Heard the talk in school on Obama letting travelers go to cuba.. etc etc.
So I was optimistic towards this thinking any US civilian can travel to cuba/ the trade embargo would be lifted.
but no thats not the case. He is only allowing for family travel aka anyone cubans that want to visit their relatives in Cuba, and guess what they can also do? Give them money/gifts! With the US dollar they are likely to be getting allows the Cubans to buy stuff off their black market. And we still cant trade with cuba.
Now I dont know what's the reason behind keeping the embargo act on Cuba. I mean we are out of the cold war arent we? And if it's because theyre communist, why do we trade with china? is it because they provide cheap labor for some of our companies?.
Story found here
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/13/us...heet.html?_r=1