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Article: CUBA: TREASURY DEPARTMENT CRACKS DOWN ON UNAUTHORIZED TRAVEL TO CUBA.
- Article from:
- NotiCen: Central American & Caribbean Affairs
- Article date:
- August 30, 2001
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The US Treasury Department, through its Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), has begun to enforce restrictions on travel to Cuba by US citizens.
News of the crackdown followed within days a promise by President George W. Bush to toughen US sanctions against Cuba. Before Bush issued his first six-month waiver of a key provision in the 1996 Helms-Burton Act in mid-July, he pledged to bring democracy to Cuba by strengthening the trade embargo and other sanctions. He ordered the Treasury Department to reduce "unlicensed and excessive travel" to Cuba and to enforce limits on the amount of dollar remittances that could be sent to Cuba (see NotiCen, 2001-07-26).
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