President Donald Trump criticized his predecessor's Cuba policy, saying it allowed the Castro regime to benefit from increased tourism.
The White House's new policy directs the Treasury Department to end a common method of visiting the communist nation by ending individual people-to-people travel, ahead of Trump's remarks.
Tourism is technically banned under the embargo, but under the Obama administration, relaxed regulations allowed Americans to visit Cuba under people-to-people travel. Trump's policy restricts this form of travel to Cuba for individuals. Americans pursuing this type of travel would have to go in groups.
Although Trump said he "cancelled" Obama's policies, a document published by the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control emphasizes that the changes announced Friday
