Obama May Ease U.S. Travel to Cuba Even If Congress Won't Act

Jens Erik Gould and Nicole Gaouette
Bloomberg
August 9, 2010

A move by President Barack Obama to ease travel restrictions to Cuba would allow the administration to change U.S. policy toward the island even if legislation to repeal a wider travel ban isn’t approved by Congress this year.

Obama may change rules to allow more Americans to visit the island on educational and cultural trips, a U.S. official, who declined to be named because he isn’t authorized to speak on the subject, said Aug. 6. The official didn’t give additional details on what the changes would be.

“Lifting the congressional travel ban was always going to be difficult,” said Christopher Sabatini, policy director of the Council of the Americas business group, in a phone interview from New York. “This is an effort to move the policy forward in some way, but in a way that will be much more palatable to the embargo’s supporters.”

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