Cuba Travel Restrictions

After 50 Years, Cubans Hope To Travel Freely

AP | PAUL HAVEN | Posted 05.02.2012

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HAVANA — After controlling the comings and goings of its people for five decades, communist Cuba appears on the verge of a momentous decision to...

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Cuba Says Travel Restrictions To Remain In Place

AP | By PAUL HAVEN | Posted 02.22.2012

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HAVANA -- President Raul Castro on Friday put on ice highly-anticipated plans to ease travel restrictions on Cubans, telling lawmakers the nation woul...

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Eighteen Times the Castro Regime Has Said No... Tomorrow Will They Let Me Travel?

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 02.21.2012

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Yoani Sanchez

The suitcase keeps looking at me. "When will we travel?" I imagine its worn-out wheels asking me. And I can only answer that perhaps this Friday in a parliament -- without real power -- some decree will return to me a right I should have always enjoyed.

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House Republicans Unveil $1 Trillion Spending Bill

AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 02.13.2012

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WASHINGTON — Republicans yielded on policy affecting communist Cuba and Democrats gave way on new energy standards for light bulbs to seal an ag...

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Cuba Government Refuses Me a Travel Permit 16 Times in 4 Years. Will 17th Time Be a Charm?

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 10.03.2011

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Yoani Sanchez

Tthe ability to leave and enter the country has been a method of ideological coercion. Obtaining the "white card" that allows us to leave our insularity, or the "empowerment" to enter our own country, has been conditioned on our being "politically correct."

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The Long Distance Run-Around

Margarita Alarcon | Posted 09.20.2011

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Margarita Alarcon

To say that one state controls US policy towards Cuba is in fact silly and insane. Its not one state, its worse.

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When Ninety Miles Is an Abyss: My Sister Leaves Cuba

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 08.06.2011

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Yoani Sanchez

I remember when my sister told me she'd entered her name into an international visa lottery. Yunia was always very lucky in games of chance, so I knew what to expect from the outset.

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Obama To Change Cuban Travel Restrictions

AP | By BRENDAN FARRINGTON | Posted 09.20.2011

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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- President Barack Obama plans to loosen Cuban travel policy to allow students and church groups to go to the communist country, th...

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Not Fidel's Cuba Anymore When Los Aldeanos Perform in Miami

Anya Landau French | Posted 05.25.2011

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Anya Landau French

Letting Cuban underground rappers perform in Miami shows Havana being pragmatic or fair, or both, and it's just one more indication that we're no longer dealing with Fidel Castro's Cuba.

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Quick Wit in Politics

Margarita Alarcon | Posted 05.25.2011

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If there is one thing Americans have to be very proud of is their wit. The fact that the American sense of humor knows no bounds is indisputably an ab...

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Travel - A Catalyst for Transforming the Relationship Between Cuba and America

Barney Harford | Posted 05.25.2011

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Barney Harford

The U.S. today has an historic opportunity to put aside half a century of division and build a new future with one of its closest neighbors by ending the ban on travel to Cuba.

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'Cruel' Cuba Embargo Must Be Lifted: Fidel Castro

AP | WILL WEISSERT | Posted 05.25.2011

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HAVANA — Fidel Castro said Tuesday the Obama administration's softening of sanctions is "positive although minimal," and criticized it for leavi...

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Cuba: Island in the Dream

James Moore | Posted 05.25.2011

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James Moore

True freedom and capitalism are likely to sweep the island like an intoxicant if America ever gives Cuba actual business reconsideration.

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CANF's Role In Shaping Cuba Policy A Break From The Past (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 05.25.2011

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Amid increasing excitement in the Cuban-American community, President Obama today finally made official his reversal of Bush administration travel res...

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Obama Lifting Cuba Travel Restrictions

AP | ROBERT BURNS | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — In a measured break with a half-century of U.S. policy toward communist Cuba, the Obama administration lifted restrictions Monday o...

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U.S. Congress Set To Open Cuban Exiles' Passage Back Home

Miami Herald | LESLEY CLARK AND FRANCES ROBLES | Posted 05.25.2011

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The 1,128-page budget bill that will begin to work its way through Congress this week contains key paragraphs that alter the shape of U.S.-Cuba policy...

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