Transcript: Highway A Cross-Section Of Cuba

LIANE HANSEN
NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday
08-02-2009
Highway A Cross-Section Of Cuba

Host: LIANE HANSEN
Time 12:00-13:00 PM


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Legislation pending in Congress would lift the ban on Americans traveling to Cuba. The travel ban is part of the U.S. embargo that's been in place for the past five decades. American journalists are exempt from the current ban and NPR's Jason Beaubien recently did a bit more traveling across the island than he'd bargain for. He sent this Reporter's Notebook from Havana.

JASON BEAUBIEN: I had no intention of driving across Cuba. I had a one-week visa and I didn't want to spend much of that time in a car. But in Cuba, sometimes what you ...

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