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Apr 24, 2024 · U.S.-Cuba Relations. Cuba has long been a major foreign policy challenge for the United States. President Biden is the latest U.S. leader to grapple with how to balance democracy...
Dec 16, 2022 · On May 15, 2022, as part of its new set of policies towards Cuba, the Biden administration authorized scheduled and charter flights between the United States and locations beyond Havana. It also reinstated group people-to-people and other categories of educational travel, as well as certain travel related to professional meetings and ...
Aug 11, 2022 · The changes, which emanated from a policy review begun in 2021, fall into four broad areas—facilitating family reunification, expanding authorized travel, easing restrictions on remittances, and supporting Cuba’s private sector.
- Carl Meacham
- Establishing diplomatic relations with Cuba for the first time since 1961;
- Adjusting existing regulations in order to “more effectively empower the Cuban people” through people-to-people contact, support for Cuban civil society, and furthering the free flow of information;
- Facilitating the expansion of the 12 existing categories of travel to Cuba already permitted under existing U.S. law;
- Easing restrictions on remittances to Cuba—both raising quarterly remittance limits and eliminating the need for specific licensing;
Mar 19, 2020 · Since the early 1960s, when the United States imposed a trade embargo on Cuba, the centerpiece of U.S. policy toward Cuba has consisted of economic sanctions aimed at isolating the government. In 2014, the Obama Administration initiated a major policy shift moving away from sanctions toward engagement and the normalization of relations.
Driven by Cuba’s difficult economic conditions and political repression, irregular Cuban migration to the United States has surged over the past year. In FY2021, U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported 39,303 border enforcement encounters of Cubans at the Southwest border. In the first six months of FY2022, Cuban encounters rose to 79,835.
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Jan 20, 2023 · The article proposes an approach to the US Cuba policy in the 21st century as public policy. We examine the core variables that drive this Cuba policy and their behaviour during the 21st...
