Overlooking a Ferry Important Fact

PUBLICADO PARA HOY 8 DE MARZO


BY: CAPITOL HILL CUBANS


An article in yesterday's Orlando Sentinel conjures up images of American travelers taking a cheap ferry ride to Cuba -- and overlooking the insensitivity that the Castro regime prohibits Cubans from even approaching a vessel without risk of fine or imprisonment.

It reads like an advocacy pitch from businessmen in pursuit of a quick dollar and others looking to unconditionally normalize relations with the Castro regime.

Yet, it fails to mention a very important fact.

Just last week, President Obama extended the U.S.'s national emergency on the anchorage and movement of vessels from the U.S. to Cuba.

Thus, Obama would have to rescind the national emergency before such a ferry can operate, which seems unlikely considering it was just re-extended.

You'd think this would have been mentioned in the article, but there was too much zeal (and not enough fact).