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Fla. Rep. criticizes baseball team's Cuba trip

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July 31, 2008

MONTPELIER, Vt.—A Florida congressman is criticizing a Vermont-New Hampshire Little League team's trip to Cuba next week.

According to a column in the Washington Post, Republican Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart, an anti-Castro Cuban-American, held a meeting of the Cuba Democracy Caucus on July 10 to discuss the trip. He said it's very troubling that the government granted the team permission to travel to Cuba.

The 14 11- and 12-year-olds plans to be in Cuba for 10 days starting Aug. 8.

Americans are prohibited from traveling to Cuba unless they get permission from the U.S. government.

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