Cuba travel sites embargoed by US

[Judi Lynn]

Cuba travel sites embargoed by US
Blacklist extends to more than 60 websites...

By Anne Broache

Published: Monday 11 July 2005

Americans should think twice before booking a Cuban holiday through scores of travel websites that the US government has deemed to be off-limits.

The US Treasury Department has blacklisted more than 60 Cuba-centric sites, many maintained by a travel company called Tour & Marketing International. The last update to the list was published by the department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on 30 June.

Certain travel-oriented websites made it to the verboten list because they provide easy access to Cuba for Americans who choose to break the law, the OFAC says. While visiting the sites may be permitted, downloading software from them probably isn't.

The reason lies in a section of federal law prohibiting people living under US jurisdiction from doing business with those on the OFAC's list of "specially designated nationals", a category that also includes known terrorists, narcotics traffickers and rogue regimes, such as Iraq, Iran and Syria. (Many of the Cuba sites have been on the list since a December update.)
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http://management.silicon.com/government/0,39024677,39150223,00.htm

[Oversea Visitor]

1. Havana Cigars anyone?

How about some cuban bananas real nice really.

[arwalden]

2. Hello? Someone Needs To Tell The WH That Our Cuban Policy Is Backward...

... and largely ineffective at achieving its intended goals. It's regressive and retarded. Nothing more than the remnants of a 45 year old pissing contest. Get over it... move ON!