1 00:00:02,033 --> 00:00:04,666 JUDY WOODRUFF: As we reported earlier, President Trump took steps to roll back some parts of 2 00:00:04,666 --> 00:00:09,666 the Obama administration's opening to Cuba, which began two-and-a-half years ago. 3 00:00:11,100 --> 00:00:15,100 John Yang reports now on what's out and what stays in effect. 4 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:20,100 JOHN YANG: President Trump made the announcement in Miami's Little Havana before an enthusiastic 5 00:00:21,700 --> 00:00:23,666 crowd in a packed auditorium. 6 00:00:23,666 --> 00:00:27,433 DONALD TRUMP, President of the United States: Effective immediately, I am canceling the 7 00:00:27,433 --> 00:00:32,433 last administration's completely one-sided deal with Cuba. 8 00:00:33,966 --> 00:00:35,966 (CHEERING AND APPLAUSE) 9 00:00:35,966 --> 00:00:39,133 JOHN YANG: While the president's action falls short of canceling, he said it fulfills a 10 00:00:39,133 --> 00:00:43,766 campaign promise to undo President Obama's re-engagement with Cuba. 11 00:00:43,766 --> 00:00:46,366 BARACK OBAMA, Former President of the United States: Today, the United States of America 12 00:00:46,366 --> 00:00:49,266 is changing its relationship with the people of Cuba. 13 00:00:49,266 --> 00:00:54,266 JOHN YANG: In December 2014, Mr. Obama restored diplomatic ties with the island nation, after 14 00:00:55,166 --> 00:00:58,433 more than 50 years of hostility. 15 00:00:58,433 --> 00:01:03,433 In March 2016, he became the first U.S. president to visit Cuba in nearly a century. 16 00:01:05,366 --> 00:01:09,233 President Trump says his focus is halting the flow of U.S. dollars to the communist 17 00:01:09,233 --> 00:01:11,300 government. 18 00:01:11,300 --> 00:01:15,233 DONALD TRUMP: Our policy will seek a much better deal for the Cuban people and for the 19 00:01:16,100 --> 00:01:18,200 United States of America. 20 00:01:18,200 --> 00:01:22,000 We do not want U.S. dollars to prop up a military monopoly that exploits and abuses the citizens 21 00:01:24,233 --> 00:01:26,300 of Cuba. 22 00:01:26,300 --> 00:01:29,933 JOHN YANG: The new policy bans transactions with enterprises, including hotels and other 23 00:01:29,933 --> 00:01:34,300 tourist-related businesses, ultimately owned by the Cuban military. 24 00:01:34,300 --> 00:01:39,300 Mr. Trump is also reinstating a rule that restricts individual travel, and requires 25 00:01:41,300 --> 00:01:44,433 most visits to Cuba to be in group tours organized by American companies. 26 00:01:46,500 --> 00:01:49,766 But the policy continues direct commercial flights between the two countries. 27 00:01:51,833 --> 00:01:55,366 The administration will also maintain the U.S. Embassy in Havana, but still with no 28 00:01:55,366 --> 00:01:56,600 ambassador. 29 00:01:56,600 --> 00:01:58,866 In Havana today, Cubans reacted. 30 00:01:58,866 --> 00:02:02,800 MAN (through translator): Trump's words simply seem a bit ambiguous. 31 00:02:02,800 --> 00:02:06,866 If the governments want the best for both the Cuban and American people, they have to 32 00:02:06,866 --> 00:02:09,933 look out for the common things that exist between the two. 33 00:02:09,933 --> 00:02:14,733 WOMAN (through translator): If definitely feels like a huge setback in the relationship 34 00:02:14,733 --> 00:02:16,800 between Cuba and the United States. 35 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:20,966 We will see what happens, but, right now, I think it's like going back to the Cold War. 36 00:02:20,966 --> 00:02:25,966 JOHN YANG: None of the changes will take effect until the U.S. Treasury and Commerce Departments 37 00:02:27,133 --> 00:02:30,833 issue new regulations, which could take months. 38 00:02:30,833 --> 00:02:35,300 For more on the revised policy, and how it's being understood in Cuba, we turn to Alan 39 00:02:35,300 --> 00:02:38,900 Gomez of USA Today, who joins us from Havana. 40 00:02:38,900 --> 00:02:41,400 Alan, thanks for being with us. 41 00:02:41,400 --> 00:02:45,533 We heard in the tape piece a little smattering of some reaction from the streets of Havana, 42 00:02:46,666 --> 00:02:48,666 but I know you have been out reporting today. 43 00:02:48,666 --> 00:02:52,000 What are you hearing from average Cubans in Havana about this change? 44 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:57,000 ALAN GOMEZ, USA Today: I mean, it's been a level of confusion, of sadness, of disgust, 45 00:02:57,800 --> 00:02:58,800 of anger. 46 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:00,933 You know, just imagine. 47 00:03:00,933 --> 00:03:04,600 These people have lived here for decades without any interaction with the United States, with 48 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:07,766 the U.S. just treating them as an enemy and closing off to them. 49 00:03:07,766 --> 00:03:12,033 Then, two-and-a-half years ago, they get this opening, and they talk about this period, 50 00:03:12,033 --> 00:03:16,866 already in the past tense, as this glorious period where they were able to have more Americans 51 00:03:16,866 --> 00:03:19,866 down here, interact with them more, and visit the U.S. more. 52 00:03:19,866 --> 00:03:24,566 And now Trump has taken it not all away, but has really cut that back significantly. 