RebeldePorLaPAZ
8th November 2003, 19:39
A US Senate committee has voted in favour of ending a 40-year-old ban on Americans travelling to Cuba.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted 13-5 to end the travel restrictions, which President John F Kennedy introduced in 1963.
In a similar move, the full Senate last month voted to bar the use of government money to enforce the ban.
The proposed law is likely to go to a final vote next year, but the White House has threatened to veto the bill.
The Bush administration says travel restrictions are a way of denying economic resources to what it calls the "brutal regime" of Fidel Castro.
The proposed bill would withhold funds to enforce the travel ban, effectively ending the restrictions.
FULL STORY AT BBC.COM (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3250171.stm)
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted 13-5 to end the travel restrictions, which President John F Kennedy introduced in 1963.
In a similar move, the full Senate last month voted to bar the use of government money to enforce the ban.
The proposed law is likely to go to a final vote next year, but the White House has threatened to veto the bill.
The Bush administration says travel restrictions are a way of denying economic resources to what it calls the "brutal regime" of Fidel Castro.
The proposed bill would withhold funds to enforce the travel ban, effectively ending the restrictions.
FULL STORY AT BBC.COM (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3250171.stm)