Florida Home: Swing State and Cuban Americans

florida home: The Trump administration has targeted two of the few bright spots in Cuba's otherwise beleaguered economy, tourism and foreign investment, as part of its campaign to pressure the Communist government to reform and drop support for embattled leftist Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, according to The Japan Times. Analysts say Trump appears to also be eying the 2020 presidential elections, with the swing state of Florida home to many Cuban Americans who welcome the harder line on Havana and his base applauding it as part of his broader attack on socialism. Data from the Statistics Office had already shown a 20 percent drop in arrivals in June, after Washington that same month banned cruises to Cuba and made it harder for U.S. citizens to get an exemption from the ban on travel there. ; The sustained decline reverses a boom in arrivals and therefore the broader tourism industry in recent years following the U.S.-Cuban detente under former U.S. President Barack Obama that President Donald Trump is now unraveling. The administration's measures are hurting an economy already battling a cash crunch in the wake of a steep decline in aid from leftist ally Venezuela and a drop in exports. That will spell a 8.5 percent drop from the 4.7 million reported last year. The Cuban government last month revised sharply downwards its estimate for full-year visitors arrivals to 4.3 million from an original goal of more than 5 million. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.