Ricardo Herrero
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Papá de 2. Executive Director, @CubaStudyGroup . Advisor, @PCubaEmprende . USA Fellow, @EF_Fellows . Life Member, @CFR_org . Antillano. RT ≠ endorsement
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Statement: CSG Applauds Biden Measures to Support Private Sector and Expand Internet Access in
#Cuba
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Five years ago, a US President stood on Cuban soil and called for democratic changes and respect for human rights directly before the island’s rulers.
But tell me again how opposing engagement is better?
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The Cuban Embassy in DC gets sprayed with bullets by a lone gunman and the comdemnation comes not from the State Dept but from the US chargé in Havana?
Glad to see foreign service officers do the right thing where their petty political bosses won’t.
Chargé d'affaires Mara Tekach: The U.S. Embassy condemns the shooting at
@EmbaCubaEEUU
. It is a great relief that nobody was injured. The United States takes its responsibilities under the Vienna Convention very seriously and will ensure a full and complete investigation.
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This tweet aged well. As did
@brhodes
’s article. All key arguments for engagement with
#Cuba
hold. Trump’s strong man posturing may have helped Republicans win seats in Miami. But his policies only punished families and placed Cuban gov’t hardliners back in their comfort zone.
Trump's Cuba Policy Will Fail - The Atlantic. Must read by Ben Rhodes on misguided wall Trump building w/Cuba.
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Curioso toda la gente aqui que quieren darle internet gratis y sin censura al pueblo cubano pero negarle acceso a todos esos apps que permiten enviarles recursos y servicios más allá de mensajes, videos y emojis.
No veo el porque limitar tanto al cubano en la isla. Ábranlo todo!
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El pueblo cubano paga el precio de las sanciones de Trump a las remesas, los vuelos y los servicios consulares.
Más nadie.
Punto.
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It’s clear that politicians like Scott will support ever more aggressive blanket sanctions on Cuba—not to topple the regime, unilateral sanctions don’t topple anyone—but to further fuel the border migration crisis they count on to mobilize voters. As cynical as it is barbaric.
.
@SenRickScott
: “The administration should move to revoke licenses to U.S. companies operating in Cuba and Venezuela. Whether you're an airline, hotel, an oil company, cruise line or agriculture company, it doesn't matter what industry you're in.”
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Some apps & software currently inaccesible in
#Cuba
(not even w VPN) due to U.S. sanctions:
- PayPal
- Venmo
- Stripe
- Square Cash
- Zelle
- Coinbase
- Remitly
- GitHub
- Adobe
- Dropbox
- MS Office 365
- Apple Store (paid dls)
- Google Workspace (paid)
- Lyft
- Uber
- Amazon
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Interrrupting my otherwise weighty tweets to welcome our second little one to the world. Say hi to Julia.
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Here we are, entering year six of Trump/Biden
#Cuba
policy:
- Migration at Mariel level.
- Political prisoners multiplied.
- Civil society gutted.
- Economy in shambles.
- Exile radicalized.
- Castro heirs firmly in power.
Explain to me again how this is better than Obama?
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Looks like
@realDonaldTrump
and
@marcorubio
have finally given up on any pretense that they care about Americans with family in
#Cuba
.
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For 15 months, the White House refused to act on Biden’s
#Cuba
campaign promises due in part to the supplications of fearful Florida Dems who can’t find Hialeah without using Waze.
Thousands of Cuban families on both sides of the Straits paid the price.
All for nothing.
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A plea for
#SOSCuba
donations via PayPal warns not to write “
#Cuba
” or “Cubans” to avoid the funds getting blocked. This is a real world example of how US banking sanctions limit Covid relief to Cuba.
@POTUS
must ease these sanctions immediately.
#SOSCuba
#SosMatanzas
Gente que quiere ayudar en esta hora difícil para 🇨🇺. Mabel Cuesta, una cubana demasiado grande y mi socia está en Matanzas haciendo cuanto puede por ayudar. Fajá en el frente. En manos de Mabel, les aseguro, todo aporte llegará a quienes los necesitan.
Nos necesitan.
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Families in the US &
#Cuba
have mounted an unprecedented, bicoastal, genuinely grassroots online campaign to get
@POTUS
to restaff
@USEmbCuba
& restart consular services &
#CFRP
. Strong proof that Trump EOs compounded hardship for the Cuban people & must be reversed immediately.
