The Biden administration imposed fresh sanctions against Cuba on Friday, targeting the country’s police force and its leadership. The measures are the second round of sanctions since anti-government protests were held in Cuba earlier in July.
Considering Cuba is under a decades-old US trade embargo, sanctions against the countries police force will likely have virtually no impact. When announcing the sanctions, President Biden was asked if there will be more to come. “There will be more, unless there’s some drastic change in Cuba, which I don’t anticipate,” he said. Biden said the US is “expanding our assistance to political prisoners and dissidents” in Cuba.
The Biden administration is also exploring options for ways to provide people in Cuba with internet access. It’s not clear how this plan would work, as the Cuban government would be against the plan since the US has a history of using social media to stir unrest in the country.
One thing Biden has not done is ease the trade embargo on Cuba or restrictions on remittances to the country, which would make it easier for Cuban Americans to send money to their families. Western Union shut down its money-sending service to Cuba last year due to sanctions reimposed by the Trump administration.
The administration set up a “working group” on remittances, and Biden said that he “directed the State Department and the Treasury Department to provide me, within one month, recommendations of how to maximize the flow of remittances to the Cuban people, without the Cuban military taking their cut.”
The administration set up a “working group” on remittances, and Biden said that he “directed the State Department and the Treasury Department to provide me, within one month, recommendations of how to maximize the flow of remittances to the Cuban people, without the Cuban military taking their cut.”
Of course. Because the Cuban military won’t find ways to circumvent any possible “recommendations”. Just a way to continue with the status quo while pretending to do something. Never mind that any part of remittances is better than no remittances and no remittances is the only outcome.
Could he make an announcement that the military’s cut of American taxpayer $$$ will be reduced?
Where is this recent hatred of Cuba coming from – they are just a little country trying to make a go of it? I think that a few old Cubans in Miami are dying off and their families are worried that their cigar boxes full of old 100 Peso Notes won’t be getting redeeemed without renewed effort to “stir it up.”
Biden and Blinken are full of crap.
Of all the foreign policy decisions of the Biden administration, immiserating Cuba is surely most disgusting. Sleepy Joe has really turned into a zombie. He’s no longer human. No one in his entourage is telling him how depraved this policy is, which shows he is not alone.
Biden’s patina is a tad less grotesque than Trump, in a few ways, if one looks carefully..
…or is blind.
Worse.
The newest and biggest Banana REPUBLIC, the USA, trying to compete with another Banana Republic, Cuba !!
Biden and Blinken are full of crap.
Who was it , Pope John Paul or somebody who got on pretty good with Castro and the Cuban people seemed to love that. So now Joe Biden being a good Catholic should have a little meeting with the current Pope and see if he approves of current US foreign policy, not just Cuba but the whole idea of putting pressure on nations all over the globe, threatening, bombings, asasinations, sanctions, etc . Who do we think we are? We’ve turned into a bunch of killers.
The US needs to mind its own business for once and worry about their OWN political prisoners and dissidents.
Did he beat his scrawny chest when he said that, like one of those “back of the shed” tough guys?
Is it reasonable to guarantee that 100% of all money sent to Cuba forever be untaxable, how would that work, would they be stamped