{"id":2512,"date":"2011-01-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/cms\/?p=2512"},"modified":"2011-01-14T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-14T00:00:00","slug":"6041142011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/2011\/01\/14\/6041142011\/","title":{"rendered":"1\/14\/2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;[President] Barack Obama has eased America&#8217;s long-standing embargo on Cuba, allowing many Americans to travel there for the first time and increasing the amounts that they can invest in the island. Other changes announced by the president will allow all US international airports to accept flights to and from Cuba; at present, chartered flights are restricted to Miami and a handful of other airports. The moves represent an important step to rapprochement between the US and Cuba\u2026Obama&#8217;s move is made by presidential order and cannot be blocked by Congress. But only Congress can lift the embargo\u2026Most Americans are in effect banned from Cuba because it is an offence to spend money on the island. Under the changes, students and academic staff, religious groups and others will be free to visit, and educational exchanges are to be promoted. Americans will be allowed to send up to $500 to support private economic and other activities, though not any involving the Cuban Communist party or its members.\u201d [Con Embargo]<\/p>\n<p><em>Ewen MacAskill, \u201cBarack Obama acts to ease US embargo on Cuba,\u201d TheGuardian.com, January 14, 2011<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;[President] Barack Obama has eased America&#8217;s long-standing embargo on Cuba, allowing many Americans to travel there for the first time and increasing the amounts that they can invest in the island. Other changes announced by the president will allow all US international airports to accept flights to and from Cuba; at present, chartered flights are [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/2011\/01\/14\/6041142011\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from 1\/14\/2011<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-2512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","tag-quotes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2483,"url":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/2003\/04\/20\/5734202003\/","url_meta":{"origin":2512,"position":0},"title":"4\/20\/2003","author":"AmarkData","date":"April 20, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"\"20\/04\/2003 Official Note. An article in the New York Times reported yesterday that President [George W.] Bush was mulling over a series of measures to punish the Cuban government. Among the most dramatic actions is the possibility to suspend remittances for relatives of Cuban-Americans living on the island, an assistance\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;quotes&quot;","block_context":{"text":"quotes","link":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/category\/quotes\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2398,"url":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/1999\/02\/23\/4892231999\/","url_meta":{"origin":2512,"position":1},"title":"2\/23\/1999","author":"AmarkData","date":"February 23, 1999","format":false,"excerpt":"\"February 23 [1999]. The coalition of Americans for Humanitarian Trade With Cuba [AHTC] join the United States Association of Former Members of Congress to call on the Clinton administration to end the embargo on food and medicines to Cuba. \u2018The U.S. embargo on Cuba is the single most restrictive policy\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;quotes&quot;","block_context":{"text":"quotes","link":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/category\/quotes\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2423,"url":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/2001\/04\/18\/5134182001\/","url_meta":{"origin":2512,"position":2},"title":"4\/18\/2001","author":"AmarkData","date":"April 18, 2001","format":false,"excerpt":"\"April 18 [2001]. In Washington, the Cuba Policy Foundation releases a poll in which a majority of Americans are said to support the idea of doing business with Cuba and allowing travel to the island. 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In a public opinion poll conducted for the Miami Herald in February 2003, among Cuban-Americans living in South Florida, there is significant support for ending the travel ban, lifting the cap on\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;quotes&quot;","block_context":{"text":"quotes","link":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/category\/quotes\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2481,"url":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/2003\/04\/09\/571492003\/","url_meta":{"origin":2512,"position":4},"title":"4\/9\/2003","author":"AmarkData","date":"April 9, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"\"Is such momentum for a change in U.S. policy toward Cuba now lost due to Castro\u2019s crackdown on dissidents?...That is, the apparent strategy by the Cuban government to appeal to members of Congress through politically targeted farm purchases, and efforts to court American public opinion have been trumped by actions\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;quotes&quot;","block_context":{"text":"quotes","link":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/category\/quotes\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2367,"url":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/1998\/01\/13\/4561131998\/","url_meta":{"origin":2512,"position":5},"title":"1\/13\/1998","author":"AmarkData","date":"January 13, 1998","format":false,"excerpt":"\"January 13 [1998]. 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