expression and
other individual rights. "

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So now it's an "individual right" to defy economic sanctions?