The resurgence of the embargo on Cuba, and its extraterritorial application, is the axis of Trump's policy to render the island and build on it a democracy aligned with the interests of the United States, a fundamental objective of a commercial, economic and financial punishment that began in October 1960 in response to the revolutionary expropriations of American properties. The political opening is a desideratum that will hardly come with the sanctions inspired by the Enemy Trade Act of 1917 (TWEA), which authorized the White House to ban trade with the enemy, or enemy allies , in time of war or emergency. The succession of harassment and entrenchment have been barren, beyond multiplying emigration and penalties. The levers of Cuba to cope with the trance are well known: more private initiative and more foreign investment, weighed down by internal locks and fear of US reprisals.
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The concept of democracy and freedom collides in the Greater Antilles with the anti-imperialism instilled from the school, ignoring that nationalism, sovereignty and democracy are compatible. Waiting for Washington to return to the thaw rehearsed by Obama, and Havana assumes that the powers division does not mean the loss of national independence, the country faces further harassment if Trump is re-elected. But political pluralism will not be the result of a persecution that prohibits the use of the dollar and access to the North American market, and forces the use of intermediaries and struggles with the increase in freight, insurance and financing due to the fear of suppliers and lenders to the breach of contracts
The situation worsens and the nightmare of food, medicine and fuel shortages returns. From April 2018 to March 2019, the embargo caused $ 4.3 billion in losses of companies, banks and embassies, forced to triangulations, if not prestidigitation, in their financial operations. Noting that the punishment takes effect, the White House hardened it by expanding the relationship of entities subject to sanctions; He restricted trips and stays and used the Helms Burton so that US courts can judge lawsuits against companies or persons commercially related to nationalized properties after 1959.
The purpose is the suffocation of a nation that imparts Marxist culture depends on capitalist markets and deals with debt payments agreed in 2015 with the Paris Club. It will hardly come out of the stalemate without converting an economy weighed down by unproductiveness, wage poverty and egalitarianism as impossible as unlikely is the fulfillment of the official development plans planned until 2030. The European Union and international development aid agencies may do something to circumvent the imperatives of Washington and enable the transformations that Cuba needs to solve crises that are chronic because chronic is the failure of the single party and nationalization.
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