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Americans break the law to visit Cuba


** FILE ** Cubans ride in an old car on Havana's coastal "Malecon" in Cuba, July 9, 2006. Traveling to Cuba is not illegal for Americans, but the Trading with the Enemy Act prohibits spending money on the island. If caught, unauthorized U.S. tourists can face civil fines of up to US$55,000 (40,000), though many settle for smaller amounts. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)Barack Obama would lift restrictions on visits by Cuban Americans to the hemisphere's only communist country if elected president. A growing chorus of Democratic and Republican lawmakers would go even farther, loosening the U.S. embargo enough to allow all Americans to travel to Cuba.





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