travel to Cuba
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Received: 02:47 PM CDT, 06/30/2011
From: "ricardo calvo"
Subject: among marxists
THE SOCIALIST REGIMEN OF BHO HAS BEEN FACILITATING THE TRAVELING OF
EDUCATIONAL GROUPS TO THE MARXIST-RULED ISLAND OF CUBA. IN THIS ARTICLE
FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES ONE CAN SEE THAT THERE AT LEAST FOUR ORGANIZATIONS
THAT ARE PLANNING TO TRAVEL TO CUBA TO FOMENT PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE CONTACT
WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?..
WELL ACCORDING TO THE ARTICLE THE TRIPS INVOLVES MEETINGS WITH
PROFESSIONALS, LOCAL ARTISTS, ENJOY A PRIVATE CONCERT, VISIT TO AN
ORPHANAGE, VISIT TO A COMMUNITY PROJECT THAT PROMOTES CULTURE, NIGHTS
LISTENING TO PERCUSSION MUSIC AND DANCES, VISITS TO A VIOLIN MAKER AND A
DAIRY FARM OPERATOR YOU CAN READ BY YOURSELF !
BESIDES THE FACT THAT THIS POLICY OF THE MARXIST REGIMEN OF BHO IS NOTHING
MORE THAN A MANEUVER TO HELP THE MARXIST GOVERNMENT OF CUBA TO REFILL ITS
COFFERS THAT ARE SOMEWHAT DEPLETED BECAUSE AFTER ALL AT A MUCH CHEAPER
COST ALL THE PARTICIPANTS OF THESE TRIPS CAN ENJOY CONCERTS, VISITS TO
ORPHANAGES, VISIT TO A VIOLIN MAKER AND A DAIRY FARM RIGHT HERE IN THE USA
(IOWA for example) .INCLUDING THE VISIT TO A COMMUNNITY PROJECT AND
ORGANIZER RIGHT IN WASHINGTON, DC AT THE WHITE HOUSE WHAT COULD BE MORE
CONVENIENT ! !
_____
June 30, 2011
New Ways to Visit Cuba Legally
By MICHELLE HIGGINS
The New York Times
ALWAYS wanted to visit Cuba
hammer sickle.jpg
Thanks to policy changes by President Obama earlier this year designed to
encourage more contact between Americans and citizens of the Communist-ruled
island, the Treasury Department is once again granting so-called
people-to-people licenses, which greatly expand travel opportunities for
Cuba-bound visitors.
· The licenses, created under President Bill Clinton in 1999,
stopped being issued in 2003 under travel restrictions imposed by President
George W. Bush. Subsequently, the number of travelers from the
< http://travel.nytimes.com/travel/guides/north-america/united-states/overvie
w.html?inline=nyt-geo > United States visiting Cuba legally dropped from more
than 200,000 in 2003 to less than 50,000 in 2004, according to estimates by
Bob Guild, vice president of < http://marazul.com/ > Marazul Charters in
North Bergen, N.J., among the largest United States organizers of trips to
Cuba.
· The new changes, which come on top of loosened restrictions for
Cubans and Cuban-Americans visiting relatives in Cuba, are expected to push
the number of travelers visiting Cuba this year to 450,000 this year. We
estimate 375,000 to 400,000 Cuban Americans will visit this year and another
50,000 in other categories of legal travel, said Mr. Guild of Marazul.
To be clear, it is still illegal for ordinary American vacationers to hop on
a plane bound for Cuba, which has been under a United States economic
embargo for nearly 50 years with exceptions for students, journalists,
Cuban-Americans and others with legal reasons to travel there). And while
Washington has also expanded licensing for educational groups traveling to
Cuba by loosening requirements, travelers joining an educational trip must
still receive credit toward a degree.
But other organizations, including
· Collette Vacations,
· the National Geographic Society and
· the National Trust for Historic Preservation, are still waiting to
hear from Washington
· the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, which operated four
trips to Cuba between 2001 and 2003, has yet to receive theirs
· In all, only eight companies had been issued people-to-people
licenses by the end of June, according to the Treasury Department.
Thirty-five applications were still pending.
Guidelines published by the Treasury Department say the tours must have a
full-time schedule of educational exchange activities that will result in
meaningful interaction between the travelers and individuals in Cuba. In
terms of hotels, service may not be quite as good and the Internet
connection is incredibly slow and frustrating, said Ms. Moore of Distant
Horizons. But, she said, they have all the facilities youd expect:
swimming pools, little gyms. And there are a lot of very good private
restaurants.
Demand for Cuba is so strong that tour operators say that many of the trips
already have long waiting lists.
· Learning in Retirement, an educational program associated with the
University of Wisconsin in La Crosse, which is offering a 10-day
people-to-people trip in April, said more than 65 people have already
expressed interest for its 35 spots. Thats just through word of mouth,
said Burt Altman, a retired professor who organized the trip. We havent
even put out the itinerary.
Following is a list of planned people-to-people trips to Cuba.