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It’s been 150 days since
@POTUS
took office.
For
#Cuban
families waiting on his administration to fulfill campaign promises to restore travel, remittances and consular services, it feels like 150 weeks. At least.
cc:
@Cartajuanero
@RonaldKlain
@WHCOS
@SecBlinken
@jakejsullivan
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Acabo de enviar ayuda a
#SOSMatanzas
usando
#Bitcoin
atraves de
@QvaPay
.
Le ronca que no pueda enviar remesas humanitarias por
@WesternUnion
.
Por favor levanten las restricciones a las remesas ya!
@Cartajuanero
@StateDept
@SecBlinken
@wallyadeyemo
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It’s all fun and populism until a global pandemic breaks out.
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U.S. remittances to
#Cuba
are channeled through one of these entities. It is inhumane and the height of hypocrisy for Sec. Pompeo to claim the Trump Administration stands with the Cuban people while attempting to cut off remittances to Cuban families in the middle of a pandemic.
Today, we add seven new subentities to the Cuba Restricted List. We will continue to stop the flow of money into the pockets of those who oppress the Cuban people. 61 years of oppression and dictatorship are enough. To the Cuban people: you deserve better and we stand with you.
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It’s remarkably ironic how little consideration Trump administration officials -of all people- give to nationalist pride in their expectations that Iran, Venezuela or Cuba will buckle under US “maximum pressure” campaigns.
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Demonizar a una actriz cubana por visitar su tierra natal para ver a sus familiares y amistades debe de ser una de las maneras más inútiles de promover la libertad en Cuba.
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I will never understand the logic:
Yea we tried Obama for two years and it didn’t work immediately, so let’s go back to what hasn’t worked for 60 YEARS and if you don’t like it eres un communista!
It is madness.
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El problema que tiene el gobierno cubano no es con los Estados Unidos.
Es con su propio pueblo y con su diáspora. Es un problema entre cubanos.
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Discourse among Cuban Americans is now at a place where popular
#Cuba
policy measures are impractical and practical measures are unpopular.
This is why Trump did so well with the community. Because he promised libertad and then lied & lied & lied (in Miami) about delivering it.
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Dudo que Cuba llegue lejos si a cada propuesta especifica se le responda con "Cuba no necesita [propuesta], Cuba necesita LIBERTAD".
Las varitas májicas no existen. Se necesitan recursos y vision en multiples areas para alcanzar esa meta. Hay que ser aditivo, no sustractivo.
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Tres meses seguidos de sentencias desorbitadas contra manifestantes de 11J en los titulares saliendo de Cuba. El objetivo del estado será desalentar más protestas en el futuro. El efecto en Washington es que ya casi nadie habla de reanudar las relaciones.
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Three years ago today, President Trump flew to Miami to announce he was "cancelling" Obama's
#Cuba
policy. He said he'd "seek a much better deal for the Cuban people" and help them "form businesses and pursue much better lives." How well has that worked out for Cubans so far? 1/
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News flash: you’ve already thrown the full sanctions book at the Cuban government. A “full and complete embargo” means punishing the people. Tripling-down on same failed approach is just plain asinine.
#Cuba
If Cuban Troops and Militia do not immediately CEASE military and other operations for the purpose of causing death and destruction to the Constitution of Venezuela, a full and complete....
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Sanctions announcement schedule, per Trump NSC -
Sanctions against govt officials: Tuesday morning official statement
Sanctions that hurt the people:
Friday afternoon tweet
Exemptions for Big Oil and financiers doing “business with the enemy”: 1 am Saturday morning letter
So the Treasury Department decided that a Saturday at 1 a.m. was a good time to publish extensions to licensed to Venezuela sanctions for Chevron and 2020 bondholders
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“This is the opportunity we have been waiting [for] to influence generational change in
#Cuba
.”
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Grateful for the opportunity to speak with
@brhodes
on
#PodSaveTheWorld
about how
@POTUS
should re-engage with
#Cuba
. Interview starts at 57:20 (tho entire episode’s great).
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Miami pols wanted to ban Cuba flights to curb Covid. Now Cuba may have to bar us.
We laughed at Cubans for their makeshift masks. Then we had to sew our own.
We criticize them for sending medical teams door to door. Now look at Miami.
Maybe we should learn to pick our battles?
