It's time for the U.S. to reconsider it policy toward Cuba. More migrants from that Caribbean nation are turning up at the border than in past years due to...
Marcos Marzo, second left, talks with his friends who came to say goodbye upon receiving the news that he obtained a permit to travel to the United States, in Havana, Cuba, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023. A close relative told Marzo on Jan. 21 that he had applied online to sponsor his trip to Florida as required by the new parole program for Cuban migrants set up by the Biden administration. The next day the sponsorship had been confirmed and the day after that it was approved.
The couple fled the country in 2014. “I don’t see myself ever going back unless there is another form of government, such as a democracy,” she said.She supports the longstanding U.S. embargo on trade with Cuba and believes sending remittances to relatives is counterproductive because the regime confiscates too much of the money. Any economic support to the country would only prop up an authoritarian government that denies its citizens basic human rights, she said.
Later that night she asked her mother which was true. Her mother told her not to ever repeat what she heard for fear of reprisals not only from police, but also from neighborhood watch committees. That was 1993, and it was Morin’s first eye-opening experience in Cuba. But the Cuban government’s reaction was swift, with more than 700 people arrested. Morin says a good friend was sentenced to 20 years in prison even though he protested peacefully.
Soon after President Donald Trump took office in 2017, however, the relationship between the two countries began to refreeze. Trump restored many of the sanctions and pulled out most of the U.S. Embassy staff in Havana after they experienced mysterious neurological impairments.
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