{"id":25258,"date":"2011-01-16T23:33:17","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T03:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/dno\/?p=25258"},"modified":"2011-01-17T09:36:22","modified_gmt":"2011-01-17T13:36:22","slug":"us-eases-travel-restrictions-to-cuba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/news\/regional\/us-eases-travel-restrictions-to-cuba\/","title":{"rendered":"US eases travel restrictions to Cuba"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_25259\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25259\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-25259\" title=\"Barack Obama\" src=\"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/dno\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/obama_cuba-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/obama_cuba-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/obama_cuba-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/obama_cuba.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25259\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Barack Obama is working hard at improving Cuba-US relations.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>WASHINGTON (CMC) \u2013 The Obama administration on Friday eased restrictions on Americans\u2019 travel to Cuba in what it says is an effort to encourage more contact between nationals of both countries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe president has directed that changes be made to regulations and policies governing purposeful travel, non-family remittances and US airports supporting licensed charter flights to and from Cuba,\u201d the White House said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamaicaobserver.com\/news\/US-eases-travel-restrictions-to-Cuba#ixzz1BH8ZCd4o\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read more<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (CMC) \u2013 The Obama administration on Friday eased restrictions on Americans\u2019 travel to Cuba in what it says is an effort to encourage more contact between nationals of both countries. \u201cThe president has directed that changes be made to&#8230;","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":25259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-regional"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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