Of course they do, because:
"Cuba is Canada's largest market in the Caribbean and Central American region, with two-way trade topping $1 billion in 2010. A Canadian oil and gas company, Sherritt International, is the largest foreign investor in Cuba."
From this article wherein the Canadian minister for Latin America trips all over herself  trying to display concern [...]

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Not much is uglier than people vacationing in a Potemkin village while ignoring  human rights atrocities  right under their noses.   However, I think Congressmen Jeff Flake and Charles Rangel naming a bill allowing  just that the "Export Freedom to Cuba Act," is an affront to all those in Cuba struggling for freedom.  Ugly Americans indeed.
From The Hill: 

Inspired by Cuba's [...]

The Los Angeles Latin American Film Festival, in collaboration with the Si Cuba Festival, presented Estela Bravo's documentary, Operation Pedro Pan: Flying Back to Cuba. Estela Bravo, a New York native, has lived and worked in Cuba since 1963.  Her work includes the documentary Fidel, a total pro-Castro whitewash seen by useful idiots on Cuba’s "tourist indoctrination tour." 
This [...]

In conjunction with the Si Cuba!  (Whose partner organizations include The Int'l Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban 5 and SPARC) event at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, Arturo Sandoval is in concert at the Hollywood Bowl with Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club featuring Omara Portuondo. 
This special Cuban-themed evening of scorching rhythms and [...]

Thanks to the inimitable Paquito D'Rivera for shedding light on this phenomenon, because I've been unable to understand how it is beneficial for Americans to spend their hard-earned, and increasingly hard to acquire dollars on propaganda shows produced by tyrannical dictators who enslave their people and hate us. While it's easy to understand why the [...]

Via our friends at Religión en Revolución:

 
For Immediate Release
16 February 2011
A respected Baptist pastor in Cuba has published an open letter denouncing government persecution targeting him and his church. Pastor Homero Carbonell, long-time leader of La Trinidad First Baptist Church in Santa Clara, and a high-level denominational leader, says he has been forced to retire due [...]

Has a nice ring doesn’t it?   Considering Havana’s legendary influence on the success of American Jazz, it seems more than appropriate that since Cuba has become a third world country in dire need of well... everything, giving back sounds like a good thing.  Is it? 
What criterion determines the selection process for which students are accepted into the [...]

“My policy toward Cuba will be guided by one word: Libertad. And the road to freedom for all Cubans must begin with justice for Cuba's political prisoners, the rights of free speech, a free press and freedom of assembly; and it must lead to elections that are free and fair.” – Obama speech to the [...]

Go, but be prepared to leave your rights at the border. 
Via Capitol Hill Cubans:
U.S. Public Official Detained in Cuba
at 6:30 PM Friday, October 29, 2010
From WBIR in Knoxville, Tennessee:
 The chair of the Knox County Commission is glad to be back on American soil after being detained by Cuban Immigration officials.
 The Cuban Government stopped Mike Hammond, along [...]

It was recently announced that the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra would travel to Cuba as part of a cultural exchange under the auspices of the Cuban Institute of Music, an agency of the Cuban Ministry of Culture.

The venerable Paquito D’Rivera shares his thoughts about traveling to Cuba, and so-called "non-political" events in Cuba. [...]

Presenting "mindful" travel and tourism to Cuba, more familiarly known as those indoctrinating "cultural" tours to Cuba.  
Ethical Traveler and Global Exchange’s Reality Tours have joined forces to create an extraordinary journey: an in-depth exploration of Cuba, with a focus on the country’s huge potential for mindful travel and tourism.
The delegation will be led by Malia Everette – who has [...]

While the butchers in La Habana continue their bloody work, they also find there is no shortage of useful idiots willing to prop up their image:
IN AN INTERNATIONAL FIRST, DIRECTOR OF Cuban AUTO MUSEUM
visits UNITED STATES To Judge at Major Concours d'Elegance

They call it "car guy" diplomacy, and never mind reality, because:
There is an important [...]

A church group from Portland is denied entry by Cuban authorities, detained, and sent back to Mexico and whom do they blame?  Not the Stalinist regime responsible, but the unfortunate American held in a Cuban prison accused of trying to “destabilize” said regime.   How rude!  After all, this church group loves Cuba; they’ve never had [...]

Penultimos Dias has word that Yoani Sanchez and other Cuban bloggers have been arrested in Havana.
Yoani Sánchez, Orlando Luis Pardo, Ciro Díaz and Claudia Cadelo among those arrested. Cadelo is reported to have already been released. Details on whereabouts of other dissident bloggers are still sketchy.
UPDATE 6:46 EST: Im told all were picked up, [...]

Millions of tourists from democratic countries, including the U.S. have visited Cuba, but somehow, contrary to the kool-aid crowd school of thought, the Cuban people still have NO HUMAN RIGHTS. To those bozos who argue for the lifting of the embargo what do you have to say about this? How do you think more Americans [...]

Here's how Americans traveling to Cuba will help the "natives:"

H/T Gabe M.

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There are millions of exiled Cubans who can answer that question.
AP shill for the dictator, Anita Snow, provides us with the New York Philharmonic’s president, Zarin Mehta thoughts as he considers a possible tour to Cuba:
Mehta said the orchestra is concentrating on people rather than politicians: "We just want to come and play music and [...]

More home video of a lovely holiday in Cuba. Notice how they are talking to dissidents about their important work and how they discuss the merits of representative democracy with people on the streets.

I don't know about you guys but watching that video infuriates me. These people are frolicking in a country that [...]

Lift the travel ban and Cuba will be democratized by American versions of "Sava and his mummy, daddy, granny and granda."

Don't miss the pirate show.

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