Confused Students Travel In Cuba

Confused Students Travel In Cuba
Juan Paxety. Paxety Pages, March 31, 2006.

Pravda reports on a group of American University students who are
visiting Cuba The article begins with the usual claims that the Bush
administration is tightening the embargo.

"They're trying to find more ways to get tough with Cuba," said Philip
Brenner, a Cuba expert and associate dean at American University in
Washington D.C.

"This is a foretaste of more restrictions that will prevent Cubans and
Americans from dealing with each other at all," he said.

Brenner helped set up the trip. If he's a Cuba expert, he should know
that one of the exceptions to the Cuba travel restrictions is a trip for
legitimate educational institutions.

The article says the students are confused by the contradictions between
castro's claims about the superiority of socialism and the lack of
material wealth of the people.

"I've traveled a lot and for me it has been very frustrating," said
21-year-old Jessica Skinner, of Grand Junction, Colorado. "I came here
being very anti-embargo and now that I'm here, I'm confused."

Confused. Maybe by the end of her four month trip Jessica will
understand the lies she's been told throughout her schooling. Communism,
despite its favor in American academic institutions, never works.

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