Washington (AP) – President Donald Trump Its top cabinet officers have been directed to review the US policy towards Cuba, ordering them to investigate the current restrictions and come up with ways to tighten them within 30 days.
In a memorandum on Monday, Trump said the reviews should focus on the treatment of Cuba’s dissatisfaction, its policies directed and banned financial transactions on disgruntled and banned financial transactions that “Cuba government, military, intelligence or security agencies at the cost of the people of Cuba have unevenly benefited.”
In a potentially significant change, the order said that the US should seek ways to shut down all tourism on the island and to restrict educational tourism for groups organized and run only by American citizens.
This step is not surprising that Trump has earlier stated that he is planning to reduce sanctions and other punishments in Cuba, which were established during the terms of democratic presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden. In the days before leaving the office, Biden was near Went to raise Cuban American designation As a state sponsor of terrorism.
Trump’s memorandum “supports Cuba’s economic embarragos and opposes calls in other international forums for its termination,” according to a fact letter.
In Cuba, Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez responded rapidly to the document.
The President’s Memorandum vs. #Cuba strengthens the #Cuba aggression and economic blockade issued by the US government which punishes the people of the entire Cuba and the main obstacle for our development, “they have written on X”. It is a criminal behavior that violates the #Humanrights of an entire nation. ,
Trump administration has also created Cuba One of the seven countries that is facing increased sanctions On visitors and Temporary legal safety canceled For around 300,000 cubits, which saved him from exile.
Administration has also announced Visa ban Cuba and foreign government officials involved in Cuba’s medical missions, which State Secretary Marco Rubio has called “forcible labor”.
In Interview with Associated Press This month, Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernandez de Kosio accused the United States of trying to discredit medical missions and criticized the reversal of a policy welcoming Cubbons in the US.
Rubio, whose family left Cuba before the Communist Revolution in the 1950s Fidel Castro In power, there has been a proposer of restrictions on the Communist Island for a long time.
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AP writer Andrea Rodriguez contributed to this report in Havana.
Matthew Lee, Associated Press
