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    19 hours ago

    No it isn’t. It’s not the fault of the fault of the US that Cuba ran out of clean water, electricity and food. They are inept, and no longer supported by the Soviet Union and Venezuela. Venezuela ran out of toilet paper once, and people blamed the US. Ridiculous

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      19 hours ago

      So can I tie someone down to a set of train tracks and absolve myself of any culpability when they eventually get run over by a train?

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        18 hours ago

        Cuba is not the most sanctioned country in the world, that position is held by Iran and Russia. Cuba only uses sanctions to justify its mistakes and its ineptitude, but with each passing year it becomes more difficult.

        Even China is getting tired of Cuba because it does not want to change its economy.

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          18 hours ago

          Cuba is not the most sanctioned country in the world

          I never said that? Not sure what the point of your comment is here.

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          The easy response is that they tied themselves to the tracks.

          No they really didn’t and you’re intentionally deflecting the point. Relationships were being normalized. True, Trump walked them back. But Biden campaigned on bringing it back and not only did he fail on it, he made them worse. And people wonder why Democrats aren’t getting as many latino voters. You’re insistence on deflecting the blame is counter-productive to the kind of discussions needed for a healthy political climate in America.

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            Cuba never lived up to its side of the deal. Free and fair elections were not held, prisoners were not released and the safe haven for terrorists was maintained. Takes two to tango. Still, their present situation is not due to an embargo. That’s. Simply their excuse.

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              18 hours ago

              Exactly, even China is getting tired of Cuba because it does not want to implement economic reform. But it spends that money on building hotels or on luxuries for the island’s political elite.

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            18 hours ago

            Biden did not remove the sanctions that Trump had put in place because they provoked the Cuban electorate living in Florida to vote Republican.

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              18 hours ago

              Can you source this please? I’m not able to find anything like that on my own.

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                18 hours ago

                Although the news is from a year ago, it is still relevant. Cubans in Miami are usually anti-Cuban regime and if they see that the government is lifting sanctions against Cuba, the first thing that comes to mind is that they are Communists or Socialists.

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                  Nowhere in either of the 2 articles you provided does it say Cuba tried to influence votes in any way. In fact, they full on say that there is no real reason that Cuba is sanctioned to begin with:

                  From the first article:

                  In short, there is no longer any legitimate rationale whatsoever for Cuba being designated a state sponsor of terrorism. Cuba stays on the list because the Biden administration does not have the political courage to remove it — even though Cuba and the United States have a Memorandum of Agreement and active dialogue on counter-terrorism cooperation!

                  The second article only mentions that upset Cuban-Americans (not the Cuban government) were upset with the Democrats and voted Republican.

                  A vocal Cuban diaspora community in the U.S. has helped push the formerly contested state of Florida firmly into Republican hands. Among Democrats, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chair Bob Menendez, himself the son of Cuban immigrants who fled prior to the revolution, has proven to be among the most powerful opponents within Biden’s own party of any easing of restrictions against Cuba.

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                    17 hours ago

                    I was talking about the Cuban electorate that participates in the elections. Not the Cuban government, which in my opinion I don’t think wants to invest in having its famous excuse removed because it would ruin it.

                    But I’ll leave you with another more recent piece of news that shows how much percentage of Cubans still support the embargo.

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