For the first time, Miami-Dade County will send teams to neighborhoods with the highest number of coronavirus cases to educate people about social distancing and masking and distribute hand sanitizer and mask. The county is also providing hotel rooms for people to self-isolate.
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Strongly worded statement by
@POTUS
in support of the Cuban people. But we need more that strong words.
We need direct diplomacy and an easing of sanctions that, as Biden recognized, "have done nothing to advance democracy or human rights" or curb Covid-19 spread in
#Cuba
.
NEW: President Joe Biden said the United States supports the Cuban people and called their rare protests a “clarion call for freedom and relief” from the pandemic and generations of dictatorship.
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Now that
#Cuba
has officially recognized
#Bitcoin
, will the
@USTreasury
prefer that everyday Cubans use Russian and Chinese crypto wallets, or will it grant access to American ones?
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El gobierno cubano grita en todo foro y plataforma mundial que EEUU les quite las sanciones, pero no levanta un dedo para mejorar las relaciones. Por que será?
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Cuban authorities zap their own credibility when they complain about travel bans or this year’s
#SummitOfTheAmericas
not being inclusive and then deny their own citizens the right to attend.
@SailydeAmarillo
is part of
#Cuban
civil society, was invited, and should be there.
1/ Cuba sí ha sido invitada a la IX Cumbre de Las Américas
@BrunoRguezP
, solo que los invitados somos aquellos que queremos democracia y que se respeten todos los derechos de todos los cubanos y no los que presentan, como únicas opciones, el Socialismo o la Muerte
@DiazCanelB
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The Florida GOP’s
#Cuba
strategy is cynical beyond words. They’ve convinced Trump to pile on the pain for 11 million ppl just to appease approx 100,000 aggrieved voters (out of 1.2MM Cuban-Americans) who after 60 yrs still refuse to accept that unilateral sanctions don’t deliver.
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Any anti-embargo statement that ignores the recent repression and summary trials without due process in Cuba cannot claim to be morally clear.
I think it is a modest contribution without any ambiguity or false pretensión to the pro engagement cause. I signed it immediately. If u don’t understand the importance of speaking against the
#USAblockade
vs
#Cuba
with moral clarity perhaps u should consider ur own advice
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Importante acto de presencia a favor de la familia cubana. Si estan en Miami mañana, por favor pasen por la Ermita.
#FamiliesBelongTogether
#Cuba
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Pompeo with the ol’ “our sanctions never hurt people, only vile regimes hurt people.” That neocon lie just refuses to die.
I asked Peru’s foreign minister what he might do if sanctions against Maduro start negatively impacting the humanitarian situation in Venezuela. Pompeo stepped in & said I “shouldn’t ask questions like that” & accused me of blaming the crisis on the US. I didn’t, but you decide:
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It’s strange. Based on his opeds and SFRC work, Rubio clearly yearns to be regarded as a global foreign policy thinker. But in the areas where he’s actually had a chance to shape policy,
#Venezuela
&
#Cuba
, his every move has been guided by the identity politics of his hometown.
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Apparently the Trump administration will announce at 5pm today that all flight routes from the US to Cuba will be suspended, except to Havana.
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Si vives en Cuba, como percibes que te impactan o no las sanciones/embargo de EEUU?
(Obvio que esto no es una encuesta científica pero curioso ver cómo se responde. ✌️)
Me impactan directamente
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De que hablas?
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Hard to see how Biden admin hopes to (a) rally international pressure vs the Cuban gov’t, or (b) encourage US tech firms to apply for OFAC licenses to expand internet access in
#Cuba
when all it does is pile targeted sanctions on top of universally-condemned blanket sanctions.
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Maduro is stronger today than when the hardline Cuban embargo lobby started dictating Trump’s Venezuela policy.
Let that sink in for a minute, Florida.
Venezuela's first "seven-star" hotel points to the regime's growing confidence that it will survive international pressure aimed at toppling it
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María Elvira se va a montar en un zepelín con un módem bajo cada brazo la semana que viene.
.
@RepMariaSalazar
a
@JoeBiden
: se nos está acabando la paciencia. Le hemos pedido dos cosas y no hemos recibido ninguna: internet y liderazgo. Si ustedes no lo hacen (darle internet libre al pueblo cubano) lo haremos nosotros
#BREAKING
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"I’d try to reverse the failed Trump policies that inflicted harm on Cubans and their families [& have] done nothing to advance democracy and human rights...the crackdown on Cubans by the regime has gotten worse under Trump, not better." -
@POTUS
, 9/6/20
#promisemade
"Joe Biden no es Barack Obama en la política hacia Cuba" dice funcionario de EE.UU.
