Cuba blasts Trump's decision to revamp Obama-era deal

Miami. From left are Rep Mario Diaz-Balart R-Fla. Florida Gov. Rock Scott Cary Roque and Vice President Mike Pence
Cuba rejects new US policy, calls it 'archaic'
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25 June, 2017

And he is not closing down the American embassy Obama opened in Havana - a pillar of the deal Trump claimed was so disgusting for the US.

As a part of the deal forged with Cuban President Raul Castro, Obama eased economic and trade restrictions that dated back to the US embargo on Cuba that began in the 1960s.

-President Trump, speaking in MiamiWhat's new about Trump's recently announced Cuba policy?

1959: Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro leads a guerrilla army into Havana overthrowing the Batista regime.

United States President Donald Trump on Friday reversed parts of his predecessor Barack Obama's diplomatic re-engagement with Cuba, tightening travel and trade rules with the island nation, reported The Guardian.

Members of Cuba's small but vibrant independent civil society say they fear the new policy will do more harm than good. Last week, the US Senate voted overwhelmingly to back new sanctions on Russian Federation. "When Cubans take concrete steps, we will be ready, prepared and able to return to the table to negotiate that agreement, which will be much better", he said.

While Castro acknowledged that changes in Cuba were necessary, pointing to the ongoing process of modernising and developing the island's economic and socialist model, he insisted that Cuba would decide its own fate independent of foreign influence.

1962: Castro agrees to allow the Soviet Union to deploy nuclear missiles on the island bringing the United States and the USSR to the brink of nuclear war.

Moran backs legislation to restore trade with Cuba in addition to supporting Flake's legislation.

The Cuban government on Friday evening responded by rejecting what it called Trump's "hostile rhetoric".

The statement added that Trump was "poorly advised" to favour the political interests of an "extremist minority" of Cuban-Americans living in Florida, who, because of "petty motivations, will not give up on their ambition of punishing Cuba and its people".

"I would urge the Administration and Congress to focus on constructive policy with Cuba that would benefit Americans, especially Arkansas-based agriculture, by lifting the credit restrictions on agriculture", Hutchinson said.

"We will not lift sanctions on the Cuban regime until all political prisoners are free, freedoms of assembly and expression are respected, all political parties are legalized and free and internationally supervised elections are scheduled", Trump demanded.

Hundreds packed the rickety Manuel Artime Theater - from recently arrived dissidents fleeing Raul Castro's rule, to older veterans of failed Central Intelligence Agency covert operations and the new generation of Cuban-American US lawmakers. Trump has labelled the initial deal "completely one-sided".

However, Marriott International 's planned operations in Cuba may depend on the Trump administration's regulations, the hotel company said in a statement.

"Further U.S. disengagement opens up opportunities for countries like Iran, Russia, North Korea and China to gain influence on an island 90 miles off our coast", Crawford said.


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