{"id":296279,"date":"2024-02-11T13:59:31","date_gmt":"2024-02-11T18:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=296279"},"modified":"2024-02-11T13:59:31","modified_gmt":"2024-02-11T18:59:31","slug":"open-letter-to-president-biden-asking-him-to-change-his-cuba-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba-usa\/open-letter-to-president-biden-asking-him-to-change-his-cuba-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Open letter to President Biden asking him to change his Cuba policy"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the 2024 election campaign in full swing, an alliance of U.S. and Cuban-American groups and activists published an open letter to <\/span>President Joe Biden<\/b><\/a> encouraging him to take a turn in his Cuba policy.<\/span><\/p>\n

The letter speaks directly of the advantages of a rapprochement with the island by offering \u201cthe best chances of achieving some of the margins that you need to win, by receiving votes from one of the Latin American communities with the largest voter turnout.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

United Voice for Change: A Call to Revisit U.S.-Cuba Policy<\/i><\/b><\/a> is the title of the appeal sponsored by Acere.<\/span><\/p>\n

The group is the Alliance for Cuba Engagement and Respect \u2015 Acere for its acronym in English \u2015 a name that plays with the phonetics of <\/span>asere<\/span><\/i>, a Cubanism that belongs to the colloquial register and a word that for Cubans means friend, brother or partner.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAfter several announcements, we are still waiting for measures that allow trade and investment with the island\u2019s growing private sector. We also hope to achieve unlimited freedom to travel to Cuba, as is the case with other countries that are really dangerous,\u201d the petitioners state.<\/span><\/p>\n

Signed by more than fifty organizations and more than two hundred individuals based in the United States, the document resolutely calls for removing the island from the list of nations that help or sponsor terrorism, according to the State Department.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is an \u201cunfounded\u201d and \u201cdisconcerting\u201d measure that \u201chinders access to the basic goods of daily life, financial operations and digital platforms. It also greatly undermines our national efforts to combat terrorism around the world,\u201d the signatories of the letter said.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2015, former President Barack Obama removed Cuba from the list on which it had appeared since 1982. This was a critical step in the thaw between both countries, which led to the historic reestablishment of diplomatic relations, broken by Washington in January 1961.<\/span><\/p>\n

Obama\u2019s rapprochement was reversed by the administration of Donald Trump, who re-entered the island on the list of terrorists before leaving the White House at the beginning of 2021. His successor, Democrat Biden, <\/span>has maintained that status<\/b><\/a> despite contrary opinions from inside and outside the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n

ONU: lista de EEUU sobre pa\u00edses patrocinadores del terrorismo socava derechos humanos<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n