Tag: Cuba

Just like millions of U.S. citizens, Cubans are counting the days until the Trump administration becomes history and hoping the next administration will offer some relief.

The Cuban approach stands in marked contrast to the modus operandi of the global superpower and Cuba’s primary antagonist, the United States.

Or how this became a Gitmo world.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin claimed the ban is in retaliation for Cuba “providing a communist foothold in the region and propping up U.S. adversaries in places like Venezuela and Nicaragua.”

The Cuban people, and the rights of Americans, should not be held hostage to brazen partisan politics.

The two nations to vote against it were the U.S. and its ally, Israel, while Ukraine and Moldova simply did not vote.

National security adviser John Bolton declared Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua to be part of a “troika of tyranny” and a “triangle of terror.”

The Russians are emphatically back where the withering of American influence will encourage whatever mischief they mean to create not only in Cuba itself, but in the U.S. and throughout Latin America.

Even Trump supporters agree we can learn something from the country’s universal, low-cost health care system. It’s that good.

It’s unlikely the administration has either the will or the means to roll back the full suite of Obama-era reforms.