{"id":747,"date":"2020-01-10T22:02:38","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T22:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cubausrelations.com\/Blog\/?p=747"},"modified":"2020-01-10T22:02:38","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T22:02:38","slug":"trump-cuba-trudeau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cubausrelations.com\/Blog\/trump-cuba-trudeau\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump CUBA Trudeau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">More of the Weekly \u201cTurning of the Screws to Suffocate the Cuban Economy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">That is how Cuban President Miguel D\u00edaz-Canel put it last December.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Today, yet another. Join Yves Engler, Don Foreman and Arnold August in Ottawa <a dir=\"ltr\" href=\"x-apple-data-detectors:\/\/2\">on February 27.<\/a>\u00a0Among other points, I will call on the Trudeau government to speak out against Trump for his weekly attacks last year against Cuba, and now again in January. Join us! If a group or organization wants to cosponsor, contact Larry in Ottawa: Everyone knows him. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Here is the information and summary from the US Financial Post, including the exact quote from D\u00edaz-Canel:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">WASHINGTON\/HAVANA Financial Post \u2014 The United States curbing public charter flights to Cuba in a further effort to squeeze the Cuban government\u2019s income, the U.S. State Department said on Friday, prompting an outcry from officials in Havana.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">The Trump administration, in its latest effort to roll back warmer U.S-Cuba ties established by the Obama administration, said it would only let some charters into Havana\u2019s Jose Marti International Airport but did not say how many.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">U.S. officials, in October, banned regularly scheduled flights to all Cuban cities except Havana.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u201cToday\u2019s action will further restrict the Cuban regime\u2019s ability to obtain revenue, which it uses to finance its ongoing repression of the Cuban people and its unconscionable support for dictator Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela,\u201d U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez and other Cuban officials blasted the move, calling it a violation of human rights that would hinder family reunification.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">The flight caps would punish Cubans \u201con both sides of the Florida Strait,\u201d the foreign ministry\u2019s General Director for U.S. Affairs Carlos Fernandez de Cossio tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Republican U.S. President Donald Trump has clamped down on Havana following the historic move by his Democratic predecessor Barack Obama to reopen U.S.-Cuba ties. His administration has imposed sanctions over Cuba\u2019s support for Maduro.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel, in an address to parliament last month, said new U.S. sanctions were being imposed on average every week on top of the decades-old embargo and the country should expect more of the same in 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u201cThat is a turn of the screw every seven days to suffocate our economy,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">The State Department said public charter flight operators would have 60 days to wind down their Cuba operations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">The U.S. Department of Transportation will set an \u201cappropriate cap\u201d of flights allowed to Jose Marti airport and will release more details \u201cin the near future,\u201d Pompeo said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Havana\u2019s ambassador in Washington, on Twitter, wrote that the restrictions would push more visitors to \u201cuse Cubana Airlines domestic flights or other Cuban companies for local transportation.\u201d He also the United States was seeking to \u201climit the amount of people that see CUBA reality by themselves.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Nearly 624,000 Cubans living abroad visited their homeland in 2019, of which a record 552,800 were from the United States, Cuba has said. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">(Reporting by Susan Heavey in Washington and Marc Frank in Havana Editing by Chizu Nomiyama and Tom Brown)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbusiness.financialpost.com%2Fpmn%2Fbusiness-pmn%2Fu-s-seeks-to-squeeze-cuba-by-further-curbing-flights-to-island&amp;data=02%7C01%7C%7C8f114c4ae43f4dac72a008d7961483b6%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637142887154372595&amp;sdata=OxuklrnAhbMnSZmO%2FUozadzbhaBt4SA2TOtQTVkOTOo%3D&amp;reserved=0\">https:\/\/business.financialpost.com\/pmn\/business-pmn\/u-s-seeks-to-squeeze-cuba-by-further-curbing-flights-to-island<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More of the Weekly \u201cTurning of the Screws to Suffocate the Cuban Economy.\u201d \u00a0 That is how Cuban President Miguel D\u00edaz-Canel put it last December. \u00a0 Today, yet another. 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