The Trump administration's newest restrictions on flights to Cuba have left Cubans and Cuban Individuals anxious that journey will turn into sophis
The Trump administration’s newest restrictions on flights to Cuba have left Cubans and Cuban Individuals anxious that journey will turn into sophisticated, leaving their households and native companies to undergo “torture.”
Since then-President Barack Obama restored business flights to Cuba in 2016, extra Cuban Individuals have been visiting relations in provinces removed from the nation’s capital of Havana on direct flights. That choice might be ending quickly; final week, the Trump administration announced that flights to all airports except Havana will come to an finish Dec. 9.
Meaning the journey to Cuba that Eloina Ramos, 74, is planning to soak up January to go to her 96-year-old mom could also be extra sophisticated than she anticipated.
Annually, since Ramos got here to the USA in 1980, she visits her mom, two sisters and brother within the central province of Ciego de Avila. She takes garments, meals, drugs and nutritional vitamins to her household.
Now, Ramos mentioned, she should fly to Havana — slightly than the close by airport in Camaguey — and take a taxi to her mom’s home, which is a six-hour drive from the capital. The opposite choice is to take a bus that may be unreliable or use the constitution firms which might be infamous for being understaffed, in addition to require four-hour check-ins.
“I do not know why they terminated the flights. I want that they had executed one thing…