The United States has announced fresh economic sanctions on Cuba’s president and some of his immediate family, alongside members of the Castro family, in Washington’s latest ramping up of pressure on its communist-led neighbour.
Among those targeted were the son and a grandson of former president Raúl Castro, who no longer holds an official position but remains a key figure on decisions about the future of the island.
President Miguel Diaz-Canel, his wife and stepson were also hit by the latest Treasury department sanctions issued on Thursday, as was the ministry of the revolutionary armed forces and several other entities.
We’ve been on economically torturing them for decades, and then justify it by saying “They’re terrible, look how they make their people live!”
They’re doing the best they can with the most powerful nation in history standing on their chest. Why would they look at us as anything but a brutal enemy? Since they live right next door, maybe we should play nice, and perhaps persuade them to leave the Soviet sphere of influence and join ours.
If they did that, the Cuban people would be subject to the same living conditions as every other caribbean island.
Cuba has a strong advantage over other islands, starting with education levels and a rich history
if certain nature refuge havnt been destroyed they can start tourism on those areas immediately.
Why do you think they are able to achieve and maintain that level of social spending while every other government that invests in anything other than resource extraction gets overthrown?
Like Denmark?
Do you think a south American country would be allowed to implement the same policies as Denmark? We just kidnapped the last president who tried to do democratic socialism.
All that terrible tourism money rolling in, horrible.