MIAMI — President Trump, denouncing what he called his predecessor’s “terrible and misguided” opening to Cuba, outlined a new policy Friday that seeks to curb commercial dealings with the government in Havana and to limit the newfound freedom of U.S. citizens to travel to the island.
“Effective immediately, I am canceling the last administration’s completely one-sided deal with Cuba,” Trump told an enthusiastic audience, heavily weighted with members of South Florida’s Cuban American community who opposed former president Barack Obama’s normalization of relations with the communist government of President Raúl Castro.
Away from the tribulations of Washington, where he is bombarded with questions about investigations of his administration and regularly tweets his outrage, Trump appeared buoyed by the change of subject and adulation from a crowd that chanted his name.
Speaking in a packed theater in the heart of Miami’s Little Havana, he ticked off a litany of past and present examples of Cuban government repression, and said that Obama’s easing of restrictions on travel and trade had not helped thepeople
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