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Upgrading Travel to Cuba in the New Year
Upgrading Travel to Cuba in the New Year
Posted: 01/02/2014 12:21 pm
The Town of Remedios
President Obama has opened the door part way for travel to Cuba.
His remarks in Miami in November suggest the White House is preparing to take the next step:
"We have to be creative. And we have to be thoughtful. And we have to continue to update our policies"
Ten days later Secretary of State Kerry, in his speech to the Interamerican Dialog program at the hall of the Organization of American States, added this specificity:
"We are committed to this human interchange, and in the United States we believe that our people are actually our best ambassadors. They are ambassadors of our ideals, of our values, of our beliefs."
Last January Cuba gave greater freedom to it citizens than Americans possess when it abolished rules requiring government authorization of travel.
Will the president respond and open the door further for us in the New Year?
More:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-mcauliff/upgrading-travel-to-cuba-_b_4524161.html
