US to ban American flights to all Cuban cities besides Havana 

The Trump administration on Friday mentioned it would ban U.S. flights to all Cuban locations besides Havana. The ban will develop into efficient in December.

"This motion will stop the [Raul] Castro regime from making the most of U.S. air journey and utilizing the revenues to repress the Cuban individuals," Secretary of State Mike Pompeo mentioned.

One other acknowledged cause for the suspended flights is to stop American tourism in Cuba, which is at the moment banned underneath U.S. regulation. In June, the State Division took it a step additional and prohibited cruise ships from making stops there.

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Opponents of the ban mentioned it would make it harder for Cuban-People to go to household who reside removed from Havana and journey by highway.

The Trump administration has taken steps in current months to starve money from the Cuban authorities, which along with repressing its personal residents is closely allied with Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro.

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Per week in the past, the Commerce Division took direct intention at Cuba‡s tourism trade by limiting airways‡ skills to lease plane. It additionally mentioned the U.S. will develop sanctions to incorporate extra overseas items which can be product of American content material.

“The Cuban regime's disregard for human rights and use of violence to prop up the previous Maduro regime are liable for the continued crises in Cuba and Venezuela,” Pompeo mentioned final month as he instituted a journey ban on the household of communist social gathering chief Raul Castro.

The U.S. authorities has mentioned round 20,000 Cuban troops and brokers have been working in Venezuela to guard Maduro‡s authorities.

“Castro is complicit in undermining Venezuela‡s democracy and triggering the hemisphere‡s largest humanitarian disaster, forcing 15 p.c of the Venezuelan inhabitants to flee the nation and precipitating a meals scarcity and well being disaster of unprecedented scale on this area,” Pompeo mentioned.

Trump in a speech on the United Nations final month known as the Venezuelan chief a “Cuban puppet.”

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“The dictator Maduro is a Cuban puppet, protected by Cuban bodyguards, hiding from his personal individuals, whereas Cubans plunder Venezuela‡s oil wealth to maintain its personal corrupt communist rule,” Trump mentioned.

The Related Press contributed to this report.