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...original version of this article incorrectly stated that Cuban Americans are currently allowed to visit Cuba once a year. In fact, under current restrictions, they can only visit once every three years...
...Writing in the Miami Herald, Obama called the Bush approach to Cuba "blundering" and instead laid out a new path toward improved relations: lifting all restrictions on visits to the Island by Cuban Americans (visits are permitted only once every three years now), as well as limits on their financial remittances to kin on the island...
...stuck in the old way of thinking. "Barack is trying to send a signal of change in foreign policy," one of Obama's foreign policy advisers said. "New century. New challenges, new opportunities, new thinking... What's new here is that we are trying to restore the ability of Cuban Americans to be involved with Cuba - who better than they? On the other hand, Castro has defied all expectations before and though there will be a post-Fidel government, its not likely to be a democracy. So we need stuff in our pocket to [bargain] with...
...Obama's latest gambit isn't only about recasting his image - he is also laying down a trademark political bet here. Normally, Cuban policy is never much more than a wash for Democrats: so many Cuban Americans register and vote as Republicans that there isn't much point in trying to woo them with policy proposals, unless they are hard-line, which usually results in pandering charges. But Obama seems to see an opening here others don't: he appears to be making, with this proposal, a pitch for younger voters and newly arrived Cuban immigrants, who have more liberal...
...small one - feels much differently from the old guard. Either because they didn't live through the revolution or have immigrated so recently, typically in the last five to seven years, they still feel some tie to the regime, or people who work for it. And one hard-line Cuban-American political activist said that some Cuban Americans resent the Bush Administration's restrictions and are no longer as enamoured of the Republican connection. They are beginning, she said, to think anew. "People are shopping now," she said...