{"id":4112,"date":"2021-04-26T13:47:56","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T13:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/?p=4112"},"modified":"2021-04-27T06:35:05","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T06:35:05","slug":"biden-pursues-trumps-cuba-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/biden-pursues-trumps-cuba-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Pursues Trump\u2019s Cuba Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>In Cuba there are serious people who recognize the problems but are not overwhelmed by them,\u00a0writes\u00a0Vijay Prashad.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>A<\/strong>fter 20 years, the United States government \u2014 and the forces of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) \u2014 will depart from Afghanistan. They said that they came to do two things: to destroy al-Qaeda, which had launched an attack on the United States on Sept. 11, 2001, and to destroy the Taliban, which had given al-Qaeda a base.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After great loss of life and the further destruction of Afghan society, the U.S. departs \u2013 as it did from Vietnam in 1975 \u2013 in defeat: al-Qaeda has regrouped in different parts of the world and the Taliban is set to return to the capital, Kabul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The speaker of Afghanistan\u2019s parliament, Mir Rahman Rahmani,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/tolonews.com\/afghanistan-171458\">warns<\/a>&nbsp;that the country is poised to enter a new period of civil war, a repeat of the terrible civil war that ran from 1992 to 2001. The United Nations&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/unama.unmissions.org\/need-violence-end-order-stop-thousands-afghan-civilians-being-killed-and-injured-2021-un-report\">calculates<\/a>&nbsp;that in the first quarter of 2021, civilian casualties rose by 29 percent compared to last year, while the number of women among the casualties increased by 37 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is unclear if there will be further talks between the Taliban, the Afghan government of President Ashraf Ghani, the Turks, the Qataris, the United States and the United Nations. Afghanistan sits on the brink of further violence, whose impact can so aptly be described by the words of the poet Zarlasht Hafeez:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The sorrow and grief, these black evenings,<\/em><br><em>Eyes full of tears and times full of sadness,<\/em><br><em>These burnt hearts, the killing of youths,<\/em><br><em>These unfulfilled expectations and unmet hopes of brides<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSaving\u201d Afghan women, advancing the cause of human rights: these words have lost meaning after two decades. As Eduardo Galeano put it, \u201cEvery time the U.S. \u2018saves\u2019 a country, it converts it either into a madhouse or a cemetery.\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Alicia-Leal-Cuba-Un-soldado-de-America-1997.-4-copy.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"caption-attachment-62228\">Alicia Leal (Cuba),&nbsp;\u201cUn soldado de Am\u00e9rica,\u201d 1997.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The U.S. government calculates that this war, which would enter its 20th, is the longest U.S. war in the modern period (the U.S. engagement in Vietnam lasted for 14 years, from 1961 to 1975).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But this war in Afghanistan is not the longest war prosecuted by the United States government. There are two U.S. wars that continue: a war against the Democratic People\u2019s Republic of Korea or DPRK (since August 1950) and against Cuba (since September 1959). Neither of these conflicts have ended, with the U.S. continuing to execute hybrid wars against both the DPRK and Cuba.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thetricontinental.org\/dossier-36-twilight\/\">hybrid war<\/a>&nbsp;does not necessarily require the full arsenal of a military to come into force; it is a war fought through the control of information and financial flows as well as the use of economic sanctions and illicit means such as sabotage. There is no question that the longest and unfinished U.S. wars have been against Korea and Cuba.