Trump cancels 'one-sided' US deal with Cuba
June 16, 2017  23:28
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United States President Donald Trump has just announced that he is cancelling the Obama administration's one-sided deal with Cuba, effective immediately. 

"With God's help a free Cuba is what we soon will achieve," Trump said.

"We will not be silent in the face of communist oppression any longer," Trump said, saying America would "expose the crimes of the Castro regime."

The shift coming on the two-year anniversary of Trump announcing his candidacy takes aim at President Barack Obama's 2014 decision to end decades of detachment from the island nation, and bans US business with the military-run conglomerate that controls much of Cuba's economy.

Individual travel to Cuba also will be curtailed.

Yet it is not a wholesale reversal of the rapprochement, with travel through organized groups still permitted, as well as business unrelated to the conglomerate known as GAESA. Planes and cruise ships can still head to Cuba, and Americans are free to bring home rum and cigars. Diplomatic posts in Havana and Washington are unaffected.

Trump also is not reversing Obama's decision to get rid of the "wet foot, dry foot" policy that allowed Cuban immigrants who reached US soil to remain legally.
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