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."
“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?
“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?
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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.
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