Trump Administration Bans Cruises to Cuba in Clampdown on Communist Regime

Trump Administration Bans Cruises to Cuba in Clampdown on Communist Regime
People look at the arrival of U.S. Carnival cruise ship Adonia at the Havana bay, the first cruise liner to sail between the United States and Cuba since Cuba's 1959 revolution, Cuba, on May 2, 2016. Alexandre Meneghini/File Photo/Reuters
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HAVANA—The Trump administration on June 4 imposed heavy new restrictions on U.S. travel to Cuba, including a ban on cruises, in a further bid to pressure the island’s Communist government to reform and end its support for Venezuela’s illegitimate dictator Nicolas Maduro.

The tightening of the decades-old U.S. embargo on one of the world’s last remaining communist regimes will further wound its crippled economy.