{"id":253123,"date":"2022-05-20T18:46:58","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T22:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=253123"},"modified":"2022-05-22T07:59:50","modified_gmt":"2022-05-22T11:59:50","slug":"cuba-united-states-the-beginning-of-a-new-thaw-or-more-of-the-same","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba-usa\/cuba-united-states-the-beginning-of-a-new-thaw-or-more-of-the-same\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuba-United States: the beginning of a new thaw or more of the same?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The <\/span>State Department\u2019s announcement on May 16<\/span><\/a> under the heading \u201cMeasures by the Biden administration to support the Cuban people\u201d has favorably surprised most observers who closely follow U.S. policy towards Cuba. However, when the context and background is analyzed and the four packages of regulations are examined in more detail, they turn out to be neither so unpredictable nor much less so significant.<\/span><\/p>\n

More details, less details, essentially they constitute a first step, quite restrictive, aimed at fulfilling what the current president had promised to do during the bellicose 2020 electoral campaign in which he had faced who he considered his number one political enemy, Donald Trump The latter, let us remember, had attacked wickedly and viciously, directed equally against the Obama-Biden administration and against the Cuban people and government, to \u201ccancel\u201d (according to his own words) that transcendental joint diplomatic achievement that was the beginning, in December 2014, of a process of normalization of relations between the two asymmetric neighbors.<\/span><\/p>\n

Havana after announcement of Biden administration\u2019s changes in Cuba policy<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n