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But ramping up pressure on Cuba again after more than 60 years of US economic sanctions was unlikely to force the government to adopt political reforms said Peter Kornbluh, the co-author of ...
"The blockade against Cuba is an economic, financial and trade war which qualifies as genocide," said Rodriguez, charging the U.S. policies were deliberately aimed at promoting suffering among the ...
The economy of Cuba is a planned economy dominated by state-run enterprises. In the 1990s, the ruling Communist Party of Cuba encouraged the formation of worker co-operatives and self-employment. In the late 2010s, private property and free-market rights along with foreign direct investment were granted by the 2018 Cuban constitution.
Cuba's booming private businesses braced for impact on Wednesday as the island's communist-run government implemented a raft of new laws aimed at more tightly regulating the private sector amid a ...
In late April 2022, the first high-level talks between Cuba and the United States since 2018 focused primarily on reestablishing regular migration channels. The Cuban government requested the US honor the agreement to issue 20,000 immigrant visas annually, while the American government asked Havana to accept Cuban deportees who arrived illegally.
In what has been a tumultuous few days for the U.S. Agency for International Development, employees working abroad are now worried they may soon be evacuated out of countries they're stationed.
After the opening of the island to world trade in 1818, trade agreements began to replace Spanish commercial connections. In 1820 Thomas Jefferson thought Cuba is "the most interesting addition which could ever be made to our system of States" and told Secretary of War John C. Calhoun that the United States "ought, at the first possible opportunity, to take Cuba."
Last week, Cuba's government had called Biden's announcement a step in the "right direction," but accused the U.S. of continued "economic warfare" against the island, since the Cold War-era U.S ...