The Cuban regime, headed by President Díaz-Canel, stated that it was willing to “initiate a respectful dialogue on an equal footing with the US government, based on the Charter of the United Nations, without interference in internal affairs and with full respect for independence and sovereignty”
The Administration of US President Joe Biden announced this Monday that it will restore commercial flights to Cuba, which now only reached Havana, and will suspend the limit of 1,000 dollars per quarter on remittances.
“The Administration’s policy toward Cuba continues to focus first and foremost on supporting the Cuban people, including their human rights and their political and economic well-being,” State Department spokesman Ned Price said.
As part of the measures, a family reunification program that had been suspended for years will also be reinstated.
In this way, the White House reverses some of the harshest measures imposed by its predecessor, former President Donald Trump.
The State Department spokesman explained that these actions will provide the people of Cuba “additional tools to lead a life free from the oppression of the Cuban government and seek greater economic opportunities.”
“Wrong message”
For his part, the chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations in the US Senate, Bob Menéndez, rejected the changes announced by the Biden Administration in the policy towards Cuba, stating that there is a risk of “sending the wrong message” to the dictatorship of the Miguel Díaz-Canel regime.
The Democratic senator from New Jersey indicated that he is “very disturbed” that the Biden administration will authorize group trips to Cuba through visits that have always been equivalent to regular tourism.
“To be clear, those who still think that increased travel to Cuba will foster democracy on the island are brazenly denying the reality of the situation,” he said.
He also explained that for decades, the world has traveled to Cuba and nothing has changed. “For years, the United States itself absurdly reduced travel restrictions on the grounds that millions of US dollars would help achieve freedom in Cuba, and nothing has changed,” he said.
On the other hand, he was pleased that the administration maintains “the State Department’s Cuba Restricted List. As we have seen in Putin’s Russia, the Diaz-Canel regime is also using its power to perpetuate the rise of a new class of oligarchs with ties to the Cuban military, and the United States must take significant steps to push for demilitarization. of the Cuban economy.
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“A limited step”
On the other hand, the Cuban regime described the decisions of the Joe Biden administration as “a limited step in the right direction.”
In a statement released by the Cuban Foreign Ministry, it highlighted that “the announcements do not modify the blockade at all, nor the main measures of economic siege taken by Trump, such as the lists of entities that are subject to additional coercive measures, nor does it eliminate the prohibitions against the travel of Americans.
He also stressed that “it does not reverse the arbitrary and fraudulent inclusion of Cuba on the State Department’s list of countries that are allegedly sponsors of terrorism, one of the main causes of the difficulties that Cuba encounters for its commercial and financial transactions in many parts of the world”.
Likewise, the Cuban regime affirmed that “by taking these limited steps, the State Department uses openly hostile language, accompanied by traditional slanders and new fallacies that have become fashionable in recent months, demonstrating that the objectives of the policy have not changed. of the United States against Cuba, nor its main tools.”
Lastly, the Cuban regime, headed by President Díaz-Canel, stated that it was willing to “initiate a respectful dialogue on an equal footing with the US government, based on the Charter of the United Nations, without interference in the affairs of the United States.” and with full respect for independence and sovereignty”.
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