A Message to our Clients and Friends
M A R A Z U L C H A R T E R S , I N C .
725 River Rd. Edgewater, NJ 07020
http://www.marazulcharters.com
info@marazulcharters.com
(800) 223-5334

April 4, 2003

Dear Clients and Friends,

As you know, the U.S. has maintained restrictions on travel to Cuba for most of the last 40 years. For the past dozen years, the door has opened more and more, and tens of thousands of people like yourselves have traveled to Cuba on educational, humanitarian, and religious licenses. On March 24th, the Treasury Departments Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) which issues these licenses - announced they are eliminating the license for people to people educational exchange, the second largest category of travel to Cuba (after family visits).

Under this license, ordinary people from our country have been able to travel and exchange with their counterparts on the island. They have visited urban and rural communities, museums and galleries of all varieties, schools from day care through the university level, polyclinics and hospitals, and developing architectural treasures from Old Havana to Trinidad to Camaguey to Santiago. They have traveled through the length and breadth of Cuba visiting with people from all walks of life, exchanging ideas and experiences, breaking through walls of prejudice and preconceptions nurtured through lack of contact.

They have experienced the incredibly rich, intertwined cultural lives of both our countries grounded in our common multi-racial, multi-national heritage. They have found that we listen to the same music and watch and play the same sports. Lives have been enriched here and there. The world has been made a little better place.

75% of the American people as a whole and half of the Cuban-American community in Miami are opposed to any travel restrictions to Cuba. A majority in the House of Representatives voted last year to end enforcement of these restrictions. Ignoring the public and the Congress, OFAC has acted to end these educational exchanges, further restricting our freedom as Americans to travel.

We urge you to do the following as quickly as possible:

- Write to OFAC (they will accept comments until May 23) at:

Chief of Records
Attn: Request for Comments
Office of Foreign Assets Control
Department of the Treasury
1500 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington DC 20220

- Send a copy of your letter to your Congressional representative and your Senators and urge them to join the House or Senate Cuba Working Groups (see attached lists), both of which are leading efforts to end the travel restrictions.

- Send copies of your correspondence both to Marazul and to the Cuba Research & Analysis Group.

If we remain silent, our rights will be taken away and the progress we have made will be reversed. Freedom is a constant struggle and we need to act immediately.

The Senate Cuba Working Group
----------------------------- Member List

Democrats
1. Max Baucus, MT
2. Byron Dorgan, ND
3. Maria Cantwell, WA
4. Blanche Lincoln, AR
5. Jeff Bingaman, NM
6. Chris Dodd, CT

Republicans
1. Michael Enzi, WY
2. Chuck Hagel, NE
3. Norm Coleman, MN
4. Jim Talent, MO
5. Pat Roberts, KS
6. Kit Bond, MO

The House Cuba Working Group
---------------------------- Member List

Democrats
1. Neil Abercombie (HI-01)
2. Tammy Baldwin (WI-02)
3. Howard Berman (CA-26)
4. Marion Berry (AR-01)
5. William Lacy Clay (MO-01)
6. Peter DeFazio (OR-04)
7. William Delahunt (MA-10)
8. Rosa DeLauro (CT-3)
9. Cal Dooley (CA-20)
10. Sam Farr (CA-17)
11. Nick Lampson (TX-09)
12. Stephen Lynch (MA-09)
13. Jim McGovern (MA-03)
14. Collin Peterson (MN-07)
15. Charlie Rangel (NY-15)
16. Mike Ross (AR-04)
17. Vic Snyder (AR-02)
18. Hilda Solis (CA-31)
19. Charlie Stenholm (TX-17)
20. John Tanner (TN-08)
21. Mike Thompson (CA-01)
22. Edolphus Towns (NY-10)
23. Chris Van Hollen (MD-8)
24. Mike Doyle (PA-14)

Republicans:
1. John Boozman (AR-03)
2. Kevin Brady (TX-08)
3. Dave Camp (MI-04)
4. Jo Ann Emerson (MO-08)
5. Jeff Flake (AZ-01)
6. Sam Graves (MO-06)
7. Wally Herger (CA-02)
8. Tim Johnson (IL-05)
9. Ray LaHood (IL-18)
10. Jim Leach (IA-01)
11. Jerry Moran (KS-01)
12. George Nethercutt (WA-05)
13. Tom Osborne (NE-03)
14. Butch Otter (ID-01)
15. Ron Paul (TX-14)
16. Jim Ramstad (MN-03)
17. Dennis Rehberg (MT-At Large)
18. Paul Ryan (WI-01)
19. Chris Shays (CT-04)
20. John Shimkus (IL-20)
21. Nick Smith (MI-07)
22. Pat Tiberi (OH-12)
23. Edward Whitfield (KY-1)
24. Jim Greenwood (PA-8)