U.S. flights to all Cuban cities banned, leaving out Havana

Tuesday, October 29, 2019

Officials said that the Trump administration is banning U.S. flights to all Cuban cities except Havana. The latest move is to roll back the Obama-era easing of relations.

The Havana government will be starved and will limit its ability to repress Cuba and support Venezulan President Nicolas Maduro.

If flights are prohibited it will make it harder for Cuban-Americans to visit their families outside the capital. This will however have less impact on the Cuban government.
Starting in December the JetBlue flights to Santa Clara in central Cub and the eastern cuties of Holguin, Camaguey would be banned by the State Department.

American Airlines flights connecting Camaguey, Holguin and Santa Clara, the beach resort of Varadero and the eastern city of Santiago are also being banned.
The flights to Havana accounting for the great majority of U.S. flights to Cuba, will remain legal.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that this action will prevent the Castro regime from profiting from U.S. air travel and using the revenues to repress the Cuban people.Raul Castro stepped down as president last year but remains head of the Communist Party, the country’s highest authority.

Carlos F. de Cossío, head of Cuba’s department of U.S. affairs said that eager to punish Cuba’s unbreakable defiance, imperialism is going after regular flights to various Cuban cities. It doesn’t matter that they’re affecting family relations, or the modest pocketbooks of most Cubans in both countries.

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