The changes open up educational travel to Cuba for individual Americans, allow Cubans working in the United States to earn salaries, and reduce trade and financial barriers to improve business ties between the two countries.
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He plans to take several more groups this year, especially since there is a growing interest and the U.S.is not allowing citizens to travel to Cuba independently with a people-to-people visa.
Near the Hotel Nacional De Cuba is one of Havana’s iconic 1950s…
President Obama won’t meet Fidel Castro during his historic visit to Cuba next week, White House aides said Wednesday.
Vilsack cited soybeans, rice, poultry and biofuels as new markets USA farmers could tap in Cuba, which in turn could sell organic products to its former Cold War foe.
More than a year after Obama and President Raul Castro announced the re-establishment of diplomatic relations, USA companies can now manufacture goods in Cuba, export to the Cuban government and fly regularly scheduled flights to the island.
“These unilateral actions will further prop up a communist regime in Cuba that has a long record of brutal human rights abuses”, said House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce, R-Calif.
“We have enormous confidence in the American people as ambassadors for the things that we care about”, said Benjamin J. Rhodes, Obama’s deputy national security adviser for strategic communications and his point man on opening relations with Cuba.
As it stands, though, MLB hasn’t yet been able to work out some other differences with the Cuban government, such as how many players can be drafted and whether those players can compete in the Cuban summer leagues, according to US officials familiar with those talks.
From the 1960s until just more than a year ago, American citizens were mostly banned from tourist visits, trade and investment with the Caribbean island, which is barely 145k m south of Florida. USA banks may process financial transactions from Cuba.
A taxi pedals his bicycle, decorated with Cuban and USA flags, as he transports a woman holding a sleeping girl, near the Capitolio in Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, March 15, 2016. “There’s no shortage of opportunities for Americans to build that type of meaningful schedule of people-to-people engagement while they go to Cuba”.
The U.S. government will soon award the first routes for commercial flights between the U.S. and Cuba.
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A communiqué issued by the US Commerce Department confirmed that Pritzker will come to Cuba with a group of entrepreneurs, like Arne Sorenson, executive president of the Marriott International hotel chain, and Ursula Burns, executive president of Xerox. “And we have gotten nothing in return”.
