{"id":2482,"date":"2003-04-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-04-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/cms\/?p=2482"},"modified":"2003-04-11T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-04-11T00:00:00","slug":"5724112003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/2003\/04\/11\/5724112003\/","title":{"rendered":"4\/11\/2003"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;As members of the Cuba Working Group, we condemn the Cuban government&#8217;s detention and sentencing of many Cuban citizens who have been promoting civil, political, and human rights, hosting independent libraries, or practicing independent journalism. We call on the Cuban government to reverse this course of action and release these people immediately. Our bipartisan group of Members of the United States House of Representatives has long been working to change US policy towards Cuba. Through repeated legislative victories, we have demonstrated that the majority of the House supports ending several of the key aspects of the embargo that undermine US interests, such as the ban on travel to Cuba by US citizens\u2026Many of us have visited Cuba and met with several of the Cuban citizens who now face prison sentences of 20 years or more. It is inconceivable to us that these people were involved in a conspiracy with the US Government. Rather, they were working peacefully for the benefit of the Cuban people. And ironically, many of them strongly advocate improving US policy towards Cuba &#8211; something the Cuban government says it supports. Their imprisonment removes a powerful voice for better relations between citizens of Cuba and the US. Therefore, we call on the Cuban government to immediately and unconditionally release these people, as well as all other prisoners of conscience. We also call on the Cuban government to return the property seized in this crackdown; cease intimidation of activists; and allow them to carry out their peaceful activities.\u201d [Con Embargo]<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cStatement of the House CWG on Dissidents&#8217; Sentencing,\u201d Latin America Working Group, LAWG.org, (Cuba Policy Foundation date April 11, 2003)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;As members of the Cuba Working Group, we condemn the Cuban government&#8217;s detention and sentencing of many Cuban citizens who have been promoting civil, political, and human rights, hosting independent libraries, or practicing independent journalism. We call on the Cuban government to reverse this course of action and release these people immediately. Our bipartisan group [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/2003\/04\/11\/5724112003\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from 4\/11\/2003<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-2482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","tag-quotes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2246,"url":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/1974\/07\/10\/3297101974\/","url_meta":{"origin":2482,"position":0},"title":"7\/10\/1974","author":"AmarkData","date":"July 10, 1974","format":false,"excerpt":"\"10.07.74, 07.08.74 & 14.08.74. 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In a public opinion poll conducted for the Miami Herald in February 2003, among Cuban-Americans living in South Florida, there is significant support for ending the travel ban, lifting the cap on\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;quotes&quot;","block_context":{"text":"quotes","link":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/category\/quotes\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2436,"url":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/2002\/02\/04\/526242002\/","url_meta":{"origin":2482,"position":4},"title":"2\/4\/2002","author":"AmarkData","date":"February 4, 2002","format":false,"excerpt":"\"4\/02\/2002 Asked about the increase of US visitors to Cuba, despite restrictions from Washington, the Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe P\u00e9rez Roque said to PL that this tendency \u2018is like a snowball wildly rolling over, threatening to crush those who still advocate for the blockade, although they are a powerful minority\u2019.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;quotes&quot;","block_context":{"text":"quotes","link":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/category\/quotes\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2250,"url":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/1975\/08\/21\/3358211975\/","url_meta":{"origin":2482,"position":5},"title":"8\/21\/1975","author":"AmarkData","date":"August 21, 1975","format":false,"excerpt":"\"21.08.75 The State Department announced that the Department of the Treasury\u2019s Cuban Assets Control Regulations were amended, providing that specific licenses would be issued to cases fitting certain categories of transactions between companies owned or controlled by American citizens in third countries and Cuba, when required by local laws or\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;quotes&quot;","block_context":{"text":"quotes","link":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/category\/quotes\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}