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Archive Home > 2009 > April > 14 > U.S. eases Cuba restrictions

U.S. eases Cuba restrictions

Cuban-Americans can travel, send money to homeland with impunity

By Lesley Clark / The Bulletin
April 14, 2009

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Monday made the first U.S. overture toward Cuba in decades, lifting all travel and gift restrictions for Cuban-Americans and sending charter tour companies scrambling for more and bigger jets to meet the expected demand.

The formal announcement....

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