According to the New York Post, a senior administration official has revealed that President Barack Obama had directed his administration to permit unlimited travel and money transfers by Cuban Americans to family in Cuba. The official announcement is scheduled to come later Monday at the White House, and the official spoke on condition of anonymity as not to update the President's own announcement.

The source says that the changes are intended to help create new space for the Cuban people in their quest to gain political freedom and a democratic government, and owuld make them less dependent on the Castro family regime.

Obama will also permit gift parcells to be sent to Cuba, and will allow the issuing of licenses to increases communications among and to the Cuban people.

Unfortunately, travel restrictions remain in place for the rest of the non-Cuban-American population of the United States.