{"id":3041,"date":"2020-10-29T18:10:26","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T18:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/?p=3041"},"modified":"2020-10-29T18:10:29","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T18:10:29","slug":"elimination-of-remittances-a-blow-from-trump-to-the-cuban-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/elimination-of-remittances-a-blow-from-trump-to-the-cuban-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Elimination of remittances, a blow from Trump to the Cuban family"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A country must live on what it produces, not on remittances, under this message promoted on social networks, Washington seeks to sell the idea of \u200b\u200beliminating remittances to Cuba.\u00a0In this way, the Trump administration announced on October 23 new measures that would affect the sending of money to the Island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This measure cannot be seen in isolation from the unprecedented escalation, during this year, of the tightening of the economic, financial and commercial blockade that the United States has exercised against Cuba\u00a0for almost\u00a0six decades;\u00a0thus pretending that Cubans blame their government for the deprivations derived from it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the measure is unpopular with a significant number of Cuban Americans, the White House intends to justify its dirty policies of economic suffocation by promoting the idea of \u200b\u200bnot contributing to the development of the Cuban\u00a0state\u00a0.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It should be noted then that\u00a0remittances are<\/strong> voluntary\u00a0unilateral transactions\u00a0that respond to family ties between countries, not<\/strong> donations or official aid<\/strong>\u00a0.\u00a0In this sense, Cuban families benefiting from remittances will have to drastically reduce their ability to consume goods and services, save or invest their money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cuban Americans are the only group of immigrants to which the US\u00a0government\u00a0and a powerful sector of their own nationals, have limited the ability to help their families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Successive US governments have restricted the right of every migrant to help their families, with the exception of Barack Obama, who, as a consequence of his policy of expanding the private sector in Cuba, favored the
arrival of money to the island population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although it is difficult to determine the volume of remittances sent, due to the multiplicity of channels used,\u00a0the United<\/strong> States\u00a0Department of State\u00a0estimated that, between 2012 and 2016, this figure was between 1.4 and 2 billion<\/strong> dollars annually.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taking the higher figure as a reference, Cuba is not among the first countries to receive remittances, however the northern nation has not applied any restrictive measure in this regard against countries such as Mexico, China,
India, the Philippines or Vietnam, which lead the statistics .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It could be affirmed then that the obsession of the current occupant of the White House on this issue can only be understood in the context of his pact with the extreme right of Cuban origin, to win them as followers in the
presidential elections on November 3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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