“An Oslo hotel, owned by the US Hilton chain, refused a booking by a Cuban trade delegation to the city’s travel fair last month because of the US embargo of the communist Caribbean island … [In another case] freelance journalist Tom Fawthrop … was puzzled that he had not been paid for an article in the Sydney Morning Herald that he had written about the Cuban health service. On enquiring what had happened, he received this message from Citibank Global: ‘Due to US sanctions, your payment was stopped for the following reason - reference to Cuban doctors.’ “

It’s ridiculous that the US can hold the whole world to ransom over an embargo which only three other countries support - Israel, Palau and the Marshall Islands. Guardian article is here.

Posted Monday, February 5th, 2007 @ 9:07 am
Filed in business and productivity, politics

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