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    Vacation in Cuba and Fight Gerontocracy

    Posted Wednesday, October 28, 2009 10:31 AM | By Kerry Howley
    The ban on travel to Cuba was as pointless seven years ago as it is today, but somewhere in the interim, a significant number of Cuban-Americans turned against it. In a 2002 poll, 46 percent of Cuban-Americans said they wanted the restriction lifted. According to a September survey, 59 percent said the same. This is especially striking because in April of 2009, Cuban-Americans won the right to visit family members with relatively few restrictions; it's the rest of us who still have to deal with a blanket ban.* The poll's sample size is not large, and the margin of error is a full five points, so the swing may not be as great as it appears. Still, the future belongs to the would-be tourist; when you exclude the 65-and-over set, the percentage of people who support a change of policy shoots up to 62 ... (Read the rest of this article in DoubleX).
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