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Originally Posted by SCORE-Cash
Bring cash... You can use credit cards, at the local bank to withdrawl money. They do the transactions via Canadian banks, so thier is no US connection as to where you are withdrawing the money.
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I've heard that the banks share their info with the US Government, the same as the airlines in other countries share their flight manifest with them. The USA is hell bent on knowing everything that is going on down there. Mexico at one time didn't share the flight manifest, but I hear now they do and more Americans than ever are getting into trouble over it.
Before there was only one judge to hear all the cases for Americans caught going to Cuba. "Trading with the enemy" they call it. Our asshole president Bush hired a shit load of more judges to process all the cases. Before they were so jammed up nobody was really getting into trouble. Now they are fining people $7000 a pop like their lives depended on it. You can travel to Cuba but you can't spend money there. That is the catch. Unless you can prove you were "fully hosted" you are paying a whopper fine if you get caught.
The thing that pisses me off, is that Cuba is a wonderful and safe place to visit and is not the place Americans were raised believing. I've had some of the best times of my life in Cuba and hope to live there someday when things lighten up.