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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 ...
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 ...
The United States has blamed Cuba's inability to provide basic services like electricity for the exodus, while the Cuban government attributes the mass departures to the United States embargo against Cuba and its policy of granting benefits to Cuban migrants, even those arriving illegally. [2]
Every year the United Nations holds a vote asking countries to choose if the United States is justified in its economic embargo against Cuba and whether it should be lifted. 2016 was the first year that the United States abstained from the vote, rather than voting no, "since 1992 the US and Israel have constantly voted against the resolution ...
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 ...
On 12 January 2021, then-U.S. President Donald Trump added Cuba to the State Sponsors of Terrorism list, implementing a new series of economic sanctions on the country. [7] The government of Cuba had hoped that Joe Biden would remove Cuba from the list. However, Biden has entirely avoided the issue and, according to Cuban governmental sources ...
Inflation has risen sharply, and it is now at 30%. The economic situation has led to once-unimaginable public shows of discontent, as well as to the biggest emigrations in Cuba’s history. Almost ...