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I see that Trump has lifted the Russian oil sanctions on Cuba!
Can anyone make any sense of that?
NYT quote: “The private sector in Cuba is quite small,” Mr. Rubio told reporters this week at a summit of Caribbean nations. “It exists, but it’s small, and it certainly, in and of itself, does not have the capacity to deal with the scale and scope of the challenges they’re facing. But if the Cuban economy were a functioning economy, it would have a much larger private sector.”
Cuba’s government has long blamed a U.S. trade embargo and sanctions for crippling the country, but the Trump administration says the Communist regime, which controls nearly every sector of the economy, is to blame for running Cuba into the ground.
The Trump administration wants to encourage the Cuban government to undertake changes to allow private enterprise to flourish, said a senior U.S. official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive diplomatic matters.
Though the initial shipments of oil to Cuba are modest, experts say the Trump administration is sending a message to Cuba’s government that digging out from the country’s economic free fall will require cooperation with the United States.
“The strategy here is to show the Cubans and the world that the only lifeline that Cuba has left is the United States,” said Ricardo Herrero, executive director of the Cuba Study Group, a nonpartisan policy and advocacy group in Washington. “That doesn’t mean choke them off. That means leave it clear that they have become a de facto dependency of the United States.’’
Perhaps Cuba is viewed as state 51, whist leaving Greenland alone?
