Cuba's president blasts 'interventionist' U.S. amid protests over shortages
Cuba's president blasts 'interventionist' U.S. amid protests over shortages
Asked in an exclusive NBC News interview about the recent protests, President Miguel Díaz-Canel lashed out at the U.S. embargo and said they were made to look like "serious events."
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“we are going to continue building our revolution, despite the tightening of the blockade”
I haven’t been following Cuba at all, can someone more knowledge expand on this? Has the US tightened the sanctions on Cuba? I thought we loosened them during the Obama years?
Yes, Trump tightened the sanctions. Look for the changes between 2019-2020 here: https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/cuba/2022-02-02/cuba-embargoed-us-trade-sanctions-turn-sixty
And Biden even added a few more! That’s fucked up. Thanks for the link!
as of last november: https://press.un.org/en/2023/ga12552.doc.htm
nothing is going to happen though, Cuba is firmly within America's sphere of influence.
Thanks for the link, I don’t see anything in there about the US “tightening” anything, though?
Guess it’s just a case of using hyperbolic language.