Tag: Cuba travel restrictions

• Friday, August 14th 2020 - 10:14 UTC

  More pressure on Cuba: all private charter flights with the US suspended

  

  The US administration has suspended all private charter flights between the United States and Cuba, to increase economic pressure on Havana. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tweeted that “the Castro regime uses tourism and travel funds to finance its abuses and interference in Venezuela”.

• Thursday, June 6th 2019 - 09:55 UTC

  Trump administration clamps down on US tourist visits to Cuba: cruise industry in shock

  

  The Trump administration clamped down on US tourist visits to Cuba on Tuesday, aiming to cut the flow of dollars to a country that Washington accuses of helping prop up Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

• Monday, February 18th 2013 - 06:23 UTC

  Cuba’s best-known dissident with ‘knees trembling’ makes it through Havana airport without incident

  

  Cuba's best-known dissident, blogger Yoani Sánchez checked in without incident at Havana's international airport on Sunday on her way to Brazil, the first stop on an 80-day-tour of a dozen countries. She was sent off with hugs by a small group of family members and friends.

• Monday, January 14th 2013 - 03:28 UTC

  Cubans a little bit more free: restrictions on overseas travel relaxed after 50 years

  

  After over half a century, Cuba's new immigration rules that will take effect on January 14 will relax overseas travel restrictions, Havana authorities said. From Tuesday Cubans intending to travel can apply for a passport without the need to present a government permit, known as the White Card, or an invitation letter from abroad, two prior requisites that made travel planning more onerous, according to Cuba's immigration bureau (IND).

• Wednesday, October 17th 2012 - 04:37 UTC

  After half a century Cuba scraps travel restrictions, but they remain for ‘human talent’

  

  Cuba will scrap much reviled travel restrictions starting in January, easing most Cubans' exit and return, state media said on Tuesday, in the Castro brothers’ regime first major immigration reform in half a century.