The Trump administration has imposed heavy new restrictions on travel to Cuba by US citizens, including a ban on cruises, in a bid to further pressure the communist island over its support for Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro.
The tightening of the decades-old US embargo on the Caribbean’s largest island will further wound its crippled economy as well as hurt US travel companies that had built up business with Cuba during a brief 2014-2016 detente under Barack Obama.
The state department said the United States would no longer allow “group people-to-people educational travel”, one of the most popular exemptions to the overall ban on US tourism to Cuba.Read More…..https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/04/us-imposes-new-cuba-travel-restrictions-including-ban-on-cruises