Bush is counting on public ignorance so don't expect the networks to report on what's happening until after the fact. The interent enables us to find out for oursleves if we want.
It was not until 1997 when Pope John Paul announced his historic trip to Cuba that Washington finally lifted its travel restrictions on journalists going there, so no wonder the public knew nothing but propaganda.
As a result of the Pope’s visit to Cuba and plea to lift the embargo, in 2000 Congress eased the restrictions to allow food and medicine and people-to-people contact to get through the blockade.
Since then, hundreds of US Senators and House Reps and Governors and legislators and farmers from over 40 states have gone to Havana and met with Castro and signed over a $billion in agricultural deals.
For 4 years in a row Congress voted to lift the travel ban but the language undemocratically disappears before it gets to Bush’s desk since he says he’ll veto it anyway.
Bush has tightened the trade and travel restrictions instead. He has also set up a $59 million Commission for regime change in Cuba headed by Condoleeza Rice.
No wonder he’s trying to prevent the Cubans from playing in the World Baseball Classic when he’s counting on the same ignorant hysteria that enabled passage of the Helms-Burton Act that tightened the embargo 10 years ago this March.
Here’s a few links to information that Bush and his propagandists are depending on the public to know nothing about
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http://news.google.ca/news?hl=en&ned...nG=Search+News http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaNews/ http://www.lawg.org/countries/cuba/intro.htm http://ciponline.org/cuba/index.htm
Hopefully enough Americans have learned the lessons of basing foreign policy on the lies and bullshit of exiles and aren’t about to allow the same mistake to be made again.