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From the IFEX COMMUNIQUE # 6-2,  13 January 1997

 UNITED STATES: EMBARGO IMPEDES OPENING OF CNN BUREAU IN CUBA

The United States government continues to impose legal and
technical restrictions preventing news agencies from opening
bureaus in Cuba, says the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). On 6
January, CPJ executive director William Orme wrote to the US Treasury
Secretary encouraging him to authorize the international financial
transactions necessary for the Cable News Network (CNN) to establish
an ongoing operation in Cuba. CNN has received authorization from the
Cuban government to open a Havana news bureau, which CPJ says "would
be the first US news organization based in Cuba since the 1969
expulsion of the last US correspondent resident in Havana." Cuba's
action "represents a welcome reversal of a policy that had been in
effect for nearly three decades of refusing petitions from US news
organizations for permanently staffed offices," said Orme.

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