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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 14:12:06 -0700 From: John Young <jya@pipeline.com> Subject: <nettime> Choking Fidel and Us To: nettime <nettime-l@bbs.thing.net>

The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control has issued for public comment new restrictions on travel to Cuba with increased penalties for violations. The proclaimed intent is to harm Cuba's economy by reducing income from tourism and educational travel.

http://cryptome.org/fac061604.htm

It would be helpful if non-US nations increased promotional efforts for tourism and educational travel to Cuba. All persons might wish to comment on the proposed nastier interference in Cuban sovereignty.

This action has come in response to Bush's Cuba study commission, instituted to recommend US actions to undermine the Cuban government. The committee issued its report in early May:

http://www.state.gov/p/wha/rt/cuba/commission/2004/c12237.htm

Lebbius Woods, an architect and Cooper Union professor, who defied Cuba travel restrictions is being hounded by Treasury for payment of a $75,000 fine, with salary and other income at threat from the obsessed free marketers. Lebbius is showing recent work in his new book, The Storm and The Fall, on June 26 at the Center for Architecture, 536 La Guardia Place, NYC, 6:30-8:30PM, with party at 9:00 PM the same day, at his studio 80 Nassau Street, in downtown Manhattan.

For the party, RSVP to 212-227-5079.

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