Restricting
Americans'' freedom to travel is an attack on our fundamental rights as
citizens, a US coalition stressed on Tuesday after the Trump administration
announced further restrictions on visits to Cuba.
Engage Cuba,
a group that seeks the end of the US economic, commercial and financial
blockade against the island in force for 60 years, criticized in a statement
the new measures of Donald Trump's administration to 'severely limit the
capacity of Americans' to travel to the neighbouring nation.
James Williams, president of the coalition, stated that the federal government should not monitor the places where US citizens are going on vacation, and considered that citizens' freedom should not be used as a tool by politicians on behalf of 'a naked partisanship'.
Also, the official set out that the news on Tuesday is harmful to the Cuban people, especially for the growing private sector of the island, whose income come in part from US travellers.
'Cubans should not be used as political pawns. They are human beings,' added Williams, who described the siege imposed on the island as morally and strategically wrong.
A statement from the State Department sought to justify the new restrictions alleging these controversial steps seek to prevent US travellers from 'enriching Cuba's military, security and intelligence services,' and returned to link such actions with the solidarity that Cuba maintains toward Venezuela and the constitutional government of Nicolas Maduro.
These prohibitions are directly linked to the tourism industry, arguing that this sector 'has served to fill the pocket of the Cuban military.'
Thus, it does not allude to the fact that the educational trips under the people to people policy, which facilitated hundreds of thousands of Americans to visit the island, has been a great boost for workers in the private sector of Cuba.
James Williams, president of the coalition, stated that the federal government should not monitor the places where US citizens are going on vacation, and considered that citizens' freedom should not be used as a tool by politicians on behalf of 'a naked partisanship'.
Also, the official set out that the news on Tuesday is harmful to the Cuban people, especially for the growing private sector of the island, whose income come in part from US travellers.
'Cubans should not be used as political pawns. They are human beings,' added Williams, who described the siege imposed on the island as morally and strategically wrong.
A statement from the State Department sought to justify the new restrictions alleging these controversial steps seek to prevent US travellers from 'enriching Cuba's military, security and intelligence services,' and returned to link such actions with the solidarity that Cuba maintains toward Venezuela and the constitutional government of Nicolas Maduro.
These prohibitions are directly linked to the tourism industry, arguing that this sector 'has served to fill the pocket of the Cuban military.'
Thus, it does not allude to the fact that the educational trips under the people to people policy, which facilitated hundreds of thousands of Americans to visit the island, has been a great boost for workers in the private sector of Cuba.
Courtesy of Prensa Latina
