{"id":228889,"date":"2020-10-12T14:10:33","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T18:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=228889"},"modified":"2020-10-12T14:10:33","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T18:10:33","slug":"cuba-and-the-2020-u-s-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba-usa\/cuba-and-the-2020-u-s-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuba and the 2020 U.S. elections"},"content":{"rendered":"

The main alternative in the 2020 presidential elections, with respect to Cuba, is summarized in the probability of unlocking the asymmetric conflict with candidate Biden and with more uncertainty in a second term with Trump. Biden can start a virtuous cycle, in which the limited changes he envisions acquire momentum and generate in themselves new liberalizing dynamics in the United States and Cuba, with a feedback for both. Trump is a walking question mark, who\u2015as <\/span>John Bolton\u2019s memoirs<\/span><\/a> show\u2015does not offer a predictable policy toward the Western Hemisphere, particularly toward Venezuela.<\/span><\/p>\n

If Biden wins<\/b><\/p>\n

Based on U.S. national interests and values, if Biden were to become president, he should restore and deepen Obama\u2019s policy at the end of his term. With four years to implement them, he must dismantle as soon as possible the <\/span>agitprop<\/span><\/a> machinery in favor of the existing blockade\/embargo in Miami, which has only served to stigmatize the Democratic position. If there is a liberal and anti-embargo president, who believes that the isolation policy is counterproductive to the promotion of human rights in Cuba, all posts for appointment on Radio\/TV Mart\u00ed and USAID funds should go to groups with that position.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, it is symptomatic that Biden has not emphasized the issue and has sought to win Cuban votes in Florida by appealing to other issues on the progressive agenda (jobs and health). The strategy towards Cuba came out in Miami during the Democratic primary because of the nuanced statements of Senator Bernie Sanders. The Vermont senator, from the Social Democratic wing, <\/span>contrasted<\/span><\/a> totalitarian defects in the Cuban political system with its favorable performance in health and education. Biden did not hesitate to criticize him, based on the total demonization of the Cuban government\u2019s management that prevails in the political discourse of the main parties, ignoring that Sanders\u2019 same position had been stated before by Obama, Carter and even Bill Clinton.<\/span><\/p>\n

Se\u00f1or Biden, por favor h\u00e1blenos a nosotros: los cubanoamericanos.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n