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US Tightens Cuba Sanctions, Ends Group Travel

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06/04/19
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An old car with the Cuban flag painted on the trunk is seen near the Capitol of Havana in Cuba on January 7, 2015.

Cuba. Photo: Yamil Lage, AFP

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The Trump administration banned group educational travel to Cuba on Tuesday, cutting off one of the main avenues for Americans to visit the Caribbean island.

In a move to punish what it called Cuba’s “destabilizing role” in the region, the U.S. Treasury also banned the U.S. export of boats and private airplanes to the country.

The end to group educational travel would likely deal a heavy blow to American tourism on the island, which took off after former President Barack Obama moved to ease the half-century embargo against the communist government in 2014.

#BREAKING: The US will no longer allow group educational and cultural trips known as "people to people" travel to Cuba. Private and corporate aircraft and boats will also be denied permission.

DETAILS: https://t.co/5MxSeuCZpa pic.twitter.com/45UmdYGpdD

— WSVN 7 News (@wsvn) June 4, 2019

“Cuba continues to play a destabilizing role in the Western hemisphere, providing a communist foothold in the region and propping up U.S. adversaries in places like Venezuela and Nicaragua by fomenting instability, undermining the rule of law, and suppressing democratic processes,” Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in a statement.

“This administration has made a strategic decision to reverse the loosening of sanctions and other restrictions on the Cuban regime. These actions will help to keep U.S. dollars out of the hands of Cuban military, intelligence, and security services.”

The Treasury move banned “group people-to-people educational travel,” a structure that allowed travel agencies to organize regular American tourists into “educational groups” who, on their visit to Cuba, would spend a certain amount of time in exchanges with Cubans.

After he came into office in January 2017 promising to reverse Obama’s thaw with Cuba, President Donald Trump banned individual visits and in a series of moves limited commerical interactions with the country.

Washington blames Cuba for propping up the besieged Venezuelan regime of President Nicolas Maduro.

Trump Administration Restricts US Travel, Remittances to Cuba

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