The Four Ways Cuba Says Biden Can Help Its People Without Losing Votes
BY TOM O'CONNOR ON 10/3/23 AT 5:00 AM EDT
President Joe Biden can immediately take at least four steps to improve the lives of everyday Cubans without having to rely on Congress or face significant backlash at the ballot, a senior diplomat from the Caribbean island nation told Newsweek.
As the United Nations General Assembly high-level week concluded in New York, Cuban Vice Foreign Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío Domínguez issued an appeal to the White House on the sidelines of an international gathering that has regularly condemned Washington's long-running sanctions against Havana with rare unanimity.
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"In fact, it has very good relations with the rest of the world," he added. "It only suffers hostility from the United States, and it's a policy that is rejected by the international community."
At home, de Cossío said that that the U.S. policy "hurts the livelihood of every Cuban, of the nation as a whole."
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Now, just weeks after Biden boosted ties with Vietnam, another Communist-led country that harbors a far bloodier history with the U.S., de Cossío offered four actions the president could take on his own, arguing that "doesn't need the permission of Congress to remove some of the most damaging measures put in place by his predecessor."
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It is openly stated in the language in the various US laws and Acts that created the US extraterritorial sanctions on Cuba.
The vast majority of the Cuban people IN CUBA prefer their socialist system of gov't.
So, the US sanctions were SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED to undermine and cripple the Cuban economy - in futile hopes that Cubans in Cuba would wrongly blame their own gov't.
Viva Cuba!
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even return to Cuba, after deciding they prefer their old routines and lives after all. They are unaware that some "exiles" have come and gone to and from Cuba for decades. They never have realized the reason ordinary US Americans haven't been legally allowed to go check things out in Cuba for themselves is because the US Government bans it for regular citizens.
They never bother to think about it, let alone try to find out why. They'd rather live with the lie, even though it's a whopper, and makes them look stupid!
Buildings in Cuba US photographers always forget to photograph, for some reason. . . .
Matanzas, Cuba
Matanzas, Cuba
Matching car!
ETC.
Thanks for posting the photos.
Americans need to be exposed to this more often so they can visualize the real nation their gov't is harming. 