Trump wants Cuba's Hotel and Entertainment market, uses U.S. policy to get it?

Trump is on the cusp of reversing President Barack Obama’s limited opening to Cuba, moving back toward Cold War-era policies designed as part of a catastrophically failed half-century attempt to foster regime change. Carried out under the unlikely banner, for Trump, of human rights and democracy, the shift is instead more likely to re-impose hardships on ordinary Cubans — the very same people Trump, Rubio, and Diaz-Balart claim to champion. 

“Effective immediately, I am canceling the last administration’s completely one-sided deal with Cuba. Easing of restrictions on travel and trade does not help the Cuban people. They only enrich the Cuban regime.”

…impose new limits on commercial transactions that involve the Cuban military. That could have far-reaching effects since the military touches almost every corner of the Cuban economy. Many of the big hotels in Havana, for example, would be off-limits to American visitors.

“We will very strongly restrict American dollars flowing to the military, security, and intelligence services that are the core of the Castro regime,” Trump said.

I wasn’t the only one who saw the obvious, despite the media blind spot on this new Cuban policy. A frequent guest on MSNBC, Richard Painter tweeted:

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