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Entries Tagged as 'Cuba'

State Department: Cuba Has Detained American Citizen

December 12th, 2009 · Corruption, Deception, Defense, Democrats, Ethics, Foreign Policy, Government Control, Homeland Security, Immigration, National Security, Non-Transparency, Obama Nominees, Obama's Scheme, Selling Out the US, Terrorism from Within

WASHINGTON — The State Department says the Cuban government has arrested an American citizen and U.S. diplomats in Havana are trying to learn more about the case.

Spokeswoman Megan Mattson says the Cuban government told the State Department that the American was detained on Dec. 5. She says the American is not a U.S. government employee.

She says the department can’t release any more details, including the American’s identity, because of federal privacy law.

The New York Times reported Saturday that the American is a U.S. government contractor who was working on behalf of the Obama administration distributing cell phones, laptops and other communications equipment in Cuba.

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Impassioned debate on Cuba travel ban

November 21st, 2009 · Deception, Dissention, Ethics, Homeland Security, House, National Security, Obama's Scheme, Selling Out the US, Terrorism from Within

At House hearing, both sides invoke name of same dissident

By Mary Beth Sheridan Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, November 20, 2009

At a tempestuous hearing Thursday, one House member after another criticized a growing campaign to lift the ban on American tourists traveling to Cuba. The move would reward a regime that oppresses its own people, lawmakers declared, pointing to the recent assault on Yoani Sánchez, a Cuban blogger and government critic, by suspected state security agents.

The beating showed that “the Cuban regime has not unclenched its fist,” said Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (Fla.), the senior Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

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Momentum Grows for Relaxing Cuba Policy

March 30th, 2009 · Government

Senate Measure Would Eliminate Travel

By Shailagh Murray and Karen DeYoung Washington Post Staff Writers
Monday, March 30, 2009; Page A01

Roughly a year after Fidel Castro stepped aside and handed much of the responsibility for leading Cuba to his brother Raúl, there is new momentum in Washington for eliminating the ban on most U.S. travel to the island nation and for reexamining the severe limitations on U.S.-Cuban economic exchanges.

At a Capitol Hill news conference scheduled for tomorrow, a wide array of senators and interest groups — including Senate Democratic Policy Committee Chairman Byron L. Dorgan (N.D.); Banking Committee Chairman Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.); Richard G. Lugar (Ind.), the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; the U.S. Chamber of Commerce; and Human Rights Watch — will rally around a potentially historic bill to lift the travel ban.

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