{"id":200161,"date":"2019-06-06T19:04:15","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T23:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=200161"},"modified":"2019-06-06T20:09:56","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T00:09:56","slug":"cuban-entrepreneurs-suffer-consequences-of-donald-trumps-travel-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba-usa\/cuban-entrepreneurs-suffer-consequences-of-donald-trumps-travel-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuban entrepreneurs suffer consequences of Donald Trump&#8217;s travel ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Every morning Julio C\u00e9sar parks a shiny Desoto Deluxe from 1948 in front of the exit of the cruise terminal. There\u2019s rarely a day when two or three groups of American tourists don\u2019t get in his red convertible to tour the city at a price of between 30 and 40 dollars per hour. Until today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;You gave me bad news. When cruise ships don\u2019t enter here, there are no customers,&#8221; he says to EFE, after learning that this Tuesday the U.S. Department of State has banned travel to Cuba on these recreational vessels, in addition to restricting cultural visits by Americans.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_200163\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-200163\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/emprendedores-habana-vieja-efe-6-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-200163 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/emprendedores-habana-vieja-efe-6-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"689\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/emprendedores-habana-vieja-efe-6-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/emprendedores-habana-vieja-efe-6-1-300x258.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/emprendedores-habana-vieja-efe-6-1-768x661.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/emprendedores-habana-vieja-efe-6-1-750x646.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-200163\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Julio C\u00e9sar, driver of a classic car, answers EFE\u2019s questions, on June 4, 2019, in Havana, Cuba. Photo: Ernesto Mastrascusa \/ EFE.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/cuba-ee-uu\/eeuu-prohibe-los-viajes-en-crucero-a-cuba\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ban on travel to Cuba on cruise ships<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> imposed this Tuesday by the U.S. government condemns the up to now thriving private businesses in the historical center of Havana, from restaurants and souvenir shops to emblematic classic cars, to a bleak future.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cruise companies such as Carnival and Norwegian brought to Cuba 340,000 Americans in 2018, double the previous year, which placed the U.S. as the second issuing market to the island (with a total of 638,000), only behind Canada, according to data from the Ministry of Tourism.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_200165\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-200165\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/emprendedores-habana-vieja-efe-3-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-200165 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/emprendedores-habana-vieja-efe-3-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"486\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/emprendedores-habana-vieja-efe-3-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/emprendedores-habana-vieja-efe-3-1-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/emprendedores-habana-vieja-efe-3-1-768x467.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/emprendedores-habana-vieja-efe-3-1-750x456.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-200165\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brendie, a tourist, answers EFE\u2019s questions, on June 4, 2019, in Havana. Photo: Ernesto Mastrascusa \/ EFE.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since the first cruise ships arrived in 2016 as a result of the &#8220;thaw&#8221; promoted by Ra\u00fal Castro and Barack Obama, in the once depressed neighborhood of Old Havana the businesses of the new Cuban entrepreneurs or &#8220;self-employed&#8221; have multiplied, a thriving group that has revitalized the Cuban economy, apart from the inoperative state sector.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These range from ambitious restaurants with giant screens, cocktail bars, artists&#8217; studios or traditional clothing stores to the humble stand of Yolaina, the hairdresser, an expert in filling the heads of tourists with curls and braids in the shade of the Basilica of San Francisco de As\u00eds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;I want to die. How can cruise ships not come? They are the only income we have, because there is almost no tourism here anymore,&#8221; Yolaina regrets, after affirming that approximately half of her clients come from the giant ships that dock a few hundred meters from her business.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_200166\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-200166\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/emprendedores-habana-vieja-efe-4-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-200166\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/emprendedores-habana-vieja-efe-4-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"551\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/emprendedores-habana-vieja-efe-4-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/emprendedores-habana-vieja-efe-4-1-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/emprendedores-habana-vieja-efe-4-1-768x529.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/emprendedores-habana-vieja-efe-4-1-750x517.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-200166\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yolaine Casanova, whose business is combing tourists, awaits the arrival of clients, on June 4, 2019, in Havana. Photo: Ernesto Mastrascusa \/ EFE.