Miami Republicans – including Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, who chairs the House Committee on Foreign Affairs – criticized the White House move to ease travel restrictions to Cuba as a boon to the regime in Havana. But a senior administration official told reporters that President Barack Obama shares the Cuban-born lawmaker's vision for Cuba.">Miami Republicans – including Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, who chairs the House Committee on Foreign Affairs – criticized the White House move to ease travel restrictions to Cuba as a boon to the regime in Havana. But a senior administration official told reporters that President Barack Obama shares the Cuban-born lawmaker's vision for Cuba.">

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Obama, Ros really in sync, official says; they share the same vision for Cuba

Miami Republicans – including Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, who chairs the House Committee on Foreign Affairs – criticized the White House move to ease travel restrictions to Cuba as a boon to the regime in Havana. But a senior administration official told reporters that President Barack Obama shares the Cuban-born lawmaker's vision for Cuba.

"The president shares the goals that chairwoman Ros-Lehtinen and many other members share which is this desire to see the Cuban people free to determine their own future," the official said. He suggested the parties simply disagree on the best means to achieve that goal.

"This way forward, we believe, helps advance a goal that has been frustrated for far too long," he said.

Opponents of loosening restrictions have blocked Congressional efforts to open travel to Cuba to everyone. But the latest changes, the White House official said, do not require Congressional approval and will soon be published in the Federal Register. LESLEY CLARK.

Source: miamiherald.typepad.com/cuban_colada/2011/01/

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