U.S. CRUISE LINE “CARNIVAL” STATES THEY ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR DISCRIMINATION TO CUBAN AMERICANS TRAVELING TO THE ISLAND.
The Carnival company, sued for discrimination against Cuban travelers, said Wednesday that the decision to let the Islanders by sea to Cuba is Cuba’s Government and said that they asked for changes in the regulation.”
“This is not a decision of our brand Fathom, but rather a decision of Cuba”, said Roger Frizzell, head of communications for Carnival Corporation.
Fathom, a new brand of the cruise company, will start on May 1 its first cruises of Miami route to Havana on the ship Adonia, with 704 passengers, which however may not travel nor Cuban Cuban.” “It is our hope and our intent that all over the world to travel and will continue to pursue a change in the regulation of cruise ship that cruises on par with aircraft”, that if Cubans can reach the island, said Frizzell.
El spokesman also pointed out that “there is no merit or substance” in any kind of claim against them for discrimination.
Two Cuban travelers, Amparo Sánchez and Francisco Marty, who could not buy tickets for travel on the new route, filed this week a lawsuit “discrimination” against the company in federal court in Florida.”
We believe that there is a better chance of a change in policy through an active dialogue with the Cubans, that some of the policies of many of the past years,”said the spokesman of Carnival.Stephanie Moncada, one of the lawyers in charge of demand, explained that it seeks to make withdraw to Carnival of discriminating against those born in Cuba.Grupos of the Cuban exile in Miami , including the democracy movement, also announced today that they scanned file another similar lawsuit for discrimination.
Similarly, the Mayor of Miami-Dade, Carlos Giménez, born in Cuba and nationalized in the United States, ordered his legal advisers investigate if Carnival is violating the human rights of the County code by discriminating against because of nationality.
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Gimenez has among its functions the supervision of the port of Miami, where will set sail may 1 Fathom Cruiser bound for Havana, the first cruise that will leave United States with destination to Cuba in more than fifty years. Carnival is the first company that has obtained permission to open a line of cruise ships to Cuba with departure from the United States, in the heat of the normalization of relations between both.
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