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22 March 2004

Songs of Cuba, silenced in America
" We may think we are isolating Cuba with our embargo and our travel restrictions, but it is we Americans who are becoming isolated." US singer-songwriter Jackson Browne on the US - Cuba visa conflict.
From New York Times;

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/22/opinion/22BROW.html

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