Human Rights Watch: Cuba Travel Ban Hurts Families

They may be blowing in the wind, but Human Rights Watch has issued a major report slamming the U.S. ban on travel to Cuba, as well as the Cuban government’s restrictions on travel for its own citizens.

As a result of the U.S. travel ban, the organization reports: “A Cuban-American woman in Miami was forced to end her frequent trips to care for her ailing father, a widower with advanced Alzheimer’s disease and no immediate relatives left in Cuba. She was unable to help or comfort him as he succumbed to depression, stopped eating, and eventually died. A U.S. army sergeant, denied permission to visit his two sons in Cuba during a two-week furlough from active duty in Iraq, was forced to return to the front lines feeling he had been unable to ‘fulfill [his] obligation as a father.’”

Needless to say, the report makes a strong case for easing restrictions.

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