Church Leaders to Bush Administration: Stop Restricting Religious Travel to Cuba

Representatives from churches around the United States and members of congress met with executive branch officials yesterday to protest new travel restrictions to Cuba. “The meeting,” writes Pablo Bachelet in today’s Miami Herald, “was in response to a March 3 bipartisan letter signed by 105 lawmakers, asking the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control to explain why travel licenses for some U.S. church groups were not being renewed.”

The government’s response:

“Sadly, people began skirting the sanctions by traveling under the guise of ‘religious’ activities,’‘’ said Treasury spokeswoman Molly Millerwise. “Steps were taken to structure the licenses to better preserve the integrity of legitimate religious travel.”

Ah, the “few bad apples” defense. The U.S. government’s Cuba travel policy grows even more ridiculous.

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