U.S. Shuts Down European Websites Promoting Cuba as Travel Destination

The Spanish news daily “Publico” revealed that the U.S. Government has just shut down several websites, operating from Spain and owned by a British citizen, that promote Cuba as a tourist destination for Europeans.

According to Prensa Latina news agency, the measures were taken against Steve Marshall, a British citizen who lives in Spain and owns a travel agency, and who manages several websites on Cuban culture and tourism.

According to the news report, last October Washington ordered U.S. company eNom to shut down these websites, using the regulations of the almost 50-year-old U.S. economic blockade of the Caribbean country as a pretext.

The note adds that the US Treasury Department put Marshall’s websites “most of them tourist guides” on a blacklist for having commercial ties with Cuba.

Marshall lodged a complaint before the European Union but they told him that they “could do nothing” in spite of the fact that he is a British citizen who lives in a European country and who operates from this continent with European clients.