(WASHINGTON) – U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee

In Multi-Pronged Approach, Ros-Lehtinen Asks State Department, OFAC Miami-Dade County Health Department to Post Travel Advisories Warning Travelers Of Risk They Take Traveling to Cuba during Cholera Outbreak
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"Regardless of the attempts by the Castro regime discount airfares cheap airline tickets to ignore the cholera outbreak, there is no denying that cholera is spreading throughout Cuba.  This is a serious health problem for Cubans, but also for the U.S. because of the heavy stream discount airfares cheap airline tickets of travelers between both nations. The Cuban regime, unlike other countries with cholera cases, is secretive, deceitful and uncooperative with international health officials.
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"Lives have already been lost in Cuba because of the regime's policy of keeping these issues in the dark so as to not scare away tourists and their hard currencies. If this outbreak worsens, it will be another hardship brought upon the Cuban people by the backward policies of the Castro dictatorship."