Scholars, artists rip U.S. embargo of Cuba

“Prominent Cuban-American scholars and artists, calling U.S. policy toward Cuba a ”political and moral failure,” are pressing the Bush administration to open travel to the island.

The group, named Emergency Network of Cuban American Scholars and Artists for Change in U.S.-Cuba Policy, or ENCASA, is launching a publicity campaign against the U.S. trade embargo and Cuba travel ban. Current U.S. policy bars American tourists from traveling to Cuba but allows Cuban exiles to visit direct family — but not aunts, uncles or cousins — once every three years.”

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