Kerry Would Encourage Travel To Cuba
POSTED: Monday, June 7,
UPDATED: 9:36 am EDT June 7,
2004
MIAMI -- Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry is
telling the Miami Herald that as president he would encourage
"principled travel" to Cuba and lift the cap on gifts to its
people. 
The Massachusetts senator says that new measures announced by the White House last month to restrict travel and cap gifts to the country are nothing more than an election-year move by President George W. Bush. The new measures include restricting family visits by
Cuban-Americans to once every three years instead of the current
once-per-year. There's also a $1,200-per-year limit on
dollar transfers that Cuban-American families can send to the
island. Kerry tells the newspaper those rules only punish the Cuban
people and not Fidel Castro.
The Massachusetts senator says that new measures announced by the White House last month to restrict travel and cap gifts to the country are nothing more than an election-year move by President George W. Bush. The new measures include restricting family visits by
Cuban-Americans to once every three years instead of the current
once-per-year. There's also a $1,200-per-year limit on
dollar transfers that Cuban-American families can send to the
island. Kerry tells the newspaper those rules only punish the Cuban
people and not Fidel Castro.
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