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As the Bush administration tightens the U.S.trade embargo on Cuba, students, academics, religious groups and even Cuban-Americans with family on the Caribbean island are finding their "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," added Brenner, who helped arrange the four-month visit to Cuba by nine students from the university.
The students said they were at times puzzled by the contradictions between Cuban government rhetoric about the benefits of a socialist society and Cubans' lack of material wealth.
"I've "I came here being very anti-embargo and now that I'm here, I'm c...Read more...