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sixty years ago, on April 17, 1961, the CIA\u2019s Brigade 2506 landed at Cuba\u2019s Playa Gir\u00f3n (\u201cBay of Pigs\u201d). The Cuban people resisted this invasion as they would six decades of hybrid war against their sovereign revolutionary processes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cuba has never threatened the United States; it never has violated the UN Charter of 1945. The United States, on the other hand, has routinely threatened the Cuban people. In October 1962, when the Soviets sent a missile cover to protect Cuba, General Maxwell Taylor, the head of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nsarchive2.gwu.edu\/NSAEBB\/NSAEBB397\/docs\/doc%2022%2011-2-62%20memo%20to%20JFK%20re%20invasion%20plans.pdf\">planned<\/a>&nbsp;for a full-scale invasion. In this now-declassified memorandum, Taylor pointed out that such a military venture might result in 18,500 casualties on the U.S. side because of the determination of the Cubans to protect their land and their political project. The plot was to reinstate the old Cuban oligarchy that had sought refuge in Miami and turn Cuba back into a gangster\u2019s paradise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After the Cuban government sent troops to assist the national liberation project in Angola in November 1975, U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nsarchive2.gwu.edu\/NSAEBB\/NSAEBB487\/docs\/03%20-%20Washington%20Special%20Actions%20Group%20Meeting,%20Cuba,%20March%2024,%201976.pdf\">told<\/a>&nbsp;his team on March 24, 1976, \u201cif we decide to use military power, it must succeed. There should be no halfway measures \u2014 we would get no award for using military power in moderation. If we decide on a blockade, it must be ruthless, rapid, and efficient.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The U.S. planned to mine Havana\u2019s harbor and bomb Cuba\u2019s cities. \u201cI think we are going to have to smash Castro,\u201d Kissinger&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nsarchive2.gwu.edu\/NSAEBB\/NSAEBB487\/docs\/01%20-%20Memorandum%20of%20Conversation,%20February%2025,%201976,%20Ford%20Library.pdf\">told<\/a>&nbsp;U.S. President Gerald Ford. Ford replied, \u201cI agree.\u201d Such is the attitude of the U.S. government, from 1961 to the present.<a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Carlos-Garaicoa-Cuba-Puzzle-la-Malenka-2009.-1.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"caption-attachment-62230\">Carlos Garaicoa (Cuba),&nbsp;\u201cPuzzle la Malenka,\u201d 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before he left office in January 2021, U.S. President Donald Trump&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/state-sponsors-of-terrorism\/\">placed<\/a>&nbsp;Cuba on the U.S. government\u2019s \u201cstate sponsors of terrorism\u201d list. Seventy-five U.S. lawmakers&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/rush.house.gov\/media-center\/press-releases\/rush-cohen-lee-moore-75-democratic-colleagues-urge-president-biden-to\">asked<\/a>&nbsp;his successor, President Joe Biden, to reverse this decision. On April 16, Biden\u2019s press secretary, Jen Psaki,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2021\/04\/16\/press-briefing-by-press-secretary-jen-psaki-april-16-2021\/\">told<\/a>&nbsp;the briefing room that \u201cA Cuba policy shift or additional steps is currently not among the president\u2019s top foreign policy priorities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Biden, in other words, has decided to passively continue Trump\u2019s policy, dictated to him by the likes of Republican Senators Marco Rubio and Rick Scott from Florida and Senator Ted Cruz from Texas (as well as Democratic Senator Robert Menendez from New Jersey). Biden has opted to persist in this cruel six-decade long policy to suffocate the Cuban people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just after the 1959 Cuban Revolution, the U.S. government made it clear that it would not tolerate a sovereign Cuba only 145 kilometers from Florida\u2019s coast. Cuba\u2019s commitment to people over profit is a standing rebuke of the hypocrisies of the United States rulers. This has been clarified once more during this pandemic, during which the infection and death rates per million are strikingly higher in the U.S. than in Cuba (recent figures&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/statistics\/1104709\/coronavirus-deaths-worldwide-per-million-inhabitants\/\">indicate<\/a>&nbsp;the U.S. has recorded 1,724 deaths per million, whereas Cuba stands at 47 deaths per million). While the U.S. locked itself into vaccine nationalism, Cuba\u2019s Henry Reeve Brigade of doctors continued with their work amongst the world\u2019s poorest people (for this, of course, they&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cubanobel.org\/\">deserve<\/a>&nbsp;the Nobel Prize for Peace).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unable to successfully invade Cuba, the U.S. has persisted with a tight blockade of the island. After the fall of the U.S.SR, which had provided Cuba with ways to circumvent the blockade, the U.S. attempted to tighten its grip on the island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">U.S. lawmakers then attacked Cuba\u2019s economy through the Cuban Democracy Act (1992) and the Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity Act (1996) \u2014 both laws with names that demean the words in them. From 1992 onwards, the UN General Assembly has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/story\/2019\/11\/1050891\">voted<\/a>&nbsp;overwhelmingly for the United States to end this blockade. A group of UN Human Rights Council Special Rapporteurs wrote