Reprint from CNN | Patrick Oppmann| Feb. 9, 2021 Cuba took a long-awaited and likely irreversible step towards massively expanding the island’s private sector over the weekend. On Saturday, Cuba’s communist-run government announced that Cubans will soon be able to seek employment or start businesses in most fields of work. Previously, Cubans were restricted to working in […]
Cuba Travel Policy
Biden Plots Cuba Reset in Rebuke of Trump’s Sanctions
Reprint from Bloomberg | B. Bartenstein | Dec. 15, 2020 The president-elect plans to reduce restrictions on Havana President-elect Joe Biden’s team plans to bring the U.S. closer to normalized relations with Cuba, reversing many of the sanctions and regulations imposed during the Trump administration, according to people familiar with the matter. That strategy includes […]
Trump’s Cuba travel threat has caused a bookings rush
Reprint from Travel Weekly | Johanna Jainchill | May 02, 2019 As travel suppliers puzzle over the possible impact of an announced but not specified change in U.S. policy toward Cuba, consumers are rushing to book trips before potential restrictions kick in. “The John Bolton speech … has seemingly energized the traveling public,” said Insight […]
U.S. Embassy Resumes Services in Havana
The same day the State Department downgraded Cuba’s travel advisory to Level 2, it also announced that the Havana embassy was resuming a full range of services for American citizens. Via the U.S. Embassy website: As of August 23, 2018 the U.S. Embassy in Havana resumed offering the full range of American Citizen Services including […]
U.S. State Department softens travel advisory on Cuba
Excerpt from Reuters | Aug. 23, 2018 The United States on Thursday revised its travel advisory on Cuba to “exercise increased caution,” from “reconsider travel,” a move that some in the tourism sector hope could help reverse a decline in American visitors to the Caribbean island. The U.S. State Department had warned its citizens last […]
What’s next? Cuba?
Excerpt from The Union – June 28, 2018 I believe President Trump will soon normalize relations with Cuba. While watching Trump’s historic meeting with North Korea’s Kim, I mentioned this theory to friends as a joke. I now realize that a deal is probably in the works. One of Trump’s major goals has been to […]