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US President Donald Trump has signed a memorandum, which will impose tougher restrictions on Cuba.
The move is aimed at abolishing some measures imposed by the Biden administration that will alleviate the country’s pressure on the communist country.
The White House said he would implement an existing ban on US tourists who are going to coarse more and oppose calls for international organizations such as the UN to stop the US Economic embargo on the Caribbean.
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said the memorandum “increases the aggression and economic blockade that punishes the entire Cuban people and is the main obstacle to our development.”
In an article published on your siteThe White House said to complete “economic practices that are disproportionate to benefit the Cuban government, military, intelligence or security agencies at the expense of the Cuban people.”
US citizens are already forbidden to go to Cuba exclusively for tourism, but there are 12 categories of travel, which are allowed, including family and educational visits, humanitarian projects and sports.
The new memorandum states that the preservation of the existing policy will be carried out through regular checks and “mandatory accounting of all travel operations for at least five years”.
It also forbids us citizens to do business with Gaesa, a conglomerate managing the Cuban military, who owns numerous Cuba hotels.
Tourism is one of the main sources of the Cuban government, but the number of visitors decreased when the deficit on the Caribbean’s island became more serious, and several nationwide cuts were loaded into the darkness.
The Memorandum emphasizes that President Trump “seeks to form a free and democratic Cuba, referring to many years of suffering of the Cuban peoples under the communist regime.”
The policy listed in the document was built for measures that Trump has implemented in his first term as well as in recent months.
Shortly after the oath for a second term, Trump resumed Cuba’s appointment as a state sponsor of terrorism, which was raised a few days before the then President Joe Biden.
Trump and his iron policy towards Cuba have been strongly supported by the Cuban US community in the US.
However, the decision of the Trump administration to stop the temporary protective status (TPS) for the Cubans – as well as the Haitians, Nicaragua and Venezuelans – met with many Cuban Americans widely disappointed.
