Hundreds to protest Bush administration's travel restrictions to Cuba

[Judi Lynn]

Posted on Tue, Apr. 26, 2005


Hundreds to protest Bush administration's travel restrictions to Cuba

BY RAFAEL LORENTE

South Florida Sun-Sentinel


WASHINGTON - (KRT) - As a National Guard medic stationed in Iraq, Carlos Lazo transported wounded U.S. Marines from the fierce fighting in Fallujah last year.

Back home from his one-year tour in Iraq, Lazo wants to travel to Cuba to see his two teenage sons. But tough new travel restrictions imposed by the Bush administration are keeping Lazo from going back to Cuba for another year. The rules only allow Cuban-Americans to visit the island once every three years and Lazo last saw his sons two years ago.

"Now I have to wait another year to visit my children in Cuba. This is nonsense in my opinion," said Lazo, a former Miami resident who now lives in Seattle. "The administration talks about family values, but at the same time they prevent us to help our families."

Lazo and about 700 activists from across the country will converge on Washington for Cuba Action Day Wednesday to protest the travel restrictions and support members of Congress who are introducing legislation that would repeal the limits on travel to Cuba.
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http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/nationworld/sfl-acuba27apr27,0,6815991.story?coll=sfla-newsnation-front

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

1. Use DeLay's pix smoking a BIG Cuban cigar from Time magazine...

It's in another DU thread under politics

[Judi Lynn]

3. Yeeewwwww! Went there and got it, thanks to you. (I think!)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=1748625

Whoever gets ill from this can blame you and xray s, who posted it originally where you saw it.

It's the oddest thing I've seen for a long time, as I've watched this bustard howl in the House during the regular sessions in which bi-partisan members try to get the travel ban dropped.

Delay stands there and pounds the lecturn, shouting and bawling at the top of his shrivelled little lungs about how much he wants to see Cuba collapse under the U.S. embargo.

So he gets his Cuban "exile" friends in Florida to sneak them out for him. Now that's NO CLASS AT ALL.

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

4. Sorry...should of warned you that pix is nauseating.

[sasquatch]

2. I have something to say to all the Republican backing Cubans of Florida

Life is like eating at a restaurant: you order shit, you eat shit. Now suck it up and suffer the wrath that you helped bring upon us.

[Crunchy Frog]

5. Actually, I think that Cuban Americans should have EXACTLY

the same rights to travel in Cuba as everyone else in America does. If they don't like their own rights being restricted, then they should lobby to try to get the law changed for everybody.

Until then, have them call a waaaaaaahmbulance.

(Ducking to avoid flames.)

[wakeme2008]

6. Let's see in 2004 they voted for Bush with his travel restrictions vs

Kerry who was for the old restrictions...

Guy you got what you voted for....

[Mika]

7. True, but Kerry supported a ban on Americans travel to Cuba

Didn't matter which one you voted for on this issue if you were not of Cuban descent, our 4th amendment constitutional righs are being violated.





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