Trump implements new travel restrictions to Cuba

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President Trump announced new restrictions for American travelers going to Cuba, barring them from purchasing rum and tobacco or staying in Cuban government-funded hotels. The Treasury Department announced regulatory changes under the new rules that restrict importing Cuba origin alcohol and tobacco products and prevent travelers from attending or organizing certain professional meetings or conferences in Cuba, as well as public performances, clinics, workshops, competitions, and other exhibitions in the country. Trump also applied new sanctions against Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua as part of an ongoing crackdown against communism.

The announcement was made during the president's address honoring Bay of Pigs veterans who survived a failed attempt nearly 60 years ago to topple the communist government of the late Fidel Castro in Cuba.

Trump said on Wednesday, The Obama-Biden administration made a weak, pathetic, one-sided deal with the Castro dictatorship that betrayed the Cuban people and enriched the communist regime. I canceled the Obama-Biden sellout to the Castro regime.

Trump's newest sanctions threaten to further cripple Cuba's tourism industry already caving in the wake of the global covid-19 pandemic. Cuba's government owns all of the hotels on the island.

A State Department spokesperson said in a statement, The Cuban government’s profits from properties in the hospitality industry owned or controlled by the Cuban government, senior regime officials, Cuban Communist Party leadership, and their families, disproportionately benefit the Cuban government, all at the expense of the Cuban people, who continue to face repression at the hands of the regime.

Democratic presidential rival Vice President Joe Biden has said, he would consider reversing course if he becomes president and reattempting diplomatic advancements with current Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel.

DNC spokesperson Enrique Gutierrez said in a statement, this is a desperate and hypocritical attempt by Trump to pander to Cuban-American voters in Florida. American citizens are already banned from traveling to Cuba because of the covid-19, and Trump has privately sought to do business with the country for years and ignored the embargo. He is filed trademarks with the Cuban government to make money on golf courses, hotels, and more but now that he’s lagging in the polls, he’s just using our foreign policy for his own political gain.

Trump said, The courageous veterans here today bear witness to how socialism, radical mobs, and violent communists, ruin a nation. Now, the Democrat Party is unleashing socialist mobs on America. Today, we proclaim that America will never be a socialist country.