All News Updates

04.10.2009 The Washington Times
	Time to lift travel bans -- There is much anticipation that President Obama will use the April 17-19 Summit of the Americas to announce the lifting of Cuba travel and family-remittance restrictions for Cuban-Americans.

04.06.2009 Miami Herald
	http://www.cubastudygroup.org/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressReleases.Detail&PressRelease_id=5120&Month=4&Year=2009 -- ... it's not the place of government to tell people where they can and cannot travel...

04.03.2009 Bloomberg
	Obama May Lift U.S. Travel Restrictions to Cuba, Official Says -- President Barack Obama may lift a travel ban on Cuban-Americans wanting to visit family in the communist nation, according to an administration official.

04.02.2009 NY Daily News
	At last, sane policy on travel to Cuba? -- It took nearly 50 years. But this week new bipartisan legislation was introduced in the Senate and the House to revamp the obsolete U.S-Cuba policy and lift the long-standing travel embargo.

03.31.2009 Los Angeles Times
	Ban on travel to Cuba may be lifted -- A bipartisan group of senators predicted Tuesday that Congress was ready to pass legislation to allow all Americans to travel to Cuba.

04.18.2008 Bloomberg
	Cuba Plans to Lift Foreign Travel Restrictions -- Cubans allowed to leave with more ease

03.31.2008 Seattle Times
	Cubans finally become upwardly mobile -- Cubans Gain More Rights

03.05.2008 VNUNET
	US blacklists UK Cuba travel website -- British travel websites shutdown by U.S. for offering Cuba Travel Packages to Europeans.

08.23.2007 Copyright © 2007, Orlando Sentinel
	Reach out to Cuba -- More reaction from Florida about Obama's position towards easing travel restrictions to Cuba

08.23.2007 Beyond Chron
	Obama Shows Good Foreign Policy Judgment on Cuba --

08.23.2007 The Chicago Tribune
	No signs of audacity on Cuba -- By supporting more travel, Obama proved himself to be less timid than Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), who shuns the idea. But even his proposal offers less than meets the eye.

08.23.2007 St. Petersburg Times
	Fresh Thinking on Cuba Overdue -- We're not likely to hear any of the leading presidential candidates call for normalizing relations with the Castro government, but at least Barack Obama is not afraid to call America's policy toward Cuba what it is: harmful to U.S. interests and cruel to Cuban families.

08.22.2007 Time Magazine
	Will Obama's Stance on Cuba Hurt -- Why would Barack Obama in a Tuesday op-ed piece in the Miami Herald challenge the Cuban-American elders and call for dismantling President Bush's restrictions on Cuban-Americans making visits and sending money to relatives in Cuba?

08.22.2007 CNN Washington Bureau
	Obama again stirs up decades-old debate on Cuba -- What to do about Fidel Castro is a question that dates back five decades and 10 U.S. presidencies. Candidates differ in their approach to the Cuba Travel issue

08.21.2007 www.barackobama.com
	Barack Obama's Candidate's Policy -- Barack Obama's own words about his position towards travel to Cuba

10.02.2006 Harvard Crimson
	Harvard to Launch Study Program in Cuba -- Harvard is preparing to launch a spring-semester study-abroad program at the University of Havana, despite strict federal regulations on U.S. travel to communist Cuba and activists’ concerns about academic freedom in the island-nation.

09.25.2006 Chicago Tribune
	Cuban Oil Prospects -- Known more for cigars and rum than oil rigs, this socialist nation has become the latest country drawn into the frenzied hunt for oil, hoping that a gusher in its Caribbean fields will ease its energy dependence and kick-start its economy. – 9/25/06

09.24.2006 CBS News
	U.S. Companies Flock To Cuba -- 37 U.S. States Export Food To Cuba, More Than Any Other Country

09.08.2006 ABP News
	Baptists challenge fine for travel to Cuba -- The Alliance of Baptists has filed a formal challenge to a Treasury Department fine for allegedly violating the United States' economic embargo on Cuba.

07.01.2006
	Bush Administration Updates -- In its latest report the Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba, led by Condoleeza Rice, recommends $80 million in U.S. tax dollars to again attempt to destabilize Cuba.

05.21.2006
	Rechazan manifestantes en Miami prohibiciones de viajar a Cuba -- Más de 160 personas, principalmente emigrados cubanos, se dieron cita la víspera en el centro de la ciudad, para manifestar su rechazo a las prohibiciones que le impiden viajar a Cuba a visitar a sus familiares y a otros seres queridos.

05.18.2006
	Legislative Updates – Statement by The House Cuba Working Group -- “The embargo is a spent force, at odds with America’s strategic and diplomatic interests and our nation’s values… By barring a free flow of people, commerce, and ideas, the embargo blocks contacts that would expand American influence in Cuba, including among those Cubans who will set their nation’s course after Castro leaves the scene.”

04.10. The Hill
	Obama to lift some restrictions on Cuba -- President Obama is expected to lift numerous restrictions on travel to Cuba next week in advance of a summit of Latin American leaders that begins on April 17.

.. Daily News
	At last, sane policy on travel to Cuba -- It took nearly 50 years. But this week new bipartisan legislation was introduced in the Senate and the House to revamp the obsolete U.S-Cuba policy and lift the long-standing travel embargo.