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3/8/2005
7:42:34 pm EST
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Is Santeria Used As Ploy To Skirt Travel Rules To Cuba?
Author: Miami Herald Source: Global Exchange
Title: IS SANTERIA USED AS PLOY TO SKIRT TRAVEL RULES TO CUBA?
  Despite the Bush administration's crackdown on exiles' trips back to Cuba, there are still ways to travel to the island without restriction.
One seems to be increasingly popular: Go as a Santero.
Religious groups can get licenses with little trouble. And the head of at least one group that says it practices the Afro-Cuban religion Santeria acknowledged that his congregation has exploded in size since the new travel restrictions kicked in.
Jose Montoya, head of the Sacerdocio Lucumi Shango Eyeife in Miami, said that between 1996 and July 2004, he took about 60 people to Cuba under his religious travel license. Since the restrictions took effect in July, he has taken about 2,500, he said.
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| Religious? | Mar 8th. at 8:27:02 pm EST
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Ahr-Ohn (Bridgeport, Connecticut) - Email Me
``I think the Cuban people are very industrious and ingenious, and I think that they really will find a way to visit their relatives in Cuba.''
Since when is visiting relatives not a religious obligation?
Are we talking only about the kind of tourists who go to the Vatican, or the Canterbury Cathedral?
If somebody feels like going some place, how is this not a Devine Calling?
Arawn
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| Why Bother | Mar 8th. at 8:24:31 pm EST
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Rowan Foxfyre (Indianapolis, Indiana) - Email Me
As long as you have a passport, fly into Cancun and then catch a Plane from Cancun to Cuba...thats how all my friends do it...No Fraud, no Lies....
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