US decision “doesn’t change the blockade”: Cuba

The Cuban State Department confirmed that the measures announced by the US government to allow remittances and travel are positive, “but on a very limited scale”.

The Joe Biden administration announced this Monday Policy easing in Cuba In the areas of visas, regular migration, flights to the provinces, remittances and transactions with the non-governmental sector.

The Cuban Foreign Ministry said it was possible to identify some of President Biden’s promises to facilitate the 2020 election campaign. The Donald Trump Administration’s “Inhumane Decisions”.Which “tightened the blockade to an unprecedented level and the maximum pressure policy”.

The statement from the US government is a limited step in the right direction. The decision does not change the blockade, the fraudulent inclusion in the list of countries that sponsor terrorism or most of Trump’s maximum coercive measures that still apply to the Cuban people.

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— Bruno Rodriguez P (@BrunoRguezP) May 16, 2022

However, the island’s government said the statements do not in any way alter the blockade, nor the basic economic blockade measures taken by Trump, such as listing entities subject to additional enforcement measures, nor violate the ban on Americans. Travel through.

However, the government acknowledges that this “Limited step in the right directionResponse to the condemnation of the Cuban people and government.”

According to the State Department, the blockade was intensified in 2019 “it required extreme, opportunistic use of the context of the Covid 19 pandemic”, which had “devastating” consequences.

In taking these limited steps, the State Department is openly using hostile language, accompanied by traditional insults and new lies that have come into fashion in recent months, showing that the goals of US policy against Cuba have not changed, nor have its main tools. †

Source: La Neta Neta

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