{"id":5441,"date":"2021-11-05T21:50:23","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T21:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/?p=5441"},"modified":"2021-11-05T22:32:08","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T22:32:08","slug":"us-looking-at-ways-to-keep-remittances-from-cuban-government-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/us-looking-at-ways-to-keep-remittances-from-cuban-government-hands\/","title":{"rendered":"US Looking at Ways to Keep Remittances From Cuban Government Hands"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"747\" height=\"420\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cuba-Cars.webp?resize=747%2C420&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cuba-Cars.webp?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cuba-Cars.webp?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cuba-Cars.webp?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cuba-Cars.webp?resize=1536%2C864&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cuba-Cars.webp?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 747px) 100vw, 747px\" \/><figcaption>\u00a9 REUTERS \/ Enrique De La Osa<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading_80b870-6f, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading_80b870-6f[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading_80b870-6f\"]{font-style:normal;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading_80b870-6f mark.kt-highlight, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading_80b870-6f[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading_80b870-6f\"] mark.kt-highlight{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone;box-decoration-break:clone;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading_80b870-6f img.kb-inline-image, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading_80b870-6f[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading_80b870-6f\"] img.kb-inline-image{width:150px;vertical-align:baseline;}<\/style>\n<h2 class=\"kt-adv-heading_80b870-6f wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading_80b870-6f\">Continuing a trend begun in the summer after protests in Cuba, the US government is continuing to look for ways to keep resources such as remittances sent by family members from abroad from getting into the hands of the Cuban government.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to a US official who spoke with reporters on Friday, the White House rejected a proposal by the State Department on remittances, sending it back to the working group for further work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">US President Joe Biden ordered a review of US policy following&nbsp;protests in July&nbsp;that the US hailed as an eruption of anti-government malcontent and which found deep resonance in the right-wing Cuban exile communities in southern Florida. The protests were generally not anti-government in nature, but demanded fixes to brownouts and rising commodity prices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-large is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Biden&#8217;s predecessor, Donald Trump, undid a thaw in US-Cuban relations by the previous president, Barack Obama, and totally banned remittances from being sent to family members in the socialist island nation in an effort to ramp up pressure and force regime change.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While Biden ran on a campaign of undoing Trump&#8217;s many changes to US policy, his nine months in office have only seen&nbsp;new sanctions added&nbsp;against Cuba.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">US policy toward Cuba is similar to that taken against Hamas in Gaza: portraying the group as unsupported by the masses of people and having goals antithetical to theirs. Following the 11-day war against Israel in Gaza in May, the US pledged support for rebuilding the besieged city &#8211; but similarly pledged to&nbsp;deny a single cent of aid&nbsp;to Hamas. Like Hamas, the US State Department lists Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism &#8211; a retaliatory move made after the Cuban government refused to extradite members of the Colombian National Liberation Army (ELN) who traveled to the island in good faith in 2017 for historic&nbsp;peace negotiations&nbsp;that ended 53 years of armed struggle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since the Cuban revolution in 1959 threw out the US-backed dictator, Fulgencio Batista, and ushered in a socialist government willing to lend support to anti-colonial movements across Latin America and Africa, the US has sought to overthrow that government. A blockade banning most goods and financial transactions has caused severe shortages on the island, which despite the economic pains has built one of the world&#8217;s premier biomedical industries that has produced&nbsp;five COVID-19 vaccines&nbsp;alongside numerous other advancements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-large is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The United Nations General Assembly votes every year to condemn the US blockade. At the most recent vote, in June, 184 countries&nbsp;voted to condemn&nbsp;and two voted against &#8211; the US and Israel. Three others, all US client states &#8211; Colombia, Ukraine, and Brazil &#8211; abstained from the vote.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Inside the US, antiwar activists have organised solidarity campaigns to get urgently-needed goods to the Cuban people, including shipping millions of syringes to allow COVID-19 vaccines to be administered to the population. The most recent shipment, which arrived on Friday, included 9 tons of food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Just arrived in cuba with 18,000 pounds of food donated by people in US. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UnblockCuba?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UnblockCuba<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IFSMIAK5d3\">pic.twitter.com\/IFSMIAK5d3<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Medea Benjamin (@medeabenjamin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/medeabenjamin\/status\/1456644729932759053?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 5, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the wake of new sanctions in July, activists also organised a&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.com\/20210723\/let-cuba-live-activists-take-out-full-page-nyt-ad-asking-biden-to-drop-243-trump-era-sanctions-1083450906.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Let Cuba Live&#8221; campaign<\/a>&nbsp;aimed at raising awareness of the destructive effects of the 243 new sanctions Trump added against Cuba during his four years in office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">source: Sputnik<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing a trend begun in the summer after protests in Cuba, the US government is continuing to look for ways to keep resources such as<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/us-looking-at-ways-to-keep-remittances-from-cuban-government-hands\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5442,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3046,"url":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/u-s-government-sanctions-against-fincimex-hurt-the-cuban-people\/","url_meta":{"origin":5441,"position":0},"title":"U.S. government sanctions against Fincimex hurt the Cuban people","author":"Editorial Team","date":"October 30, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Family remittances to Cuba have been politicized by the anti-Cuban right wing in the United States. 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