Trump to clamp down on Cuba travel and trade
Source: Politico
Making good on a campaign pledge, President Donald Trump on Friday will announce a significant rollback of former President Barack Obamas accord with Cuba by clearly banning tourist travel to the island, restating the importance of the 56-year-old trade embargo with the island and instituting a broad prohibition on financial transactions with companies significantly controlled by the Communist governments military, according to a draft version of the directive obtained by POLITICO.
The administration says its goal is to put an end to business transactions that financially benefit the Castro regime while the Cuban people get little in return.
My administrations policy will be guided by key U.S. national security interests and solidarity with the Cuban people, the draft of the five-point, eight-page Presidential Policy Directive reads. I will seek to promote a stable, prosperous, and free country for the Cuban people. To that end, we must ensure that U.S. funds are not channeled to a regime that has failed to meet the most basic requirements of a free and just society.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/15/trump-cuba-policy-239596
...because if there's something Trump hates, it's an authoritarian country with a market for new hotels.
tanyev
(42,610 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)not all republicans are "into animal cruelty", but a large percentage of them seem to take a perverse pleasure when animals suffer.
flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)You'd think he lost a dick-measuring contest with the guy and never recovered from the public humiliation or something.
watoos
(7,142 posts)It was that correspondence dinner where President Obama publicly humiliated Trump, mainly over the witch hunt of Trump looking for Obama's real birth certificate.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Hey Mr. President, Thank you from Russia.
Remember we wanted to drill for oil off coast of Cuba? The drilling platforms were pretty upsetting to Florida because a leak would foul Florida beaches and those lovely islands- right away.
Deals back on and we don't have any pesky regulations. We'll be sure to clean up the tar balls on florida beaches. signed your friend, pootie.
South America cheers! get out America cuba is our customer. We cover all direct flights.
Historic NY
(37,453 posts)We deal with Communist China who regularly steals our military technology.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)sandensea
(21,664 posts)They're like hamsters: you yell Castro, and they mindlessly push the lever.
no_hypocrisy
(46,182 posts)heaven05
(18,124 posts)wants to crack down on all those white people who travel to enjoy the spanish/african culture of brown people, who by the way....ssshhhh don't tell anyone .... offers medical care cradle to grave and has some of the best medical care to give its citizens and others, in the civilized world, including this uber expensive scam assed medical system we have here.
mwooldri
(10,303 posts)So citizens of countries that are less free can go to Cuba "easily" but not Americans?
Weird.
Moral Compass
(1,525 posts)Like many of his seemingly almost meaningless moves (this will not have a big impact on most of the country) this one is designed to distract.
Another, "Squirrel!" for the public.