· HARVARD UNIVERSITYS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION, alumni.harvard.edu, will
take a group of 35 to Havana for five days in late October, led by Julio
Cesar Pérez Hernández, the Cuban Loeb Fellow at Harvard University Graduate
School of Design, to explore the city and meet professionals, including
local artists and enjoy a private concert at the Ceramics Museum with
guitarist Luis Manuel Molina. Cost: $3,880 a person based on double
occupancy, including airfare from Miami
< http://travel.nytimes.com/travel/guides/north-america/united-states/florida
/miami/overview.html?inline=nyt-geo > .
· INSIGHT CUBA, insightcuba.org
offering several trips that include a weekend in Havana that costs $1,795
and visits an orphanage; Callejon de Hammel, a community project promoting
art
< http://travel.nytimes.com/travel/guides/art/overview.html?inline=nyt-classi
fier > , music
< http://travel.nytimes.com/travel/guides/music/overview.html?inline=nyt-clas
sifier > and culture; the Instituto de Cubano de Amistad con los Pueblos
(Cuban Institute of Friendship With the People), an international Cuban
organization that promotes cultural relations between the United States and
Cuba; and an eight-night Cuban Music and Art Experience ($4,095), where
visitors meet the staff at Egrem, the Cuban state record company,
participate in a percussion and dance workshop, visit local music schools
and talk to musicians during rehearsal at a famous Havana jazz club.
· LEARNING IN RETIREMENT, uwlax.edu/conted/lir/index.html
< http://www.uwlax.edu/conted/lir/index.html > , is offering a 10-day trip in
April 2012 visiting a range of professionals from Santiago de Cuba
< http://travel.nytimes.com/travel/guides/caribbean-and-bermuda/cuba/santiago
-de-cuba/overview.html?inline=nyt-geo > to Trinidad
< http://travel.nytimes.com/travel/guides/caribbean-and-bermuda/trinidad-and-
tobago/tobago/overview.html?inline=nyt-geo > including a violin maker and a
dairy farm operator. Cost: $4,300 for members who pay a $35 annual fee.
· CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART AND COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN,
corcoran.org, plans to offer an eight-day trip in November, pending a
license. The trip, led by Mario Ascencio, the museums library director,
will explore the art scenes of Havana and Trinidad, a Unesco World Heritage
Site. Guests will attend a cocktail reception at the Ludwig Foundation,
which promotes Cuban contemporary artists, and meet local curators, artists
and gallery owners. Cost: $3,700 a person, including round-trip airfare from
Miami for guests who pay $60 for a museum membership.
Received: 02:47 PM CDT, 06/30/2011
From: "ricardo calvo"
Subject: among marxists
THE SOCIALIST REGIMEN OF BHO HAS BEEN FACILITATING THE TRAVELING OF
EDUCATIONAL GROUPS TO THE MARXIST-RULED ISLAND OF CUBA. IN THIS ARTICLE
FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES ONE CAN SEE THAT THERE AT LEAST FOUR ORGANIZATIONS
THAT ARE PLANNING TO TRAVEL TO CUBA TO FOMENT PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE CONTACT
WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?..
WELL ACCORDING TO THE ARTICLE THE TRIPS INVOLVES MEETINGS WITH
PROFESSIONALS, LOCAL ARTISTS, ENJOY A PRIVATE CONCERT, VISIT TO AN
ORPHANAGE, VISIT TO A COMMUNITY PROJECT THAT PROMOTES CULTURE, NIGHTS
LISTENING TO PERCUSSION MUSIC AND DANCES, VISITS TO A VIOLIN MAKER AND A
DAIRY FARM OPERATOR YOU CAN READ BY YOURSELF !
BESIDES THE FACT THAT THIS POLICY OF THE MARXIST REGIMEN OF BHO IS NOTHING
MORE THAN A MANEUVER TO HELP THE MARXIST GOVERNMENT OF CUBA TO REFILL ITS
COFFERS THAT ARE SOMEWHAT DEPLETED BECAUSE AFTER ALL AT A MUCH CHEAPER
COST ALL THE PARTICIPANTS OF THESE TRIPS CAN ENJOY CONCERTS, VISITS TO
ORPHANAGES, VISIT TO A VIOLIN MAKER AND A DAIRY FARM RIGHT HERE IN THE USA
(IOWA for example) .INCLUDING THE VISIT TO A COMMUNNITY PROJECT AND
ORGANIZER RIGHT IN WASHINGTON, DC AT THE WHITE HOUSE WHAT COULD BE MORE
CONVENIENT ! !
_____
June 30, 2011
New Ways to Visit Cuba Legally
By MICHELLE HIGGINS
The New York Times
ALWAYS wanted to visit Cuba
hammer sickle.jpg
Thanks to policy changes by President Obama earlier this year designed to
encourage more contact between Americans and citizens of the Communist-ruled
island, the Treasury Department is once again granting so-called
people-to-people licenses, which greatly expand travel opportunities for
Cuba-bound visitors.
