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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/46136230

April 18, 2026
The delegation told Cuba’s leadership that it had only a narrow window of time to make the economic and political changes demanded by the Trump administration.

[Imperialist vultures circling around Cuba - drive them out!]

The U.S. delegation last week proposed bringing Starlink satellite internet to the island and allowing free connectivity. It also urged the Cuban regime to make economic changes to attract foreign capital, grow the private sector and transition to a market-based economy.

These economic changes, the State Department official said, would also need to include ways to compensate U.S. citizens and corporations that had assets and properties confiscated in the 1960s.

Cuba would also need to release political prisoners, the official added, and allow greater political freedom.

  • Keeponstalin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    2 hours ago

    Calling out the unjustifiable policies of Biden on Cuba is ‘throwing a tantrum?’ Grow up, I’ll call out good and bad policies from any president. I don’t care about your dogmatic support, you can make excuses all you want. Doesn’t change the harm of the blockade and sanctions.

    Ahead of the UN vote, the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs has released its annual report outlining the material effects of the blockade in numbers. According to the report, the cost of 25 days of the blockade are the funds necessary to meet the requirements of the country’s National List of Essential Medicines for one year. Damages as a result of the blockade are USD 421 million a month, more than USD 13.8 million a day, and more than USD 575,683 per hour.

    Trump then obviously comes in, imposes 243 sanctions, puts Cuba on the State Sponsors of Terrorism list, and takes this very extreme position towards Cuba. Many people voted for Biden expecting that he would reverse this, that he would honor the legacy of his previous Democratic president. But reality has shown that Biden, like every other US president since 1959, has a zero sum mentality of the Cuban revolution, that it must be overthrown by all means. The US has seen in Cuba’s difficult moments the opportunity to further tighten the noose on Cuba.

    Obviously, that hasn’t worked to the extent that the US would hope, because despite the noose being tightened on Cuba, the Cuban people haven’t given up on their independence, they haven’t given up their sovereignty, they haven’t given up their political project and their democratic process that they’ve designed and they’ve made a choice to build.

    https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/10/23/as-cubans-face-blackouts-us-based-activists-organize-material-solidarity/

    • CaliforniaSober@lemmy.caEnglish
      12·
      2 hours ago

      You don’t call out anything other than the continuation of lame policy. While completely ignoring Biden’s role during the Obama admin, and ignoring all context of the time of the Biden admin.

      It sounds like a tantrum given the total lack of historical justification, combined with your desperation to make a villain out of the wrong guy.

      You cite a UN vote that aligns with a century of UN votes and US policy. Policy I disagree with but I’d have to be fucking stupid to claim it’s all Biden’s fault. Thats a simpletons take.

      It sucks but you are woefully shy of making Biden the boogieman given current events.

      You sound and probably are ignorantly reacting to your first knee jerk.

      • Keeponstalin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        1 hour ago

        When did I claim it was ‘all Biden’s fault?’

        Quit making shit up and projecting, this is sad

        • CaliforniaSober@lemmy.caEnglish
          12·
          1 hour ago

          You have only mentioned Biden’s fault. You have not mentioned Trump or any others fault. You have spent a majority of your statements on Biden.

          It’s not weird to say that you are implying a certain persons fault.

          It’s plainly obvious to say you’ve completely missed other players fault.

          You aren’t even mentioning other things. The best defense you’d have would be to talk about anyone other than Biden BUT YOU HAVENT.

          • Keeponstalin@lemmy.worldEnglish
            21·
            1 hour ago

            I literally said I blame every president since the Spanish-American war. Why would Biden’s continuation of Trump’s policies of Cuba be a problem for me if I didn’t also oppose Trump’s policies? You’re making no sense. Obama’s policy was a significant improvement over all other administrations but still falls significantly short. Because the Cuban people have continued to be under our collective punishment policies. If I oppose not only the policies of Biden, Trump 1, all previous presidents since we started exploiting Cuba (pro-revolution), why the fuck would you think I support Trump’s 2 policies? Please, use a crumb of critical thinking. Go ahead and search my history for Trump as see what you find.

            • CaliforniaSober@lemmy.caEnglish
              11·
              57 minutes ago

              Again, for the deaf folks in the back…

              If you have to back farther than Hoover to justify your current beliefs you are too out of touch to weigh in on current shit.

              You clearly have shown you just aren’t up to the challenge.

              Please by all means stay home and keep focusing on the Spanish American war. All while ignoring any current US approach, decisions, admin or otherwise that went contrary.

              You clearly don’t get it. But since you so get it maybe you just stay home.