US suspends private charter flights to Cuba
Posted on AllSides August 14th, 2020
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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tweeted that "the Castro regime uses tourism and travel funds to finance its abuses and interference in Venezuela".
Last October the US banned regular scheduled flights to all cities in communist-run Cuba except Havana.
Tourism to Cuba has already been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic.
Hardline policies towards Cuba and its regional ally Venezuela are welcomed by conservative Cuban-American groups in Florida, a key battleground state which Donald Trump hopes to win in the November presidential election.
The suspension of charter flights comes...
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