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In recent days Cubans have struggled to take in the news of the reduction of US embassy staff in Havana and the indefinite suspension the processing of visas for Cubans desiring to travel to that country. The diplomatic thaw announced in December 2014 by both governments is currently experiencing a glaciation that could worsen in the coming days with new measures from Washington.
The United States said it was cutting its diplomatic presence in Cuba by more than a half because of mysterious "attacks" against its embassy personnel and was therefore halting regular visa operations. Photo - Reuters The United States said it was cutting its diplomatic presence in Cuba by more than a half because of mysterious "attacks" against its embassy personnel and was therefore halting regular visa operations.
Cubans said they were both heartbroken and enraged by the United States' decision yesterday to stop processing visas at its embassy in Havana that would further tear at the seams of families already divided by the Florida Straits. The United States said it was cutting its diplomatic presence in Cuba by more than a half because of mysterious "attacks" against its embassy personnel and was therefore halting regular visa operations.
Sec. of State Rex Tillerson on Sunday said that he is considering shutting down the U.S. embassy in Havana, Cuba over a spate of mysterious sonic attacks aimed at American diplomats stationed there. "We have it under evaluation.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Friday that U.S. diplomats in Havana were the victims of "health attacks" that left them with hearing loss -- the most definitive U.S. statement yet on a series of incidents that have puzzled analysts of U.S.-Cuban relations. Tillerson's comments came two days after the State Department issued a vague statement saying there had been "incidents which have caused a variety of physical symptoms."
The establishment of Cuba's two different currencies , and their different applications , according to the Government's convenience, besides sowing economic chaos, also features an immoral component for those affected by it. Setting aside the unfair and all too well known problem of being paid wages in CUP and having to make purchases in CUC, as well as the exorbitant prices of products, there are other no less arbitrary manifestations, such as the 12.5% ?? subtracted from every dollar when exchanged for CUC.
Cuba's Foreign Minister lashed out at Donald Trump's decision to restrict U.S. travel and business with his country on Monday, calling the president's announcement last week "a grotesque spectacle that came out of the Cold War." "There will not be a presidential directive from the U.S. that will alter the direction of Cuba," Bruno Rodriguez told journalists in Vienna, where he was meeting with Austrian officials.
President Trump is en route to Miami, where he'll announce his plans for halting the f... . Nelson Avila, center, joins anti-President Donald Trump protesters, calling for open relations with Cuba on Friday, June 16, 2017, in Miami.
President Donald Trump's decision to reverse some Obama-era Cuba policies landed with a thud among many congressional Republicans who say the new approach surrenders a potentially lucrative market for American goods and services to competitors. While anti-Castro conservatives hailed Trump's partial roll-back of President Barack Obama's detente, a number of other GOP lawmakers, particularly from farm states, criticized the change as misguided and isolationist.
President Donald Trump cheered violinist Luis Haza, who was born in Cuba, after playing the national anthem during a speech on Cuban policy today. MIAMI>> Pressing "pause" on a historic detente, President Donald Trump thrust the U.S. and Cuba back on a path toward open hostility today with a blistering denunciation of the island's communist government.
Pressing "pause" on a historic detente, President Donald Trump thrust the U.S. and Cuba back on a path toward open hostility Friday with a blistering denunciation of the island's communist government. He clamped down on some commerce and travel but left intact many new avenues President Barack Obama had opened.
President Donald Trump declared Friday he was restoring some travel and economic restrictions on Cuba that were lifted as part of the Obama administration's historic easing. He challenged the communist government of Raul Castro to negotiate a better deal for Cubans and Cuban-Americans.
President Donald Trump appears set to walk back some aspects of the normalization of US-Cuba relations conducted by President Barack Obama during his final years in office. According to a draft of an eight-page directive Trump is expected to sign on Friday during an event at Miami's Manuel Artime Theater - named for a leader of the failed Bay of Pigs invasion - the US government will restrict the number of reasons Americans can travel to the island and prohibit financial dealings with companies controlled by the Cuban military.
President Trump announced a dramatic reversal Friday of the Obama administration's Cuba policy, restoring restrictions on U.S. travel to the island and new prohibitions on financial transactions that benefit the communist regime's military. "We will not be silent in the face of communist oppression any longer," Mr. Trump said in Miami.
Stopping short of a complete turnabout, President Donald Trump is expected Friday to announce a revised Cuba policy aimed at stopping the flow of U.S. cash to the country's military and security services while maintaining diplomatic relations and allowing U.S. airlines and cruise ships to continue service to the island. In a speech Friday at a Miami theater associated with Cuban exiles, Trump will cast the policy moves as fulfillment of a promise he made during last year's presidential campaign to reverse then-President Barack Obama's diplomatic re-engagement with the island after decades of estrangement.
President Barack Obama's 2014 opening with Cuba helped funnel American travel dollars into military-linked tourism conglomerates even as state security agents waged a fierce crackdown on dissent. The rapprochement also poured hundreds of millions in U.S. spending into privately owned businesses on the island, supercharging the growth of an entrepreneurial middle-class independent of the communist state.
Soot covers the unpainted facades of buildings on Tenth of October Boulevard. Old American cars from the 1950s, rebuilt with modern diesel engines and now privately operated as taxis, transit across asphalt, leaving behind a trail of black smoke and the unpleasant odor of gasoline.
In this Friday, April 28, 2017 photo, a bartender pours Cuban Havana Club rum as he prepares daiquiris at the Floridita bar in Havana, Cuba. The agency that controls Pennsylvania's state-owned wine and liquor stores is working to lift the embargo on Cuban rum.
An article appearing in the Spanish newspaper El PaA s , entitled "EspaA a no puede perder Cuba dos veces" , analyzes the machinations of the latest Spanish Governments' policies towards Cuba, and observes that "Rajoy's government seems determined to make up for lost time with Havana."