http://www.biomedcentral.com/news/20040310/04/US scientists blocked from Cuba
Officials would not issues licenses for travel to conference on coma and death
US scientists intending to travel to Cuba for a conference on coma and death this week were informed five days before the opening ceremony that they would not be permitted to attend.
The bureau that enforces restrictions on travel to Cuba – the Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) – has yet to give its final ruling on the matter, even though the meeting is underway. But last Thursday (March 4) it issued “guidance” that US delegates would most likely not receive authorization for the trip.
Between 75 and 100 US delegates were due to attend the Fourth International Symposium on Coma and Death, which started on 9 March and runs for four days in Havana. US nationals would have accounted for about half the audience.
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This is maddening,” said Mary White of Wright State University, one of the frustrated US delegates. “The director of the coma conference, Dr. Calixto Machado, is a leader in this field. From a professional standpoint, we in the US would like to keep up with what he has to say.”
“The point for us is that this conference deals with important issues for the healthcare of people around the world, including Americans,” she said. “The issues surrounding coma and death have direct implications for organ transplantation as well as the care and treatment of people in persistent vegetative states and minimally conscious states.”
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the rest of the world knows that we are fools
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