House Votes to Overturn Bush Rules on Cuba

The House dealt an election-season setback to President Bush on Wednesday by voting to overturn restrictions his administration has issued on the gift parcels that Americans can send to family members in Cuba. The 221-194 vote was won by a coalition in which Democrats were joined by nearly four dozen farm-state and free-trade Republicans to rebuff the president.  [more] Pictured above: More than 200,000 Cubans took part in a rally last week in front of the US Interest Section in Havana to protest Bush's foul new sanctions against Cuba. [more]