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A prelude to the eventual end of the US embargo on Cuba?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7997063.stm
US President Barack Obama is to lift some restrictions that will allow Cuban Americans to travel more freely to Cuba, White House sources say.
Cuban-Americans will also be allowed to send more money to relatives in Cuba.
The move, to be officially announced later on Monday, comes after Mr Obama last month signed a spending bill easing some economic sanctions on Cuba.
"Restrictions on the families will be lifted," an unnamed White House official told news agency AFP.
The Associated Press quoted an unnamed "senior administration official" as saying that President Obama had directed his administration to allow unlimited travel and money transfers by Cuban Americans to family in Cuba.
President Obama has indicated he would be open to dialogue with Cuba's leaders.
But he has said that, like previous American presidents, he will only consider a full lifting of the embargo once Cuba's communist government makes significant moves such as the holding of democratic elections.
Cuba's President Raul Castro has said he is prepared to negotiate with the new US administration, providing there are no preconditions.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7997063.stm