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    1. Congressional Black Caucus trip to Cuba was a needed venture

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Format:
    Newspaper Article
    Publication Date:
    Apr 15-Apr 21, 2009
    Published:
    Cleveland, OH
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Call & Post
    Journal Title Details:
    15 : 4A-A.4
    Notes:
    Members of the Congressional Black Caucus, including Ohio Congresswoman Marcia Fudge, have been taking it on the chin in some quarters for a fact-finding trip to Havana, Cuba, to meet with that nation's president. Since the Kennedy administration in the 1960s in the wake of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the tiny island 90 miles off the coast of the U.S. has been embargoed and isolated.

    2. Cuba: U.S. Restrictions on Travel and Remittances

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Sullivan,Mark P. (Author)
    Format:
    Pamphlet
    Publication Date:
    2016-04-06
    Published:
    Washington, DC: Library of Congress, Congressional Research Service
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    39 p., Restrictions on travel to Cuba have been a key and often contentious component in US efforts to isolate Cuba's communist government since the early 1960s. Under the George W. Bush Administration, restrictions on travel and on private remittances to Cuba were tightened. Congress took action in March 2009 by including two provisions in the FY2009 omnibus appropriations measure (P.L. 111-8) that eased restrictions on family travel and travel related to marketing and sale of agricultural and medical goods to Cuba -- Subsequently, in April 2009, President Obama announced that his Administration would go further and allow unlimited family travel and remittances. Tables.