If you are a US citizen or a US resident your travel to Cuba
will not be simple. The Washington government does not want you
to see life in Cuba with your own eyes, does not want you to talk
to cuban people, does not want you to swim on cuban beaches and
to dance salsa in cuban clubs. That's sad.
The unlicensed travel to Cuba by US citizens or residents is subject to
civil penalties and criminal prosecution upon return to the United States.
OFAC is watching you, well, as good as they can.
Read more...
And yet thousands of you come every year and stay in our homes. Welcome to
Cuba! Be our guests! We greet you almost daily here, we know your stories
of clandestine travel through Nassau, Toronto or Cancun. (Many tips for you
are posted in Cuba Forum on Lonely Planet).
For our part we owe you a word of assurance:
We don't reveal your travel and reservation data to anyone.
Only you can write us about your reservation issues using the
same email address you have used when you made you original reservation.
No chance for emails such as "Hey, I'm a brother
of Mike Moore travelling on your reservation in Cuba and need to contact him
about an urgent family matter". We had it in the past, we put
the mails in the spam folder.
Well, if you want to read more about the economic war against Cuba
(this being apart from the propaganda war) here is what you'll find
on Wikipedia:
American business leaders and free marketers in particular argue that, as long as the
embargo continues, non-U.S. foreign businesses in Cuba do not have to compete with
U.S. businesses and thus will have a head start when and if the embargo is ended.
They openly call for an end to the embargo.
Religious leaders oppose the embargo for a variety of reasons, including humanitarian and
economic hardships the embargo imposes on Cubans. Pope John Paul II called for the end to
the embargo during his 1979 pastoral visit to Mexico, and again during his 1998 visit to Cuba.
Patriarch Bartholomew I called the embargo a "historic mistake" while visiting the island on
January 25, 2004. United States religious leaders have also opposed the embargo. A joint
letter in 1998 from the Disciples of Christ and the United Church of Christ to the U.S. Senate
called for the easing of economic restrictions against Cuba. Rev. Jesse Jackson, Rev.
Al Sharpton, and Minister Louis Farrakhan have also publicly opposed the embargo.
On May 15, 2002 former President Jimmy Carter spoke in Havana, calling for an end to
the embargo, saying "Our two nations have been trapped in a destructive
state of belligerence for 42 years, and it is time for us to change our relationship."
The Foreign Minister of the Republic of Cuba, Perez Roque called the embargo 'an act of genocide'.
Cuba has also denounced as "theft" the use of frozen Cuban assets to pay for lawsuits filed
in the US against the Republic of Cuba.
In addition to the Cuban authorities, film director
Michael Moore has also challenged the
embargo by bringing 9/11 rescue workers in need of health care to Cuba to obtain subsidized
health care.
Payments in bitcoins for accommodation in Cuba accepted here.
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