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Go to Mexico or Canada, or anywhere in Central America or the Carribean on a return ticket.
Once there, purchase your ticket from a non-US flagged airline, and travel to Cuba. Airlines only report to the US if they're flying to/from the US. If the ticket is issued in conjunction with your domestic ticket, US also has visibility of the whole itinerary.
MOD Note: A few of you have been skirting real close to illegal suggestions here, so just a reminder that City-Data does not advocate, nor does it condone the posting of, any illegal activities.
Moderator, there are discussions advocating or tolerating illegal activities in almost every thread in these forums, from illegal pollution control in the Automotive forum to ordering glasses online with a Rx that is out of date, to establishing false residence to avoid out of state tuition fees, to ordering goods on line and not voluntarily remitting sales tax to your state of residence, to stealing an extra napkin when leaving McDonalds, to how much over the speed limit you can drive without risking a ticket, to throwing AA batteries in the household trash, to occupyiing Wall Street, to disparaging a protected class, to teenage smoking and drinking and adult recreational drug use, to the criminal actions of Rosa Parks. Not to mention medical and legal and pharmacological advice given by unqualified practitioners.
Just something to keep in mind if thinking about censoring a thread merely because it references or even advocates a technical violation of a law that is never enforced. My reading of the TOS, by the way, is that it proscribes illegal language or content, not discussion of illegal activity. It would have been worded very differently and unambiguously if such a prohibition were its intent. The First Amendment exists exactly to free the American people to advocate resistance to unjust laws.
I do find the law to be ridiculous. We live in a free country and we are supposed to have free will as long as we are not hurting anybody else in the process. I don't understand how traveling to Cuba is hurting any other person in this country. It is an unfair law that I feel is a violation of my freedom.
I was looking at the websites of some of these groups that offer "legal" trips to Cuba.
I noticed two things right off
1 They are not cheap. For the price and value of the peso in Cuba, one could travel to about any other Caribbean country far cheaper
2 The "Educational" tours look like fronts for an excuse to just take a group there. one offers a "Latin Jazz" educational tour, which will include attending performances by local jazz musicians. THIS could well equal sitting in a bar drinking for hours on end and listening to some jazz singer. Nothing wrong with that, I do it on cruises and in other countries all the time, but it seems like a flimsy way to skirt the law on Cuban travel.
Personally, I am totally against the travel ban. I do not encourage people to break the law to travel there, but I do not agree with that aspect of foreign policy. But that is a better thread for the political board. . rse
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