The Cuba Travel Controversy Endures, But is an End in Sight?
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 03.21.02 | 9:59 PM ET
U.S. authorities are cracking down on Americans who have traveled illegally to Cuba. Among the targets, according to Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez, are “a teacher who biked across Cuba, two Iowa grandmas who were on a diving trip and a man who visited Cuba to scatter his missionary father’s ashes next to a church he had built.” Lopez doesn’t like it. He notes in a column that a group of lawmakers today will call for an end to the Cuba travel ban that, as Lopez puts it, “makes less sense each day Fidel Castro draws a breath.” One expert predicts the legislation will be approved by Congress this year, “setting up a veto by Bush and a subsequent brawl that could go either way,” Lopez writes.
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Jim Benning is the editor and co-founder of World Hum.
