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Article: Hundreds of Americans travel to Cuba for trade show.(The Dallas Morning News)
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- September 24, 2002
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HAVANA _ Hundreds of Americans are streaming into Cuba for the first trade show of its kind in more than four decades.
The event is stirring passion and controversy on both sides of the Florida Straits as everyone from Texas rice producers to Washington politicians debate whether to do business with the socialist nation.
Officials say 750 Americans representing 288 companies from 33 states will take part in the U.S. Food & Agribusiness Exhibition, which begins Thursday.
The state sending the most companies is Florida, where for decades many Cuban exiles have urged that the United States maintain its longtime ban on trade with the island. That ...