The president has been critical of actions that meant to warm decades of icy relations with the communist island nation - efforts punctuated by a trip to Havana a year ago, on which Obama became the first sitting US president to visit Cuba in almost a century.
Reversing yet another policy move by Barack Obama, President Trump plans to re-institute restrictions on travel to Cuba and USA business dealings with entities tied to the Cuban military and intelligence services, officials said Thursday.
Godinez is a professor in the department of theatre at Northwestern and the resident artistic associate at the Goodman Theatre, where he is the director of the Latino Theatre Festival. The policy calls on Americans traveling to Cuba to use "private businesses and services provided by the Cuban people, rather than businesses and services provided by".
According to the Miami Herald, back in September, while at a campaign event in Miami, Trump told a crowd - which the Herald reports was heavily populated with Cuban exiles - that former President Barrack Obama's decision to ease trade and travel restrictions on Cuba hadn't benefitted the Cuban people and was misguided. The new rules include prohibitions against Americans spending money on businesses controlled by the military, which has a wide reach in the Cuban economy.
Survey after survey shows that a majority of Americans, Cuban-Americans, and Cubans in the island favor greater economic ties between the United States and Cuba.
Instead, Trump will aim to make it tougher to travel to Cuba and restrict US financial transactions that benefit the communist-ruled regime. White House officials also noted that Americans can still bring Cuban cigars back from their trip. "It's up to them to lay out those specifics, but suffice it to say that tomorrow's going to be a good day for the Cuban people, a better deal for the Cuban people, which is who we're trying to help here, by empowering them and doing so in a way that does not empower their oppressors".
The new policy would eliminate one of 12 different categories of travel Obama allowed-individual, so-called "people-to-people" travel.
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"My gut feeling is that I think that we should continue to maintain President Obama's policy", said George Ransome, referring to sweeping changes made under the Obama Administration a few years ago.
Trump is scheduled announce the new Cuba policies at 1 p.m at the Manuel Artime Theater in Little Havana.
MIAMI, Fla. (WKOW) - President Trump is expected to reveal his administration's new policy toward Cuba in a speech Friday. The policy will not directly talk about flights and cruises.
15 de junio de 2017, 17:38Washington, June 15 (Prensa Latina) US President Donald Trump " s announcement on the situation with Cuba will be focused possibly on tightening restrictions on travel and banning commercial transactions with Cuban state-owned companies, according to the Politico.com US political-journalism company.
Nothing will go into effect immediately: White House officials said Trump will direct the secretaries of commerce and Treasury to revise the regulations, and nothing will go into effect until those regulations are promulgated. The order would allow continued expenditure linked to operations at the Guantanamo Naval Base against the will of the Cuban people and Government, and would also keep the corresponding funds for the U.S. embassy in Havana.
At home, Trump's critics have questioned why his administration is now singling out Cuba for its human rights record while insisting that in other parts of the world it will not lecture other countries on the issue.
Mr. Trump will travel to Miami Friday to announce the policy changes more fully. Marco Rubio (R., Fla.) played a "central" role in helping the administration recast the policy, one official said, while other members of Congress were instrumental as well. Trump's new policy would not reflect the views of almost three-quarters of US citizens.
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