Sounds like Obama’s going to take some steps in the right direction with respect to the US’s policy on Cuba:
At today’s daily White House briefing, White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs will announce that the administration will lift travel, remittance, mail and business restrictions relating to the Communist nation of Cuba.
The changes will allow unlimited visits to family members on the island as well as unlimited remittances — the cash recent immigrants to the U.S. send to relatives back home. President Bush imposed stricter restrictions on both in 2004.
Well past time for this.
Update: Steve Clemons gets at what almost immediately bothered me about this policy change. First, opening up travel only to Cuban-Americans is a necessary, but insufficient step, towards a better Cuba. Second, creating a right (in this case, to travel to Cuba) based on ethnic origin (especially when it is not aimed at correcting a situation related to it)? A really poor idea.