"Trump administration bans cruises to Cuba in clampdown on U.S. travel- The Trump administration on Tuesday imposed heavy new restrictions on travel to Cuba by U.S. citizens, including a ban on cruises, in a bid to further pressure the Communist island."
Some perspective: in 2017, Cuba received 1.5 million visitors from the U.S. Given a big spike in recent cruise ship landings, that figure was expected to balloon in 2019, and the Castro-Crime-Syndicate was rubbing its hands and whooping in anticipation of this Obama-generated financial windfall.
When travel to Cuba was promoted by the U.S. government and Cuba served as a "Tourist playground" for Americans, the island annually received around 200,000 tourists from the U.S. In fact, up until 1953, more Cubans had vacationed in the U.S. annually than did Americans in Cuba, as befit a developed nation with a larger middle-class than much of Europe of the time.
What happened recently is that, though U.S. tourism to Cuba remained technically illegal according to U.S. law, Obama had opened up so many loopholes that Americans became second only to Canadians as vacationers in Cuba.
As Obama implemented his Cuba "Opening" your humble servant went blue in the face trying to explain the horrible-but eminently predictable-consequence to some libertarians on John Stossel's show.
Contrary to all the media blather about Raul Castro and his successor's Diaz-Canel's "Reforms," Cuba hasn't budged a millimeter from its spot in the Heritage Economic Freedom list.
In the process, your humble servant revealed that- as a percentage of the Cuban population- the number of Cubans currently "Self-employed" in Cuba is about the same as were similarly employed when fanatical Maoist/Stalinist Che Guevara served as Cuba's "Minister of the Economy."
https://townhall.com/columnists/humbertofontova/2019/06/08/trump-tightens-stranglehold-on-castros-financial-throatscraps-obamas-failed-cuba-policy-n2547746
Some perspective: in 2017, Cuba received 1.5 million visitors from the U.S. Given a big spike in recent cruise ship landings, that figure was expected to balloon in 2019, and the Castro-Crime-Syndicate was rubbing its hands and whooping in anticipation of this Obama-generated financial windfall.
When travel to Cuba was promoted by the U.S. government and Cuba served as a "Tourist playground" for Americans, the island annually received around 200,000 tourists from the U.S. In fact, up until 1953, more Cubans had vacationed in the U.S. annually than did Americans in Cuba, as befit a developed nation with a larger middle-class than much of Europe of the time.
What happened recently is that, though U.S. tourism to Cuba remained technically illegal according to U.S. law, Obama had opened up so many loopholes that Americans became second only to Canadians as vacationers in Cuba.
As Obama implemented his Cuba "Opening" your humble servant went blue in the face trying to explain the horrible-but eminently predictable-consequence to some libertarians on John Stossel's show.
Contrary to all the media blather about Raul Castro and his successor's Diaz-Canel's "Reforms," Cuba hasn't budged a millimeter from its spot in the Heritage Economic Freedom list.
In the process, your humble servant revealed that- as a percentage of the Cuban population- the number of Cubans currently "Self-employed" in Cuba is about the same as were similarly employed when fanatical Maoist/Stalinist Che Guevara served as Cuba's "Minister of the Economy."
https://townhall.com/columnists/humbertofontova/2019/06/08/trump-tightens-stranglehold-on-castros-financial-throatscraps-obamas-failed-cuba-policy-n2547746
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