Obama: Cuba Travel Restrictions To Be Eased

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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — President Barack Obama plans to loosen Cuban travel policy to allow students and church groups to go to the communist country, the administration announced Friday.

Students seeking academic credit and churches traveling for religious purposes will be able to go to Cuba. The plan will also let any American send as much as $500 every three months to Cuban citizens who are not part of the Castro administration and are not members of the Communist Party.

Also, more airports will be allowed to offer charter service. Right now, only three airports – in Miami, Los Angeles and New York City – can offer authorized charters to Cuba. That will be expanded to any international airport with proper customs and immigration facilities as long as licensed travel agencies ask to run charters from the airport.

On Friday, one Florida airport was already taking steps to offer service to Cuba.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/14/obama-cuba-travel-restrictions_n_809408.html

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1. Great News

The more the merrier. Taking off the embargo would be even better, what Cuba needs is a lot of visitors and no excuses for the communists to justify their lousy governance. Take the embargo off, and the Cuban people will force the dinosaurs out in a jiffy.