The US government denied a Puerto Rican delegation permission to travel to Cuba to attend the First Regional, Caribbean and Latin American Congress on Hypnotherapy.

Cuban Alberto Cobian, founding president of the Caribbean Association on Therapeutic Hypnosis, said that “Puerto Rican delegates have been victims of an imperial edict.”

Cobian lamented, particularly, the absence of Dr. Saavedra Caballero as president of the referred institution in the Caribbean.

Academics, scientists, artists, sportspeople and public figures from several spheres are every year impeded of traveling to Cuba because Washington denies them permission, as part of its policy to isolate and blockade the island.

In the hypnotherapy congress opening session, taking place in Santiago de Cuba, 534 miles east of Havana, Dr. Teresa Robles, general director of the Mexican Ericksorian Center, spoke of the efficiency of the hypnotic treatment in alcoholism and drug addiction.

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