HAVANA - Prince Charles and his wife Camilla landed in Havana on Sunday for the first official trip by the British royal family to Communist-run Cuba even as Britain’s top ally the United States seeks
to isolate the island nation.
The royal visit, in line with a broader normalisation in relations between the West and Cuba, comes three years after one by former US President Barack Obama then billed as the start of a new chapter for ties between the old Cold War foes “It’s always good for Cuba to strengthen its relations with important international actors but all the more so when the United States has a president responding to the interests of extreme right-wing people who want to hurt Cuba,” said one Havana resident, Arian Rubio, 26, a historian.
British trade with Cuba was less than $100 million last year while only a handful of well-known British companies have investments there through subsidiaries, for example, Imperial Brands Plc, British-American Tobacco Plc and Unilever.
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