{"id":13502,"date":"2011-08-17T12:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T09:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=13502"},"modified":"2011-08-17T12:01:01","modified_gmt":"2011-08-17T09:01:01","slug":"us-activists-mobilize-against-restrictions-on-cuba-travel-13502","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/us-activists-mobilize-against-restrictions-on-cuba-travel-13502\/","title":{"rendered":"US Activists mobilize against Restrictions on Cuba Travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_13503\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13503\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13503\" title=\"cuba-restriction-us-nationalturk-1678\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/cuba-restriction-us-nationalturk-1678.jpg\" alt=\"Cuba Travel : Diaz Balart Family and Draconian Measures\" width=\"610\" height=\"340\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13503\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cuba Travel : Diaz Balart Family and Draconian Measures<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1>Cubans resident in the United States and nongovernmental organizations have sent thousands of letters, faxes, and e-mails to the White House expressing opposition to a bill that would restore restrictions on travel to Cuba and Cuba tours.<\/h1>\n<p>Despite all the messages, an amendment to a White House budget law sponsored by Florida Republican Mario Diaz-Balart was &#8220;still a threat,&#8221; according to commentator Alvaro F. Fernandez of Radio Progreso in Miami.<\/p>\n<p>The Diaz-Balart amendment seeks to return to the George W. Bush era, when Cuban-Americans could only travel to Cuba to visit their families once every three years, Fernandez added.<\/p>\n<h2>Cuba Travel and Cuba Tours : The Diaz-Balart family amendment<\/h2>\n<p>Last month, the American government declared it did not support the amendment and that President Barack Obama would veto it if contained language on Cuba, Fernandez said.<\/p>\n<p>The amendment would also limit family remittances to $300 per quarter and strictly define who was a family member.<\/p>\n<h3>Cuba Travel : Diaz Balart Family and Draconian Measures<\/h3>\n<p>Following Diaz-Balart, other members of Congress such as Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, David Rivera, and others, are insisting on the restoration of Draconian measures, Fernandez said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #f00;\">Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 10)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cubans resident in the United States and nongovernmental organizations have sent thousands of letters, faxes, and e-mails to the White House expressing opposition to a bill that would restore restrictions on travel to Cuba and Cuba tours<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":562,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,80,63,118,34,101,14],"tags":[17159,16958,17161,14518,16576,17155,17156,17158,17157,17160,1388],"class_list":["post-13502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-hot","category-latin-america","category-politics","category-world","tag-american-government","tag-cuba-america","tag-cuba-restrictions","tag-cuba-tours","tag-cuba-travel","tag-cuba-united-states","tag-diaz-balart","tag-diaz-balart-amendment","tag-diaz-balart-family","tag-draconian-measures","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/562"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}