Obama allowing travel, money transfers to Cuba

Does anyone know if the water pipe at the gates of Gitmo are still uncovered?
 
Damocles said:
Rather than prop up the synthetic and crappy economic stagnation in Cuba with dollars given them, we should go all the way, at the very least for efficiency sake they'll go the way of China and begin giving some economic freedom while maintaining heavy control in all other areas and Socrtease won't have to admit breaking the law with pictures of illegal cigars.
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If they were allowed to export those wonderful cigars, they could have a serious income for their nation and we could have some seriously good smokes.
 
In response to Cuba's alignment with the Soviet Union during the Cold War, President John F. Kennedy extended measures by Executive Order, first widening the scope of the trade restrictions on February 7 (announced on February 3 and again on March 23, 1962). According to former aide, Kennedy asked him to purchase 1,200 Cuban cigars for Kennedy's future use immediately before the extended embargo was to come into effect. Salinger succeeded, returning in the morning with 1,200 Petit H. Upmann cigars, Kennedy's favorite cigar size and brand.[6] Following the Cuban Missile Crisis, Kennedy imposed travel restrictions on February 8, 1963, and the Cuban Assets Control Regulations were issued on July 8, 1963, under the Trading with the Enemy Act in response to Cubans hosting Soviet nuclear weapons. Under these restrictions, Cuban assets in the U.S. were frozen and the existing restrictions were consolidated.

Multilateral sanctions were imposed by the Organization of American States (OAS) on July 26, 1964, but these were abandoned on July 29, 1975.

The restrictions on U.S. citizens traveling to Cuba lapsed on March 19, 1977; the regulation was renewable every six months, but President Jimmy Carter did not renew it and the regulation on spending U.S. dollars in Cuba was lifted shortly afterwards. President Ronald Reagan reinstated the trade embargo on April 19, 1982. This has been modified subsequently with the present regulation, effective June 30, 2004,[7] being the Cuban Assets Control Regulations, 31 C.F.R. part 515.[8] The current regulation does not limit travel of US Citizens to Cuba per se, but it makes it illegal for US Citizens to have transactions (spend money or receive gifts) in Cuba under most circumstances without a US government Office of Foreign Assets Control issued license.[9]
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_embargo_against_Cuba#Helms-Burton_Act
 
A person who disobeys a law should face the consequences. If he thinks the law is unwise or unfair then he should work to change the law, not simply ignore it.

But then again, I have a moral compass.
 
Southern Man said:
A person who disobeys a law should face the consequences. If he thinks the law is unwise or unfair then he should work to change the law, not simply ignore it.

But then again, I have a moral compass.
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I have a moral compass. It points towards good cigars. lol

So you are claiming you never break any laws?
 
Southern Man said:
It is yo who made the assertion and therefore your responsibility to prove it.
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The new travel to Cuba policy was announced by bush on October 10th 2003.
Obama used the same authority to rescind it.
I'll ask again, what would you do, if you were a Cuban and your parents still lived in Cuba? That is exactly why Cubans have been going there without regard for the stupid bush edict keeping families apart. A license was already required,(Conservatives take note), and the amount of money spent while there was already restricted. bush cowtowed to a very militant faction of the Miami Cuban Community, most Cubans opposed it as evidenced by their response to the Obama announcement last week.
 
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