"I am extremely disappointed with President Trump's announcement he is going to "roll back" the progress made in improving our relationship with Cuba".
The lengthy statement then went on to strike a conciliatory tone, saying Cuba wants to continue negotiations with the USA on a variety of subjects.
Pointing to human rights abuses, Trump said, "My administration will not hide from it, excuse it, or glamorize it and we will never ever be blind to it". The conglomerate is estimated to control more than half of the country's economy.
President Trump is slamming shut the door to Cuba that President Obama opened three years ago.
President Donald Trump on Friday announced a significant shift in foreign policy toward Cuba, placing new restrictions on American business and tourism to keep US dollars from reaching government coffers on the island nation.
"We do not want U.S. dollars to prop up a military monopoly that exploits and abuses the citizens of Cuba", Trump said, pledging that United States sanctions would not be lifted until Cuba frees political prisoners and holds free election.
Trump's revised approach could see a stricter enforcement of a longtime ban on Americans travelling to Cuba as tourists, reported Al-Jazeera.
In his statement, Flake called for the Senate's GOP leadership to allow a vote on his legislation that he said would eliminate "archaic restrictions" on travel to Cuba that "do not exist for travel by Americans to any other country in the world".
President Donald Trump on Friday ordered tighter restrictions on Americans travelling to Cuba and a clampdown on U.S. business dealings with the island's military, saying "with God's help a free Cuba is what we will soon achieve".
"Our embassy remains open in the hope that our countries can forge a much stronger and better path", he said.
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The policy will maintain diplomatic relations and allow US airlines and cruise ships to continue servicing the island.
The "wet foot, dry foot" policy, which once let most Cuban migrants stay if they made it to United States soil but was ended under Mr Obama, will remain so and remittances from people in America to Cubans will not be cut off. Remittances from people in America to Cubans won't be cut off.
Americans will still be able to visit family in Cuba and take part in group educational trips. 'We recall that Cuba is a State party to 44 global human rights instruments, while the United States comply with only 18, therefore we have much to show, comment and defend, ' the island's government upholds.
Trump described his move as an effort to ramp up pressure to create a "free Cuba" after more than half a century of communism.
Before the president took the stage, Sen. The Florida senator added that he believes when the "enslaved island" is free, people and history will say one key moment happened on this day.
The Obama policy is likely to be revised rather than reversed entirely.
The tweet reads, "Headed to Miami to announce new US policy on Cuba".
Trump complained the recent surge of American visitors has benefited Cuba's repressive rulers.
Numerous high-profile fugitives in Cuba are black or Puerto Rican militants who were offered political asylum by Fidel Castro during the 1970s and 1980s.
Trump also reaffirmed US statutory embargo of Cuba. He also touched on the shooting earlier this week at a GOP Congressional baseball team practice. "This will be the first time in several decades that the Cuban people will have an economic advantage over the Cuban military".
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