a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/EN\/NewsEvents\/Pages\/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=25848&amp;LangID=E\">statement<\/a>&nbsp;calling on the U.S. to withdraw these measures, which have only made Cuba\u2019s attempt to fight the pandemic harder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Cuban government&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.granma.cu\/mundo\/2020-10-26\/ten-point-summary-to-understand-the-brutal-tightening-of-the-blockade-against-cuba\">reported<\/a>&nbsp;that between April 2019 and March 2020, Cuba lost $5 billion in potential trade due to the blockade; over the past almost six decades, it has lost the equivalent of $144 billion. Now the U.S. government has deepened the sanctions against shipping companies that bring oil to the island. The head of U.S. Southern Command, Admiral Craig Faller,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.armed-services.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/Faller_03-16-21.pdf\">described<\/a>&nbsp;Cuba\u2019s medical internationalism as a \u201cregional corrosive influence.\u201d There is cruelty in Washington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/20210421_Raul-Castro_Square-e1619034121465.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/20210421_Raul-Castro_Square-e1619034121465.jpg?w=747&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-62234\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Far from the bitterness of the U.S. government, the Cuban communists held their eighth Party Congress, where the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.granma.cu\/octavo-congreso-pcc\/2021-04-18\/un-documento-programatico-que-traza-el-rumbo-del-pais-18-04-2021-01-04-18\">discussion<\/a>&nbsp;was on how to improve the state enterprises and how to innovate to meet the aspirations of the Cuban people. Deputy Prime Minister In\u00e9s Mar\u00eda Chapman said that the party members must be active in their communities to build and defend socialism. Rafael Santiesteban Pozo, president of the National Association of Small Farmers, said that working people must produce more with what resources are available. Minister of Economy and Planning Alejandro Gil pointed to the need for greater efficiency in the state enterprise system, the expansion of self-employment, and the expansion of cooperatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These are serious people who recognize the problems but are not overwhelmed by them; they are part of a project that has fought to defend its sovereignty against enormous odds since 1959. Defeat is not in their vocabulary. Their agenda is hopeful, unlike the bilious agenda that comes from the U.S. government and the Miami-based Cuban oligarchy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At this Congress, Ra\u00fal Castro stepped down from his post. Castro, one of the original Cuban revolutionaries, had been imprisoned for his role in the Moncada uprising of 1953. Upon his release, he went to Mexico with his brother Fidel and then returned on the&nbsp;<em>Granma<\/em>&nbsp;to lead the rebellion against the U.S.-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista. After the victory of the Revolution, Castro served in the government and as a leader in the Communist Party, guiding it alongside Fidel and others through the difficult Special Period (1991-2000) and then continuing to lead it after Fidel\u2019s death in 2016. His quiet role in defending and elaborating the Cuban Revolution has been immense.<a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Jose-Rodriguez-Fuster-Cuba-Granma-2013.-2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"caption-attachment-62232\">Jos\u00e9 Rodr\u00edguez Fuster (Cuba),&nbsp;\u201cGranma,\u201d 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After the Playa Gir\u00f3n attack by the CIA, the Spanish poet Jaime Gil de Biedma wrote a poem about Cuba called \u201cDuring the Invasion\u201d (collected in&nbsp;<em>Moralidades<\/em>, 1966). The Venezuelan poet Diego Sequera translated this poem for us as we celebrate the 60<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;anniversary of the defeat of the U.S. on those beaches:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The morning newspaper is open on<\/em><br><em>the tablecloth. The sun glows in the glasses.<\/em><br><em>Lunch at the small restaurant,<\/em><br><em>a working day.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Most of us remain silent. Someone speaks with an elusive voice;<\/em><br><em>these are conversations with special sorrow<\/em><br><em>about the things that always happen and<\/em><br><em>that never end, or that end in disgrace.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>I think that at this time of day, the sun rises in Ci\u00e9naga;<\/em><br><em>nothing is yet decided, combat doesn\u2019t stop,<\/em><br><em>and I look in the news for some hope<\/em><br><em>that doesn\u2019t come from Miami.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Oh, Cuba in the distant dawn of the tropics,<\/em><br><em>when the sun is simmering, and the air is clear:<\/em><br><em>may your land sow tanks and your broken sky<\/em><br><em>be grey from the wings of airplanes.