A complete collection of Cuba stories by David Allester and his cruising mate, Eileen Quinn, traveling minstrel of the Caribbean.

Dispropportionate or essential
to America’s war on terror?

U.S. Adminstration targets tourists
The Bush administration is bearing down hard on Americans who travel to Cuba on vacation, and was being criticized for allocating more U.S. Treasury personnel to the Cuban embargo than were assigned to duties against Islamic terrorists. That’s in one article, from the Miami Herald. The other--a Wall Street Journal report--hints that those very Treasury investigators are being posted abroad and undercover to detect Americans trying to get to Cuba through the backdoor. Click here to read more.

Once a gray area, Bush declares any
and all Cuba cruising illegal
Read the proclamation by President Bush that effectively bans all U.S. pleasure boats from crossing over to Cuba.