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From: Harry Hayfield <harryhayfield~at~googlemail.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:52:02 +0100
To: "Jules Verne Forum" <jvf~at~gilead.org.il>

US President Barack Obama is to lift some restrictions that will allow Cuban
Americans to travel more freely to Cuba, White House sources say.
Cuban-Americans will also be allowed to send more money to relatives in
Cuba. The move, to be officially announced later on Monday, comes after Mr
Obama last month signed a spending bill easing some economic sanctions on
Cuba. "Restrictions on the families will be lifted," an unnamed White House
official told news agency AFP. The Associated Press quoted an unnamed
"senior administration official" as saying that President Obama had directed
his administration to allow unlimited travel and money transfers by Cuban
Americans to family in Cuba.
President Obama has indicated he would be open to dialogue with Cuba's
leaders. But he has said that, like previous American presidents, he will
only consider a full lifting of the embargo once Cuba's communist government
makes significant moves such as the holding of democratic elections. Cuba's
President Raul Castro has said he is prepared to negotiate with the new US
administration, providing there are no preconditions.
Should we sent a Spanish translation of a Verne work to the President as a
"thanks for the freedom of information" that he has asked for?

Received on Mon 13 Apr 2009 - 22:52:20 IDT

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