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"Don W" wrote in message
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Gogarty wrote:
Well! I am astonished at the tone of this thread from a bunch of people
who by all rights should be off the wall right wing nuts. Bravo!

If you want to go to Cuba, what is to stop you from going via any other
country in the region rather than directly from the U.S.?

It is not the going to Cuba that is the problem. It is the coming back to
the USA with the Cuban stamp in your passport.

Heck, anyone could sail down to Cayman Brac, and then go to Cuba from
there. If you do though, you'd better be ready to "lose" your passport
and get a new one at one of the US embassies in some foreign country. A
lot of hassle just to visit a particular country.

Personally, I do not know why the USA is still embargoing Cuba when we are
running a HUGE trade defecit with Communist China, and thereby funding the
modernization of the Chinese military.

However those are the rules as of today.

Don W.
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You don't get your passport stamped. As in , officially you have never been
there. This is the risk; you get in trouble while in Cuba. But, you are
not really in Cuba .. are you. With no passport, you are a non existant
person.

Boats from the USA have been visiting Cuba for years. Many fishing boats
go. And sailboats. It helps to know how the whole system works, but the
Cubans don't care. They want the money.

Isn't this completely nuts. Cuba is 90 miles from Key West. China is over
the other side of the world. Both are Communist. You can visit Vietnam, or
anyplace else. Yet; you can't go to Cuba?

And you wonder why I think the US government is F..ked up!

What is the reason going to be once Castro takes the retirement package.
What?

There is only one reason the US government doesn't want us traveling to
Cuba; money. When Castro took over back in 1960, he took possesion of many
assets that were US company assets. The telephone system for one. Those
companies run the US government.. you know it, and I know it. This is all
about money, money money. Oh, and then we have the Cubans living in Miami.
They are a pain in the ass.

Viva la Cuba