government to arrange trips. they expanded, the administration expanded the reasons why you could go to cuba. before, journalist ix, religious, cultural reasons. now just about any reason. you will see more and more americans go. if they can afford the price. same time, we asked, will americans buy a cuban cigar? at a store in the united states? no. you will have off to bring cigars out of cuba if you travel there up to $100 worth of tobacco and rum. so there are still sort of quirky, goofy, restrictions still in place. americans can travel about anywhere around the world, andersen. book trips on their own. they will not be able to do it. 100% freely to cuba. have to go through travel agents authorized by the federal governments. a step forward. but it is not a lifting of, of embar go and travel ban. they will be able to use credit card from some banks. a big step. jim, thank you very much. next, patrick, otman with reaction in cuban capital. in havana.
generous, and talented. it pains me to see them treated so unjustly as a consequence of two governments mutually belligerent policies. to be clear some policies will not be changing. and many people fled the castro regime are no people suffered under it do not want them to change. they think this is a bad idea. they re speaking up and promising president obama will pay steep political price for making this deal. talk about that shortly. first, very latest from washington and havana. cnn the network with a full time operation. patrick is there. jim acaucosta at the white hous. why did the deal come together now? this is not a lifting of the embargo. cold war between cuba and the u.s. starting to thaw. the result of talks going on with the communist nation.