“We stand with the Cuban people and their clarion call for freedom and relief,” the president said
The historic protests were prompted by nationwide food and vaccine shortages in the communist country. Demonstrators filled the streets chanting “freedom” and “yes, we can” while calling for an end to the nation’s decades-old dictatorship.began immediately after the protests began and came from both Florida’s Republican Senator Marco Rubio and Florida Democratic Congresswoman Val Demings, who is running to unseat Rubio.
Cuba continues to deal with the decades-old U.S. trade embargo, as well as even stiffer sanctions imposed by the Trump administration. The sanctions, a bipartisan effort, are aimed at destabilizing an authoritarian regime long led by Fidel Castro. The sanctions have been in place, in some form or another, for 60 years. They have failed in their stated goal of destabilizing the regime but succeeded in making life worse for the 11 million people who live under that regime.
And, in his final week in office, Trump put Cuba back on the State Department’s list of state sponsors of terrorism. But aside from Monday’s statement, the Biden administration has done little to reverse the long-standing embargo or the sanctions currently in place or Trump’s actions. Just last month, the U.S. opposed a United Nations resolution to condemn the six-decade embargo on Cuba — a move that, according to the New York Times, was seen as a litmus test of Biden’s willingness to reverse the actions from the previous administration.
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