{"id":313611,"date":"2017-06-20T02:40:43","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T01:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-clamps-down-on-us-cuban-travel-and-trade\/"},"modified":"2017-06-20T02:40:43","modified_gmt":"2017-06-20T01:40:43","slug":"trump-clamps-down-on-us-cuban-travel-and-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-clamps-down-on-us-cuban-travel-and-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump clamps down on US-Cuban travel and trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Trump clamps down on US-Cuban travel and trade<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Alexander Fangmann<br \/>\n    <br \/>19 June 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>On June 16, President Donald Trump gave a speech in Miami\u2019s Little Havana neighborhood outlining his planned rollback of the loosening of travel and trade restrictions initiated under the Obama administration. Repeating his absurd claim that the deal to reopen diplomatic relations and allow US companies to operate on the island was \u201cone-sided\u201d and \u201cterrible and misguided,\u201d the Trump administration is speaking not only for wealthy, right-wing Cuban exiles who were part of his base. American imperialism\u2019s most rapacious layers see a Cuban economic collapse on the horizon and an opportunity to take back their old property without having to give a cut to the Cuban leadership and their associates.<\/p>\n<p>Despite claiming to be canceling the deal \u201ceffective immediately,\u201d at the end of the speech Trump signed a presidential directive that the Commerce and Treasury departments begin drawing up changes to the Obama administration\u2019s most recent regulations within 30 days. According to reports and administration officials, the two biggest changes would primarily impact individual travel to the island by US nationals as well as place more limits on business deals with entities owned by the Cuban military.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest expected change in regard to travel is the elimination of the \u201cpeople to people\u201d individual educational travel license. Due to the Cuban embargo, Americans are not allowed to spend money in Cuba without a license from the Treasury Department\u2019s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). The Obama administration, as part of its rapprochement with the government of Raul Castro, created more categories of \u201cgeneral\u201d licenses under which people could \u201cself-certify,\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/06\/19\/cuba-j19.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Trump clamps down on US-Cuban travel and trade By Alexander Fangmann 19 June 2017 On June 16, President Donald Trump gave a speech in Miami\u2019s Little Havana neighborhood outlining his planned rollback of the loosening of travel and trade restrictions initiated under the Obama administration. Repeating his absurd claim that the deal to reopen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-313611","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}