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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.
American
students get rare look at Cuba
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