Source: PR Newswire
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/05-12-2005/0003597533&EDATE=
On May 12, 2005 a PR Newswire press release reported, "In conversations with the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the U.S. Department of Treasury, K.B. Forbes, the Executive Director of the Consejo de Latinos Unidos, a national non-profit advocacy group that educates and assists Hispanics, called on the office to investigate Sacerdocio Lucumi Shango Eyeife (a Miami for-profit corporation) with ties to the Yoruba Cultural Association (Asociacion Cultural Yoruba de Cuba) -- an organization based in Havana, Cuba that appears to collect hard- currency and useful intelligence for the dictatorship of Fidel Castro while fraudulently masquerading itself as a 'cultural' group and recruits members in the U.S. Forbes said, 'All travel privileges to Cuba under the auspices of Sacerdocio Lucumi Shango Eyeife and known Yoruba Cultural Association members in the United States should be thoroughly investigated.' Forbes informed OFAC of U.S. based groups that appear to have close ties to the Yoruba Cultural Association. 'These groups, and not Churches, appear to dish-out credentials to anyone who claims to be clergy or a Santeria member, even letting so-called adherents apply online at their website,' Forbes noted."