Pres. Trump is further tightening his administration's pressure campaign against Cuba as it unravels the historic opening implemented by former Pres. Barack Obama.
In October, the administration banned commercial air travel to Cuban cities except Havana. Charter flights open to the public had expanded as a way around that, although it is a more expensive alternative.
The coalition added in a separate Tweet to Pompeo,"We have now have three years of the Trump administration, how have the lives of the Cuban people been concretely improved by their policy?" An American Airlines executive greets travel agents on the tarmac as they arrive in Cienfuegos on American Airlines' inaugural scheduled service from Miami to Cuba in Sept. 2016.
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