CUBA/FOREIGN POLICY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump likely will fulfill a campaign promise this month by curbing some of the ties with Cuba that former president Barack Obama adopted when he made his historic overture to the communist island.
Trump threatened during campaign stops in the Cuban-American enclave of Miami to cut ties with Cuba. After winning the election, he tweeted that he might ‘terminate’ Obama’s renewal of diplomatic relations with Cuba, which ended more than 50 years of estrangement that began during the Cold War.
Cuban experts say Trump has backed off that stance, noting he has been preoccupied with other issues, plus a broad collection of American businesses have benefited from the opening.
‘All the initial signs were that he was going to reverse everything,’ said Frank Mora, a former Defense Department official under Obama and now director of the Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center at Florida International University in Miami. ‘But (Trump) doesn’t really care about Cuba. There’s going to be much more symbolism in the kinds of changes they will announce than anything substantive.’ “
-Alan Gomez, “Want to visit Cuba? Trump may make it harder,” USA Today, June 2, 2017 06:06am