Hang on a second; are you saying that American's are forbidden from visiting Cuba? This is something that's new to me (I thought the diplomatic sanctions were mostly import/export bans), I had no idea it extended to boycotting the tourism industry and the free movement of US citizens.
Could you give me a little bit more information on that last post BK; I'm keen to patch up this gap in my knowledge of the subject...
EDIT: Goddamit, that's like the third time Guis has fastposted me today...
Wayne wrote:Wow, with a voice like that Dancing Mustard must get all the babes!
Garth wrote:Yeah, I bet he's totally studly and buff.
After this coworker of mine was fined (it was news to me too) i asked around, and even called a friend of mine from the service who's in the government now. He said it is illegal because they are our enemies. I asked "are we at war with them", and he said yes. I of course asked him when did congress declare war on Cuba? The answer (he is very right wing) was a long tirade about how i had "deserted" my country and therefore could not understand. Call any travel office, they'll tell you that you can't fly there from here, and if you go through Canada, they will find out, as they carefully monitor the flight manifests for Americans. Looks like we have a kind of "Berlin Wall" thing going on here.
b.k. barunt wrote:After this coworker of mine was fined (it was news to me too) i asked around, and even called a friend of mine from the service who's in the government now. He said it is illegal because they are our enemies. I asked "are we at war with them", and he said yes. I of course asked him when did congress declare war on Cuba? The answer (he is very right wing) was a long tirade about how i had "deserted" my country and therefore could not understand. Call any travel office, they'll tell you that you can't fly there from here, and if you go through Canada, they will find out, as they carefully monitor the flight manifests for Americans. Looks like we have a kind of "Berlin Wall" thing going on here.
Well thank you. That's remarkably interesting; I had no idea.
Who says intelligent discussion never happens in Flame Wars...
Wayne wrote:Wow, with a voice like that Dancing Mustard must get all the babes!
Garth wrote:Yeah, I bet he's totally studly and buff.
The embargo on Cuba actually doesn't technically prevent a U.S. citizen from traveling to Cuba anymore per se. That bit lapsed under Carter. It does however prevent a U.S. citizen from having any type of commercial transaction while there without a special license issued by the U.S. government. These can be tricky to get.
It used to be pretty easy to get around this by traveling to Mexico with any other ID (i.e. driver's license) in addition to a passport, then from Mexico to Cuba and back with your passport. Then to "lose" your passport in Mexico and travel back to the U.S. with your other ID, and apply for a new passport when you got back. Now that a passport is required for travel to and from Mexico, I don't know how you get around the customs people without getting a license, or getting let off under general license status.
That's a bit vague. What precisely do you want to know? Who am I to prattle on about Cuba when no one in this forum has seen me before? I was just reading around the forums and thought I'd share what information I had.
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