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yoasi Garcia, who runs a souvenir shop in the area, shares a similar concern.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;We are surviving because of the cruises. We believe that if the cruises stop coming business will also stop here,&#8221; he complains, although he\u2019s still optimistic: &#8220;We Cubans are incredible, we\u2019re adapted to live in any stage, climate and time. We\u2019re strong.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The two cruise ships moored on Tuesday in the port of Havana could be the last from the United States, as the ban takes effect in 24 hours. Their passengers, however, scattered through the streets of the city without knowing that they are probably the last to enjoy this type of vacation, at least for a long time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;I was stunned. We were already worried before we came because we thought it could happen, but we didn\u2019t know. At least we still have the rest of the day to support the people here,&#8221; retired Scarlett Skinner told EFE, as she tries the traditional Cuban dish &#8220;ropa vieja&#8221; (shredded beef with a tomato sauce) at a local restaurant.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_200167\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-200167\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/emprendedores-habana-vieja-efe-2-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-200167\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/emprendedores-habana-vieja-efe-2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"603\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/emprendedores-habana-vieja-efe-2-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/emprendedores-habana-vieja-efe-2-1-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/emprendedores-habana-vieja-efe-2-1-768x579.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/emprendedores-habana-vieja-efe-2-1-750x565.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-200167\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tourists in Old Havana on June 4, 2019. Photo: Ernesto Mastrascusa \/ EFE.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Trump administration also announced the ban starting this Wednesday of the people-to-people educational travel, which made it possible for thousands of Americans to visit the island after the thaw started in 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Americans are banned from coming to the island as tourists, but until now they could travel if they met any of the 12 existing categories: government visits, journalistic or research activities, educational, religious and medical projects.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These other modalities will not be affected and normal commercial flights between both countries will continue to operate normally, resumed in 2016 after more than half a century.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_200168\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-200168\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/emprendedores-habana-vieja-efe-5-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-200168\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/emprendedores-habana-vieja-efe-5-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"544\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/emprendedores-habana-vieja-efe-5-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/emprendedores-habana-vieja-efe-5-1-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/emprendedores-habana-vieja-efe-5-1-768x522.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/emprendedores-habana-vieja-efe-5-1-750x510.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-200168\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Indira Dubau, cashier at a coffee shop, on June 4, 2019, in Havana. Photo: Ernesto Mastrascusa \/ EFE.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the case of the cruise ban, the U.S. government argues that the objective is to end the &#8220;veiled tourism&#8221; considering that it serves to &#8220;fill the pockets of the Cuban military&#8221; and ultimately support the regime of Nicol\u00e1s Maduro in Venezuela.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This hypothesis does not worry too much Linda Harper, another retired American who got off the cruise ship today to spend the afternoon in Havana: &#8220;my money goes for mojitos, I&#8217;m not sure where it goes next,&#8221; she says ironically, and picks up her glass to make a toast with the Cuban cocktail par excellence.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_200169\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-200169\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/emprendedores-habana-vieja-efe-1-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-200169\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/emprendedores-habana-vieja-efe-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"613\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/emprendedores-habana-vieja-efe-1-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/emprendedores-habana-vieja-efe-1-1-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/emprendedores-habana-vieja-efe-1-1-768x588.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/emprendedores-habana-vieja-efe-1-1-750x575.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-200169\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Abel Amador, a street painter in Old Havana. Photo: Ernesto Mastrascusa \/ EFE.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every morning Julio C\u00e9sar parks a shiny Desoto Deluxe from 1948 in front of the exit of the cruise terminal. There\u2019s rarely a day when two or three groups of American tourists don\u2019t get in his red convertible to tour the city at a price of between 30 and 40 dollars per hour. Until today. 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