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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Eyeing a Cuba Travel-Policy Shift [Watch (HLS stream): Eyeing a Cuba Travel-Policy Shift](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/WoC5Sktl.m3u8) (5:47)  _Published 2008-12-13. Tour companies and Cuban-Americans in Miami are looking for a change in travel policy when President-Elect Obama takes office_ --- Jul 27, 2023 1:04 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [It Just Got a Lot Harder for Americans to Travel to Cuba. Here's What to Know](/video/Lc7WGw4u/) ### It Just Got a Lot Harder for Americans to Travel to Cuba. Here's What to Know [Americans’ Views About Foreign Policy](/video/NBVNzNcj/) ### Americans’ Views About Foreign Policy [Five Things You Should Know Before Traveling To Cuba](/video/f1ZZxJ3O/) ### Five Things You Should Know Before Traveling To Cuba --- ## Transcript -[ Foreign Language } >> When planning a trip to Cuba, many Cuban Americans turn to John Cabanas. Cabanas runs a charter flight company that flies to Cuba out of Miami. Today, he received a visit from Dr. Ramon Iglesias and his wife, Yolanda. They both left Cuba decades ago and now want to return. >> Is there any way we can go legally right now? >> No. Right now, there is no legal way. There is no regulate-- no regulations would permit people who are not related to direct family, in other words, mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters. >> The current Cuba policy put in place by President Bush in 2004 allows Cuban Americans to visit immediate family Cuba once every three years and to send up to $ 300 in remittances every quarter. People like Cabanas and Iglesias see the restrictions are too tight. >> If you look at the fact that you have a mother or a father or a brother or a sister and they get sick and you've already traveled once a year, you can't go again. I mean, it's not easy that you have to see them. I mean, a lot of people traveled through third countries and I don't think we're doing good by educating people who [ unk ] galore and it's damaging. He is a business also when-- If we would have adequate regulations, we could transport them and it would-- That's-- That would-- That's harming American business. >> For Iglesias, it's more personal. >> There are people in Cuba that I would like to go see specifically my cousins. I would like-- I would like to see where I used to play. I'd like to see where I went to school. I would like to see houses that or apartments that I grew up and it's a normal human thing to wanna go bak to who you were and what you were like. >> Even though Cabanas and Iglesias are frustrated by current restrictions, both men have hoped for a future policy change based on a campaign speech President- elect Obama gave in Miami last fall. >> It's time for a new strategy. There are no better ambassadors for the freedom of the Cuban-- Cuban people than Cuban Americans. And that's why I have said that I will immediately allow unlimited family travel and remittances to the island. It's time to let Cuban Americans see their mothers and their fathers, their sisters and their brothers. >> Around 55, 000 Cuban Americans received family licenses from the U. S. Government to travel to Cuba last year. But if restrictions are lifted, Cabanas expects increased demand. >> Right now, you have approximately about 400, 500, 000 Cubans are really ambitious to travel and see families and things like that. Demand will increase may be in 35, 40 percent. >> He's planning to add flights and routes from New York and Miami. And Iglesias says he will be one of the first ones to go once he has permission. >> I would like to go back almost immediately, but I wanna hear it from Mr. Obama it is okay for you to go to Cuba. >> However, not all Cubans are planning to make a trip. >> I won't. I won't travel to Cuba until the Castro regime is gone down. >> Val Prieto writes for a blog about Cuba issues. He is among the hard liners who have embraced the Bush policy to strengthen the embargo against the regime of Fidel Castro and his brother Raul, the current president. >> As a Cuban, human being no one to tell anyone not to go see their family. As a Cuban patriot, I can tell them that every dime that they take over there ends up in the pocket of the same government that's keeping him or her separated from his or her family. >> I don't think that family relations and family travel and family remittances keep a government in place. It's not-- I mean, it's not-- that's not the substantial maintenance of the Cuban revolution of the Cuban government or whatever. >> Do we deal with dictators? They kill people. Our regular bases that oppress human rights that suppress a freedom of a speech, freedom of religion, do we want to deal with some people with governments that are like that? And I think that United States even regardless of all the criticism that it gets because of the embark has taken the moral high road with the embargo and I think history will prove-- will prove that until they are correct. >> Miami ends will have to wait and see what the Obama Administration does. For Prieto, it's too soon. For some with family in Cuba, it can't be soon enough. >> I am really encouraged that Obama has been elected president because I see somebody that is willing to talk that is a pragmatic person. I mean, why can't we talk the people, why can't we talk to Cuba. >> 50 years of damage has to be worked on and it has to be gradual. But as a big nation and is a great nation, we're strong enough to give limited to our residents and our citizens, you know, to visit their families and not fear and think that that's gonna keep a government in place or whatever, because first place change of government, Cuba is something is goin to be decided by the Cubans, not by you know families not visiting or visiting their families. >> I'm Natasha Del Toro for TIME. com Miami. ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Eyeing a Cuba Travel-Policy Shift","description":"Tour companies and Cuban-Americans in Miami are looking for a change in travel policy when President-Elect Obama takes office","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/WoC5Sktl/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2008-12-13T01:48:36.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/WoC5Sktl.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/video/WoC5Sktl/","duration":"PT5M47S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/video/WoC5Sktl/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}} ```