53 00:03:24,566 --> 00:03:29,566 So, yes, there's a lot of anger here right now and a lot of confusion over why it's being 54 00:03:30,033 --> 00:03:32,033 done. 55 00:03:32,033 --> 00:03:34,900 JOHN YANG: How have they talked about how their lives have changed, what difference 56 00:03:34,900 --> 00:03:36,966 this past two years has been to them? 57 00:03:36,966 --> 00:03:41,766 ALAN GOMEZ: Well, understand, Cuba, the state-run economy, you only get a certain salary from 58 00:03:41,766 --> 00:03:43,133 the government. 59 00:03:43,133 --> 00:03:44,933 You only get certain benefits from the government. 60 00:03:44,933 --> 00:03:48,866 So what they rely on so heavily across the board is tourism. 61 00:03:48,866 --> 00:03:53,866 And what it's done is infused a whole lot of Americans down here over these past two-and-a-half 62 00:03:54,366 --> 00:03:56,366 years. 63 00:03:56,366 --> 00:03:59,666 So you think about everybody from private restaurant owners, to private taxies, to tour 64 00:03:59,666 --> 00:04:03,500 guides, all these people that interact with Americans, they're all the ones that are getting 65 00:04:03,500 --> 00:04:05,500 that benefit directly. 66 00:04:05,500 --> 00:04:09,433 President Trump talked a lot today about how all of the money that's been going down over 67 00:04:09,433 --> 00:04:13,733 these last couple of years is going straight to the Cuban government. 68 00:04:13,733 --> 00:04:16,833 But I can tell you, from being down here quite a bit over the last couple of years and talking 69 00:04:16,833 --> 00:04:20,433 to folks today, that they are saying that, no, they get a lot of it. 70 00:04:20,433 --> 00:04:24,866 Yes, of course some of it goes to the government, but they're upset that, to punish the Cuban 71 00:04:24,866 --> 00:04:27,233 government, they're the ones that are getting hurt as well. 72 00:04:27,233 --> 00:04:28,700 JOHN YANG: How will they get hurt? 73 00:04:28,700 --> 00:04:32,733 How will life change for them under these changed rules? 74 00:04:32,733 --> 00:04:35,533 ALAN GOMEZ: Well, it's a combination of things. 75 00:04:35,533 --> 00:04:38,900 It's, quite simply, fewer American tourists are going to be able to make the trip because 76 00:04:38,900 --> 00:04:43,100 of the way that the Trump administration is going to change the visa system. 77 00:04:43,100 --> 00:04:46,866 It is going to be a lot harder for American tourists now to get to the U.S. 78 00:04:46,866 --> 00:04:51,533 Right now, if you're an American and want to come down to Cuba, hop online, you can 79 00:04:51,533 --> 00:04:55,066 figure out your trip, and you can pretty much get your visa at the airport counter on your 80 00:04:55,066 --> 00:04:57,133 way down here. 81 00:04:57,133 --> 00:04:59,900 Now they are going to go back to the old way, where you have to apply beforehand to the 82 00:04:59,900 --> 00:05:02,366 federal government, get approval to go down. 83 00:05:02,366 --> 00:05:07,266 And so the people down here in Cuba are just expecting that that torrent of American visitors 84 00:05:08,266 --> 00:05:09,533 is going to dry up. 85 00:05:09,533 --> 00:05:11,533 And then there's another aspect. 86 00:05:11,533 --> 00:05:13,566 There are just all these private business owners that have had a lot of interaction 87 00:05:13,566 --> 00:05:17,466 in the last few years, going to the United States, working with U.S. businesspeople, 88 00:05:17,466 --> 00:05:20,800 getting training in the United States and bringing those lessons back to Cuba. 89 00:05:20,800 --> 00:05:23,133 And so they're worried that that is going to be limited as well. 90 00:05:23,133 --> 00:05:26,300 JOHN YANG: Alan, in the less than a minute we have left, I want to ask you about a development 91 00:05:26,300 --> 00:05:28,933 on your regular beat, which is immigration. 92 00:05:28,933 --> 00:05:33,833 The Trump administration announced last night that they were going to keep the program that 93 00:05:33,833 --> 00:05:38,833 protects from deportation undocumented immigrants who came as children. 94 00:05:40,766 --> 00:05:44,200 The president during the campaign said he was going do away with that, he was going 95 00:05:44,200 --> 00:05:46,933 to change that Obama policy. 96 00:05:46,933 --> 00:05:49,500 What do you make of this, deciding to keep this? 97 00:05:49,500 --> 00:05:53,133 ALAN GOMEZ: What the president did was pretty much eliminate a program that would have protected 98 00:05:53,133 --> 00:05:55,300 their parents from deportation. 99 00:05:55,300 --> 00:05:59,466 That program, there's no immediate effect of that, because all -- that program had been 100 00:05:59,466 --> 00:06:01,766 on hold in the courts for some time now. 101 00:06:01,766 --> 00:06:06,466 But what it does is, it means that those parents are never going to get any sort of legal status 102 00:06:06,466 --> 00:06:08,533 under this president. 103 00:06:08,533 --> 00:06:11,633 And, more than that, it means that those children that have been protected from deportation 104 00:06:11,633 --> 00:06:15,366 under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, now they are worried that they are 105 00:06:15,366 --> 00:06:17,900 going to have that taken away from them. 106 00:06:17,900 --> 00:06:20,233 JOHN YANG: Although, in the president's announcement, or the administration announcement last night, 107 00:06:20,233 --> 00:06:25,233 they specifically said that that program would remain, would remain in place. 108 00:06:26,766 --> 00:06:28,833 Alan Gomez of USA Today from Havana, Cuba, thanks for joining us. 109 00:06:28,833 --> 00:06:29,400 ALAN GOMEZ: Thank you.