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President Biden Gets Tough With Cuba, Slapping Sanctions On Regime Officials

[QUOTE]Biden will apply sanctions on Cuban officials and bring increased internet access to the island, bucking the progressive voices in his own party who called for an end to the embargo. “This is huge,” said a top Miami political operative.

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by Anonymousreply 20July 23, 2021 3:48 PM

For someone supposed to be "sleepy" President Biden seems to be pretty much on the ball.

by Anonymousreply 1July 22, 2021 4:36 PM

No, it won’t turn Florida blue, R1. But it’s the right thing to do regardless.

by Anonymousreply 2July 22, 2021 4:44 PM

Literal violence.

by Anonymousreply 3July 22, 2021 4:48 PM

R2 Agreed. This might make already Democrat voting Cubans feel better about voting for Biden. But, it probably isn’t enough to bring Cubans who didn’t vote for Biden the first time into his camp. Especially with the squad being so pro Cuba.

by Anonymousreply 4July 22, 2021 4:48 PM

Good! Go, Joe!

by Anonymousreply 5July 22, 2021 4:52 PM

[QUOTE] But, it probably isn’t enough to bring Cubans who didn’t vote for Biden the first time into his camp. Especially with the squad being so pro Cuba.

Yeah, I don’t know who I hate more: The Squad themselves, or the people who believe the GOP propaganda that these four screeching congresswomen are somehow leading the Democratic Party.

Joe Biden runs the Democrats, not AO friggin C. That’s why we nominated him and sent him to the White House.

by Anonymousreply 6July 22, 2021 4:53 PM

Joe Biden: This is Just the Beginning

[QUOTE] Cuba has slammed a new round of sanctions issued by President Joe Biden in response to a crackdown on protesters on the Communist-led island, which is already the subject of a decades-long U.S. trade embargo.

[QUOTE]But Biden has warned that these new sanctions are "just the beginning," as his administration targeted Havana in the wake of rare anti-government demonstrations earlier this month and a subsequent crackdown by Cuban officials accusing Washington of stirring unrest.

[QUOTE]Biden released a statement Thursday in which he said he "unequivocally" condemned "the mass detentions and sham trials that are unjustly sentencing to prison those who dared to speak out in an effort to intimidate and threaten the Cuban people into silence."

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by Anonymousreply 7July 22, 2021 9:25 PM

The newest "president" of Cuba does whatever Raul tells him too so the people of Cuba are STILL trapped under Castro regime. I am in total support of what Biden is doing towards Cuba's GOVERNMENT. The people of that country have suffered enough.

by Anonymousreply 8July 22, 2021 9:31 PM

Couldn't we just invade them, annex them and make them the 51st state?

by Anonymousreply 9July 22, 2021 9:53 PM

R6 That might make the Rethugs willing to admit DC; one Republican State, One Democrat one.

by Anonymousreply 10July 22, 2021 10:05 PM

[QUOTE] Couldn't we just invade them, annex them and make them the 51st state?

Do the people, including these protesters, want to be invaded by American troops?

by Anonymousreply 11July 22, 2021 10:21 PM

Freeing Cuba of that totalitarian government would be a huge achievement. How anyone can still support the Cuban government in any way is just like those communists who still supported Stalin after they learned the truth about him.

No amount of failed Marxist regimes will cure the left of their love for Marxism and their hate of capitalism no matter what history or facts show.

by Anonymousreply 12July 22, 2021 10:31 PM

R12 STFU. No mainstream Leftist here supports “Marxism” you idiot. Not even most of the Squad. Funny how Cubans here support the authoritarian GQP. I guess you can take the authoritarians out of Cuba but can’t take the authoritarianism out of Cubans.

by Anonymousreply 13July 22, 2021 10:39 PM

If Castro and his puppet were “removed” with a couple bullets to the head, how do we know that whatever replaced them would be better? Is there some sort of capitalist opposition waiting in the wings? What if we made shit worse?

by Anonymousreply 14July 22, 2021 10:40 PM

We deal with China all the time and they’re Communist why can’t we have had dealings with Cuba? Oh because Cubans are fucking insane, entitled assholes. If we had been dealing with Cuba like we do China, they’d likely be much better off and closer to actually being free or would have already been free.

by Anonymousreply 15July 22, 2021 10:43 PM

[quote] Is there some sort of capitalist opposition waiting in the wings?

No, but the old Cubans here in Miami all expect to climb on a plane, move back into the houses they left and dig up Abuela's silverware in the backyard.

by Anonymousreply 16July 22, 2021 11:12 PM

Can Biden install Marisleysis Gonzalez as the new president of Cuba?

That would be awesome.

by Anonymousreply 17July 22, 2021 11:18 PM

America doesn’t do dictators anymore.

by Anonymousreply 18July 23, 2021 12:26 AM

Marisleysis!!!!!

What a drama queen. What a soap opera that was.

How did people feel about the mean federales with their guns barging into a home and ripping that kid out of the closet?

Actually I remember cheering it.

by Anonymousreply 19July 23, 2021 5:36 AM

Most of America probably cheered it, R19.

by Anonymousreply 20July 23, 2021 3:48 PM
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