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Travelocity Busted for Going to Cuba

Travelocity Fined for Cuba TripsTravelocity's roaming gnome must either have a taste for cigars, or a taste for La Revolución. The company has just settled a fine that it was recently socked with for booking illegal trips to Cuba; Cuba, as any decent bald eagle saluting American knows, is our mortal enemy (or, one of many). Relations are so strained with the island nation that travel to it by U.S. citizens is forbidden by law, except for certain academic, religious, journalistic or humanitarian reasons. Even then, travel must be booked through an agent licensed by the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control, and Travelocity is not one of these agents.

The company's spokesman blamed a series of "technical failures" for the illegal bookings, which amounted to some 1,500 trips to Castroland between 1998 and 2004. Just the same, Travelocity was ordered to pay a $182,750 fine to the Office of Foreign Assets Control for its crimes against America.

$182,750 is an awful lot of lawn ornaments ...

From 'The New York Times'

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