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UNDER PRESSURE: CUBAN ARTISTS AND FOREIGN POLICY
05/17/2008
Cuban pianist Chuchito Valdés would very much like for his famed jazz musician father to be allowed to perform again stateside.
The group convened at HR-57, a nonprofit arts organization named for a 1987 House resolution authored by Conyers that designated jazz "a rare and valuable American national treasure" worthy of federal support.
Since 2003, the Bush administration has prevented Cuban musicians from entering the United States through visa denials and has curtailed the ability of American musicians to travel there, via license restrictions—one of the most notable examples was the denial of a visa for veteran singer Ibrahim Ferrer to attend the Grammy Awards in 2004.
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