Is Cuba Safe for Tourism?

Ray Walser / November 09, 2009

Ask Yoani Sanchez

Many members of Congress support legislation calling for changes in U.S. law to allow free travel by all Americans to Cuba. The measure parallels an earlier decision made by the Obama Administration to remove travel restrictions for most Cuban-Americans.

The chief assumption behind the bill is that an influx of U.S. visitors will moderate Cuban hostility to the U.S. and democratic practices and open the door to the give-and-take of a free society.

News from Cuba that prominent dissident and courageous blogger Yoani Sanchez, unofficial spokesperson for a generation of disillusioned Cubans, was briefly abducted by Cuban secret police and beaten on November 6 is cause for concern. (more…)