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>With you are the people of sugar cane,<\/em><br><em>the man of the streetcar, those from the restaurants,<\/em><br><em>the thousands of us that today search in the world<\/em><br><em>for a bit of hope that doesn\u2019t come from Miami.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Vijay Prashad, an&nbsp;Indian&nbsp;historian, journalist and commentator, is the executive director of<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>and the chief editor of<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Left Word Books.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Cuba there are serious people who recognize the problems but are not overwhelmed by them,\u00a0writes\u00a0Vijay Prashad.\u00a0 After 20 years, the United States government \u2014<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/biden-pursues-trumps-cuba-policy\/\"> 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2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Cuba maintains its firm lawsuit against the United States Government for the huge economic damages caused by its blockade.It is a lawsuit filed by social and mass organizations before the Provincial People's Court of Havana, which issued a sentence on the matter on May 5, 2000. Experts and witnesses presented\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;US Aggression&quot;","block_context":{"text":"US Aggression","link":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/category\/usa\/us-aggression\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/abrazos-contra-bloqueo-romerias-2019-9.jpg?fit=1200%2C753&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/abrazos-contra-bloqueo-romerias-2019-9.jpg?fit=1200%2C753&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/abrazos-contra-bloqueo-romerias-2019-9.jpg?fit=1200%2C753&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/abrazos-contra-bloqueo-romerias-2019-9.jpg?fit=1200%2C753&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/abrazos-contra-bloqueo-romerias-2019-9.jpg?fit=1200%2C753&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":4820,"url":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/statement-from-the-cuban-embassy-dublin\/","url_meta":{"origin":4112,"position":3},"title":"Statement from the Cuban Embassy, Dublin","author":"Editorial Team","date":"July 12, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"\"Cuba faces three pandemics: the economic blockade, the Covid-19 and the aggressions manufactured in the United States\".\u00a0It is not news that the Cuban people have been facing the consequences of the criminal economic blockade imposed by the United States government for more than 60 years.\u00a0Since March, like the rest of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Featured&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Featured","link":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/category\/news\/featured\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/flag-big.jpeg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/flag-big.jpeg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/flag-big.jpeg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/flag-big.jpeg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/flag-big.jpeg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":5340,"url":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/the-cia-repeats-its-history-against-cuba\/","url_meta":{"origin":4112,"position":4},"title":"The CIA repeats its history against Cuba.","author":"Editorial Team","date":"October 15, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Subversion against Cuba By Arthur Gonz\u00e1lez. Despite so many failures suffered in 62 years, the CIA and the United States government insist on overthrowing socialism in Cuba and for that they repeat old plans, as if the Cubans were stupid, forgetful and inexperienced. It is true that there is a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;US Subversion&quot;","block_context":{"text":"US Subversion","link":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/category\/usa\/us-subversion\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/subverssion.jpeg?fit=960%2C465&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/subverssion.jpeg?fit=960%2C465&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/subverssion.jpeg?fit=960%2C465&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/subverssion.jpeg?fit=960%2C465&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":3273,"url":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/cuba-condemns-u-s-operations-in-havanas-san-isidro\/","url_meta":{"origin":4112,"position":5},"title":"Cuba Condemns U.S. Operations in Havana&#8217;s San Isidro.","author":"Editorial Team","date":"November 29, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"The U.S. embassy's\u00a0Charge d'Affaires has direct links with the so-called \"San Isidro Movement\" group. 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