· The licenses, created under President Bill Clinton in 1999,
stopped being issued in 2003 under travel restrictions imposed by President
George W. Bush. Subsequently, the number of travelers from the
< http://travel.nytimes.com/travel/guides/north-america/united-states/overvie
w.html?inline=nyt-geo > United States visiting Cuba legally dropped from more
than 200,000 in 2003 to less than 50,000 in 2004, according to estimates by
Bob Guild, vice president of < http://marazul.com/ > Marazul Charters in
North Bergen, N.J., among the largest United States organizers of trips to
Cuba.
· The new changes, which come on top of loosened restrictions for
Cubans and Cuban-Americans visiting relatives in Cuba, are expected to push
the number of travelers visiting Cuba this year to 450,000 this year. We
estimate 375,000 to 400,000 Cuban Americans will visit this year and another
50,000 in other categories of legal travel, said Mr. Guild of Marazul.
To be clear, it is still illegal for ordinary American vacationers to hop on
a plane bound for Cuba, which has been under a United States economic
embargo for nearly 50 years with exceptions for students, journalists,
Cuban-Americans and others with legal reasons to travel there). And while
Washington has also expanded licensing for educational groups traveling to
Cuba by loosening requirements, travelers joining an educational trip must
still receive credit toward a degree.
But other organizations, including
· Collette Vacations,
· the National Geographic Society and
· the National Trust for Historic Preservation, are still waiting to
hear from Washington
· the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, which operated four
trips to Cuba between 2001 and 2003, has yet to receive theirs
· In all, only eight companies had been issued people-to-people
licenses by the end of June, according to the Treasury Department.
Thirty-five applications were still pending.
Guidelines published by the Treasury Department say the tours must have a
full-time schedule of educational exchange activities that will result in
meaningful interaction between the travelers and individuals in Cuba. In
terms of hotels, service may not be quite as good and the Internet
connection is incredibly slow and frustrating, said Ms. Moore of Distant
Horizons. But, she said, they have all the facilities youd expect:
swimming pools, little gyms. And there are a lot of very good private
restaurants.
Demand for Cuba is so strong that tour operators say that many of the trips
already have long waiting lists.
· Learning in Retirement, an educational program associated with the
University of Wisconsin in La Crosse, which is offering a 10-day
people-to-people trip in April, said more than 65 people have already
expressed interest for its 35 spots. Thats just through word of mouth,
said Burt Altman, a retired professor who organized the trip. We havent
even put out the itinerary.
Following is a list of planned people-to-people trips to Cuba.
· HARVARD UNIVERSITYS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION, alumni.harvard.edu, will
take a group of 35 to Havana for five days in late October, led by Julio
Cesar Pérez Hernández, the Cuban Loeb Fellow at Harvard University Graduate
School of Design, to explore the city and meet professionals, including
local artists and enjoy a private concert at the Ceramics Museum with
guitarist Luis Manuel Molina. Cost: $3,880 a person based on double
occupancy, including airfare from Miami
< http://travel.nytimes.com/travel/guides/north-america/united-states/florida
/miami/overview.html?inline=nyt-geo > .
· INSIGHT CUBA, insightcuba.org
offering several trips that include a weekend in Havana that costs $1,795
and visits an orphanage; Callejon de Hammel, a community project promoting
art
< http://travel.nytimes.com/travel/guides/art/overview.html?inline=nyt-classi
fier > , music
< http://travel.nytimes.com/travel/guides/music/overview.html?inline=nyt-clas
sifier > and culture; the Instituto de Cubano de Amistad con los Pueblos
(Cuban Institute of Friendship With the People), an international Cuban
organization that promotes cultural relations between the United States and
Cuba; and an eight-night Cuban Music and Art Experience ($4,095), where
visitors meet the staff at Egrem, the Cuban state record company,
participate in a percussion and dance workshop, visit local music schools
and talk to musicians during rehearsal at a famous Havana jazz club.
· LEARNING IN RETIREMENT, uwlax.edu/conted/lir/index.html
< http://www.uwlax.edu/conted/lir/index.html > , is offering a 10-day trip in
April 2012 visiting a range of professionals from Santiago de Cuba
< http://travel.nytimes.com/travel/guides/caribbean-and-bermuda/cuba/santiago
-de-cuba/overview.html?inline=nyt-geo > to Trinidad
< http://travel.nytimes.com/travel/guides/caribbean-and-bermuda/trinidad-and-
tobago/tobago/overview.html?inline=nyt-geo > including a violin maker and a
dairy farm operator. Cost: $4,300 for members who pay a $35 annual fee.
· CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART AND COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN,
corcoran.org, plans to offer an eight-day trip in November, pending a
license. The trip, led by Mario Ascencio, the museums library director,
will explore the art scenes of Havana and Trinidad, a Unesco World Heritage
Site. Guests will attend a cocktail reception at the Ludwig Foundation,
which promotes Cuban contemporary artists, and meet local curators, artists
and gallery owners. Cost: $3,700 a person, including round-trip airfare from
Miami for guests who pay $60 for a museum membership.
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