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NEWS
Little League's Cuba
trip criticized
August 01, 2008 6:00 AM
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — A Florida congressman is criticizing a
Vermont-New Hampshire Little League team's planned trip to Cuba next
week.
According to a column in the Washington Post, Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart,
R-Fla., an anti-Castro Cuban-American, held a meeting of the Cuba
Democracy Caucus on July 10 to discuss "the very troubling granting of a
Treasury/OFAC license to a Little League team to travel to Cuba." The 14
11- and 12-year-olds plan to be in Cuba for 10 days starting Aug. 8 for
a series of games. Americans are prohibited from traveling to Cuba
unless they get permission from the U.S. government.
The team was granted a travel license from the U.S. Treasury
Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control and is permitted to spend
U.S. money in Cuba.
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Information from: Rutland Herald,
http://www.rutlandherald.com/
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