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Among the signatories are Cuba's well-known blogger Yoani Sanchez, Elizardo Sanchez, the head of Cuba's most prominent human rights group, and Guillermo Farinas, a journalist who has been on hunger strike for three months demanding the release of the country's most seriously ill political prisoners.
Of course, the current travel ban is quite easy to ignore or evade, simply by traveling through a third country.
But it does raise the question - who wants to keep the travel ban in place, and why?
Of course, the current travel ban is quite easy to ignore or evade, simply by traveling through a third country.
But it does raise the question - who wants to keep the travel ban in place, and why?
Excellent question, and I don't have a clue.
To venture a guess, they are giving time for various trans-national corporations time to form a plan to rape and strip the nation of Cuba of every piece of value and worth in order to drive down land prices which developers can then move into to build mega hotels and casinos to fleece American's fleeing their own shattered nation of their last few coins?
I don't think it is so easy to get around the ban. If there is a Cuban stamp in your passport you owe Uncle Sam some money and be his guest for up to 10 years.
"On October 10, 2006 the United States announced the creation of a task force made up of officials from several US agencies that will pursue more aggressively violators of the US trade embargo against Cuba, with severe penalties.[19] The regulations are still in force and are administered by the U.S. Treasury Department, Office of Foreign Assets Control. Criminal penalties for violating the embargo range up to ten years in prison, $1 million in corporate fines, and $250,000 in individual fines; civil penalties up to $55,000 per violation."
The ban is counter productive. With Americans crawling all over the island, the communists would fall pretty quickly.
I don't think it is so easy to get around the ban.
It's fairly easy. You can just go through an airport like Caracas (which doesn't have US customs agents, like Cancun or Toronto) and ask the customs agent in Havana to stamp a temporary passport insert rather than the passport itself. It's similar to how some people staple their Yellow Fever cards into the backs of their passports if they travel frequently to affected countries.
Of the 50,000 or so Americans who go to Cuba each year without Treasury Department permission, I think only 10 to 20 end up getting fined.
It's fairly easy. You can just go through an airport like Caracas (which doesn't have US customs agents, like Cancun or Toronto) and ask the customs agent in Havana to stamp a temporary passport insert rather than the passport itself. It's similar to how some people staple their Yellow Fever cards into the backs of their passports if they travel frequently to affected countries.
Of the 50,000 or so Americans who go to Cuba each year without Treasury Department permission, I think only 10 to 20 end up getting fined.
cuba doesnt stamp passports
You pay to get a tourist card that you give back when leaving there is no stamp in your passport
It's fairly easy. You can just go through an airport like Caracas (which doesn't have US customs agents, like Cancun or Toronto) and ask the customs agent in Havana to stamp a temporary passport insert rather than the passport itself. It's similar to how some people staple their Yellow Fever cards into the backs of their passports if they travel frequently to affected countries.
Of the 50,000 or so Americans who go to Cuba each year without Treasury Department permission, I think only 10 to 20 end up getting fined.
Yup. Just ask me how I know.
I love the little talk on the way back to the US on cruises, how the dogs supposedly can distinguish between cuban and DR cigars. Trust me, that ain't the case. Just trying to scare people into smoking what they got before they make port.
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