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posted by CoolHand on Friday June 16 2017, @07:24PM   Printer-friendly

President Trump has placed some restrictions on travel to Cuba, but has not entirely undone the changes that former President Obama made in his second term:

In an overhaul of one of his predecessor's signature legacies, President Donald Trump will redraw U.S. policy toward Cuba on Friday, tightening travel restrictions for Americans that had been loosened under President Barack Obama and banning U.S. business transactions with Cuba's vast military conglomerate.

Trump's changes are intended to sharply curtail cash flow to the Cuban government and pressure its communist leaders to let the island's fledgling private sector grow. Diplomatic relations reestablished by Obama, including reopened embassies in Washington and Havana, will remain. Travel and money sent by Cuban Americans will be unaffected, but Americans will be unable to spend money in state-run hotels or restaurants tied to the military, a significant prohibition.

Editorials for and against the rollback.

Previously: Deal Will Allow Up to 110 U.S. Flights to Cuba Daily
President Obama Visits Cuba
USA Ends "Wet Foot/Dry Foot" Policy for Cuban Migrants


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 16 2017, @09:56PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 16 2017, @09:56PM (#526647)

    Ah, so the USA is a capitalist country then! After all it walks like a capitalist country, talks like a capitalist country, and murders brown people like a capitalist country, so it must be a capitalist country! Just ignore all the anti-free market stuff that it does because the name makes it true! I think I'm an ANONYMOUS HERO now, so you can't call me a coward! ISIS are righteous freedom fighters because they say they are! North Korea is democratic it's in the name!

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 16 2017, @10:42PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 16 2017, @10:42PM (#526666)

    Ah, so the USA is a capitalist country then!

    Yes.

    After all it walks like a capitalist country, talks like a capitalist country, and murders brown people like a capitalist country, so it must be a capitalist country!

    Powerful interests.

    Just ignore all the anti-free market stuff that it does because the name makes it true!

    There's nothing anti-capitalistic about protectionism, what do you think property rights are?

    I think I'm an ANONYMOUS HERO now, so you can't call me a coward!

    Good for you.

    ISIS are righteous freedom fighters because they say they are! North Korea is democratic it's in the name!

    Communism was created for the benefit of the workers!

    We got there in the end didn't we?