{"id":97167501,"date":"2010-08-25T11:51:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T11:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/u-s-businesses-urge-congress-to-lift-cuba-travel-ban\/"},"modified":"2010-08-25T11:51:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-25T11:51:00","slug":"u-s-businesses-urge-congress-to-lift-cuba-travel-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/u-s-businesses-urge-congress-to-lift-cuba-travel-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Businesses Urge Congress to Lift Cuba Travel Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<strong>&nbsp;Could Cuba travel ban be lifted this year? U.S. businesses hope so<\/strong>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n&nbsp;\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n&nbsp;\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n&nbsp;\n<\/div>\n<p>\nAmerican based businesses are demanding the House of Representatives lift the travel ban to Cuba as soon as possible.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe decades-old embargo on Cuba by the United States, which is the longest lasting embargo in modern history, restricts U.S. businesses from conducting business with Cuban interests.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn a memo to leaders of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, the Chamber of Commerce&#39;s chief lobbyist, Bruce Joston, said <span>&quot;It is time to end the unproductive<br \/>\npreoccupation with an aging and moribund Communist regime, and begin to<br \/>\nlay the groundwork for a U.S. role in the future of Cuba.&quot;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<span>In June, the House Agriculture Committee voted 25-20 to pass a bill that would end the 50-year old ban on travel to Cuba<br \/>\nand to do away with unnecessary obstacles to food sales to the island.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Source: <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE67N66V20100824\" target=\"_blank\"> Reuters <\/a><\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;Could Cuba travel ban be lifted this year? U.S. businesses hope so &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; American based businesses are demanding the House of Representatives lift the travel ban to Cuba as soon as possible. &nbsp; The decades-old embargo on Cuba by the United States, which is the longest lasting embargo in modern history, restricts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97167501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97167501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97167501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97167501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97167501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97167501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97167501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}