{"id":95785540,"date":"2010-09-17T12:19:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T12:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/cuba-gives-obama-19-ways-to-loosen-embargo\/"},"modified":"2010-09-17T12:19:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-17T12:19:00","slug":"cuba-gives-obama-19-ways-to-loosen-embargo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/cuba-gives-obama-19-ways-to-loosen-embargo\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuba Gives Obama 19 Ways to Loosen Embargo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\">\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<strong>Obama seeks to loosen U.S. embargo <\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nCuba is providing a series of small but particular steps the Obama administration can take to soften the United States&rsquo; 48-year-old trade embargo, including increasing flights and establishing ferry service between both countries and removing bank bans that prevent U.S. credit cards from working on the island.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe new 19 suggestions are in addition to the communist government&rsquo;s annual report criticizing Washington&rsquo;s trade sanctions. Cuba puts together the report every year ahead of an annual United Nations vote in which the world overwhelmingly condemns the embargo.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe report notes that the President cannot get rid of the full embargo without approval from Congress, but uses pages 4-7 to note steps his administration can take unilaterally.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Source:<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/m.apnews.com\/ap\/db_16045\/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=PXwuXgvi\" target=\"_blank\"> Associated Press <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Obama seeks to loosen U.S. embargo &nbsp; Cuba is providing a series of small but particular steps the Obama administration can take to soften the United States&rsquo; 48-year-old trade embargo, including increasing flights and establishing ferry service between both countries and removing bank bans that prevent U.S. credit cards from working on the island. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95785540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95785540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95785540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95785540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95785540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95785540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95785540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}