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Judi Lynn

(162,379 posts)
Tue Oct 3, 2023, 05:08 AM Oct 2023

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.

. . .

"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."

. . .

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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https://www.newsweek.com/four-ways-cuba-says-biden-can-help-its-people-without-losing-votes-1830747

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The Four Ways Cuba Says Biden Can Help Its People Without Losing Votes (Original Post) Judi Lynn Oct 2023 OP
I hope Biden does take action. sinkingfeeling Oct 2023 #1
Harming the nation as a whole IS THE GOAL. Marcus IM Oct 2023 #2
Absolutely. So few U.S. Americans even realize sometimes Cuban emigrants who come here Judi Lynn Oct 2023 #3
The dark imaginations of the anti-Cuba crowd are just that. Dark imaginations. Marcus IM Oct 2023 #4
 

Marcus IM

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2. Harming the nation as a whole IS THE GOAL.
Tue Oct 3, 2023, 06:27 PM
Oct 2023

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!

Judi Lynn

(162,379 posts)
3. Absolutely. So few U.S. Americans even realize sometimes Cuban emigrants who come here
Wed Oct 4, 2023, 01:14 AM
Oct 2023

Last edited Wed Oct 4, 2023, 02:57 AM - Edit history (1)

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.

 

Marcus IM

(3,001 posts)
4. The dark imaginations of the anti-Cuba crowd are just that. Dark imaginations.
Wed Oct 4, 2023, 11:52 AM
Oct 2023

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.







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