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Originally Posted by MaDef
Are you kidding? Governments issue travel bans all the time. It's been Illegal for U.S. citizens to travel to Cuba for 40 years. It's also illegal to travel to Syria, and Somalia. (hence the reason those Americans end up there via circuitous routes through Europe)
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It was never illegal to travel to Cuba you just couldn't spend your U.S. dollars there and its certainly not illegal to travel to the Middle East either as there are many U.S. citizens fighting for the legitimate goverment of Syria. The worst that will happen is if you find yourself in trouble dont expect any help in a place the goverment said not to go.
One time we stopped a U.S. sailboat that had left Havana. Had one person onboard, a college aged student, one those kind today we would call a snowflake. We were professioanl, did our job, inspected his boat and about to leave. He showed us his Che Guevara t-shirts and all these other things he had bought in Cuba. We asked how many U.S. dollars he spent. He told us about $150.00 US. we told him that was illegal and called ahead and had Customs waiting for him at the dock. Those were the days when we siezed just about everything so Im sure the kid probably lost his boat.