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 5/10 Good --- weblogs.sun-sentinel.com http://weblogs.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/dcblog/index.xml
| William E. Gibson, who has been covering Washington for the Sun-Sentinel for nearly 25 years, writes on politics and policies that affect South Floridians. ... |
Wednesday, May 21, 2008 --- 64 days ago http://weblogs.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/dcblog/2008/05/bush_send_cell_phon
 President Bush announced today an exception to the rigid embargo of Cuba: a new policy that allows Americans to send cell phones to their relatives on the island.
They still can’t visit their families more than once every three years. They can’t send more than $300 of cash over a three-month period. But they can, and should, send cell phones, Bush said.
He and other Castro-bashers want to open up communications with average Cubans to give them more exposure to the world outside the island on the hope it will build pressure for democratic reforms. It’s also a challenge to Cuba’s restrictions on free speech.
Cubans are allowed to buy mobile phones, but few can afford them.
``If the Cuban people can be trusted with mobile phones, they should be trusted to speak freely in public,'' Bush told an audience at the White House, including former Cuban political prisoners.
Bush also signed a proclamation designating today as the first annual U.S. ``Day of Solidarity with the Cuban People.’’
His remarks were broadcast to the island via Radio Marti, a U.S. Spanish-language service based in South Florida.
U.S. officials and anti-Castro members of Congress long have believed that Cuba’s isolation from the rest of the world stifles pressure to open up the political and economic system. They point to the transformation of the Soviet empire after Russians and eastern Europeans were exposed to Radio Liberty and other broadcasts from the ... |
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