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Trump unveils new curbs on travel, business with Cuba
US President Donald Trump announced that he was reversing crucial pieces of what he called a \"terrible and misguided deal\" with Cuba and will reinstate travel and commercial restrictions eased by the previous administration, the media reported.
Washington : US President Donald Trump announced that he was reversing crucial pieces of what he called a "terrible and misguided deal" with Cuba and will reinstate travel and commercial restrictions eased by the previous administration, the media reported.
During a speech on Friday night in Miami’s Little Havana, the epicentre of a Cuban exile community that supported him in the election, Trump said he was keeping a campaign promise to roll back the policy of engagement started by former President Barack Obama in 2014, which he said had empowered the communist government in Cuba and enriched the country's repressive military, reports The New York Times.
"We will not be silent in the face of communist oppression any longer...Effective immediately, I am cancelling the last administration's completely one-sided deal with Cuba," Trump said at the Manuel Artime Theatre.
After the speech, he signed a six-page directive that ordered new travel and commercial restrictions while leaving in place some key Obama-era measures that eased sanctions.
As part of the new policy, Americans will no longer be able to plan their own private trips to Cuba, and those who go as part of authorised educational tours will be subjected to strict new rules and audits to ensure that they are not going just as tourists.
American companies and citizens will also be barred from doing business with any firm controlled by the Cuban military or its intelligence or security services, walling off crucial parts of the economy, including much of the tourist sector, from American access.
