What people traveling to Cuba should know about Trump's restrictions

But how numerous steps President Barack Obama took to thaw our relationship with Cuba could Trump actually undo?

Reversing yet another policy move by Barack Obama, President Trump plans to re-institute restrictions on travel to Cuba and US business dealings with entities tied to the Cuban military and intelligence services, officials said Thursday.

The White House today confirmed that President Donald Trump will deliver a speech in Miami on U.S. policy toward Cuba tomorrow.

The administration aims to reinforce certain aspects of about six-decade-old trade embargo in an attempt of preventing business dealings with companies controlled by the Cuban military, according to a draft version of the directive obtained by POLITICO.

The restrictions may have a chilling effect on Americans looking to travel to Cuba, which enjoyed large support from both Democrats and Republicans.

Critics of the changes warn that scaling back travel could hurt small businesses that have sprung up in Cuba, catering to a wave of USA tourists who have come to the island since the travel ban was relaxed.

"It could boring a boom in tourism by Americans to Cuba and hurt a burgeoning cottage industry of private enterprise on the socialist-ruled island", it says. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said as much to U.S. senators: "We think we have achieved very little in terms of changing the behavior of the regime in Cuba. and it has little incentive today to change that".

Since Obama's historic effort in his second term to normalize relations with Cuba, Americans have been allowed to travel to the island nation under 12 different categories of travel with just a general license. What's most important is that the ratcheting back of Obama's policy not be the end of USA efforts to force reform in Cuba.

Trump is scheduled announce the new Cuba policies at 1 p.m at the Manuel Artime Theater in Little Havana.

Trump will curtail cash flow to the Cuba's communist government in a reversal of some Obama Administration policies to be unveiled Friday in Miami.

According to the Miami Herald, President Trump will tighten travel restrictions and ban US spending with any state-run businesses tied to the military. The Treasury Department will soon issue new regulations regarding the forms of travel that are acceptable.

President Trump will not be closing embassies or breaking off diplomatic relations restored in Y 2015 after more than 50 years of hostility.

The Cuban government has made clear it will not be pressured into reforms in exchange for further engagement with the US.

Flights and cruise ships from the United States will not be restricted. This new policy helps them.

GOP Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, where many Cuban Americans still despise the Castro regime, applauded the move even though it could cost airlines and other tourism businesses money. That seems odd given that the Trump administration is not particularly fond of pursuing that agenda in its foreign policy: there was no mention of human rights and political freedom during his visit to Saudi Arabia, for example. Though Trump will announce his new policy this Friday, nothing will change until the agencies implement those regulations.