Cuba and the Travel Ban

If Fidel Castro wants the U.S. to lift restrictions on travel to Cuba, he sure isn’t acting like it. His latest human rights violations—a crackdown on dissidents, the executions of several men—haven’t scored him any points with U.S policy-makers. In fact, he has only set back the cause. But should Castro’s behavior be the sole factor in deciding whether to lift the travel ban? No way, Philip Peters of the Lexington Institute said in a recent news story in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel about the incredibly divisive issue. “The policies we advocated have never been predicated on the idea that Castro has a good human rights record or is a nice a guy,” he said. “More than ever there needs to be contact between the U.S. and Cubans, unlimited contact.”

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