American group encourages travel to Cuba for meeting
A prominent Cuban exile group is encouraging its directors to travel to Cuba to attend a meeting of dissidents and journalists in Havana in May.
The Cuban American National Foundation said it received an invitation from Cuban dissidents and intends to find a way to send representatives to the meeting without violating U.S. travel restrictions to the communist island.
It is the first time the exile group has encouraged its directors to go to Cuba. In the past, directors who wanted to travel to Cuba had to resign from the foundation on principle and for security reasons.
CANF’s declaration came in response to a Feb. 25 invitation from dissidents planning the Assembly to Promote Civil Society on May 20.
“There will be a presence of directors and members of the foundation there,” Chairman Jorge Mas Santos said Thursday. “We think it’s an opportune time.”
The Miami-based CANF, which lobbies Washington on Cuban-American issues such as travel restrictions and the economic embargo, has been criticized for a perceived move toward softening its stance against Cuban President Fidel Castro.
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