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YouTube, Facebook, Twitter & all other social media that enables Cubans to stream-cast protests and connect w/ the world: American and thanks to the engagement policies of the Obama administration.
The government’s technology to shut down the Internet: almost certainly Chinese.
Two key and obvious differences with the last time Cubans took to the streets in 1994: the internet, through which countless videos and pics have been shared, and Fidel Castro who, try though they might, the current leadership can’t imitate.
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There is no denying that much of what we’re seeing in
#Cuba
today is organic and representative of real grievances. Official calls for “combat” are as irresponsible as calls for “military intervention” from the US. The Cuban government must be responsive to all its citizens.
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Las políticas prometidas por Biden hacia
#Cuba
. Tres meses después de su inauguración, las familias cubanas siguen esperando.
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Su recordatorio diario de que después de cuatro años de Trump hemos visto CERO progreso hacia la democracia en
#Cuba
,
#Nicaragua
o
#Venezuela
, pero sí un BOOM de promesas vacías a los votantes de Florida.
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This is welcome news 👏🏼
Biden administration takes first step to increase staffing at the embassy in Havana - by
@ngameztorres
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The most underreported story in the year since this White House announced its "
#Cuba
policy review" is how Biden's inner circle abandoned all campaign promises on Cuba just to placate Sen. Menendez. Their inaction has had little to do with Florida or supporting the Cuban people.
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For those paying attention: nativist Florida Republicans (1) support blanket economic sanctions on
#Cuba
, (2) despite their pull effect on migration to U.S. border, which they now seek to solve by (3) busing new Cuban migrants to Delaware once they get to Miami.
This is lunacy.
Cuban-American Lt. Gov. of Florida calls for sending historic numbers of Cuban migrants this year on buses out of S Florida to Delaware, Biden's state.
Wow.
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Very proud of our work on this document. Just one hour away!
Our comprehensive policy vision for U.S.-
#Cuba
relations in the Biden era will be available in English and Spanish versions today at 10:30am ET via our site: .
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“More Americans favor engaging
#Cuba
diplomatically than any other approach to the island, according to a new poll by the online political platform Moxy.”
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They will announce this late on Friday afternoon because they know it's a reprehensible policy that won't go over well with the American public.
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A joyous anniversary to my rock and media naranja and happy day to all the lucky twitter dads.
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The lesson here is not “bypass the Cuban American community when implementing common-sense Cuba policy.”
The lesson is bypass any Florida Dem who does not yet understand that showing leadership on this issue matters more than avoiding it in fear of getting labeled a communist.
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“dozens”
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When we finally shake ourselves out of this irrational era we’re living through, perhaps we’ll wonder how we ceded the ground we gained in Cuba under Obama over to China and Russia for at least a generation, just so politicians could virtue signal to their Florida constituents.
China endorsed the Taliban’s abusive rule over Afghanistan and then announced it supports the communist regime in Cuba. This tells the world everything we need to know about where the Cuban dictatorship stands when it comes to freedom and human rights.
#SOSCuba
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"Today, the United States is taking a series of measures to increase support for the
#Cuban
people in line with our national security interests." -
@StateDeptSpox
👏 Thank you,
@POTUS
.
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Just spend a week in Puerto Rico after more than a year away from the Caribbean since my last pre-Covid visit to Cuba. It was soul replenishing. No matter where I reside, there’s no escaping it. Soy isleño. En las dos alas I will always feel at home.
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Five years ago today, I watched the Stones rock Havana. Hard not to lament the colossal waste the Trump years were for every hopeful Cuban at that historic concert.
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Two things can be true at the same time:
The Cuban gov’t is brutally repressive in defense of its power.
US sanctions don’t reduce that repression and compound hardships suffered by Cubans demanding freedoms.
We must resist either/or trappings and fix what is our role to fix.
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First rule: no one moves to Miami as a result of doing homework. You move there because you fell in love, need family to babysit, or are fleeing another government. Thassit. The less questions you ask going in the better.
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Se abre una ventana de oportunidad para que
#Cuba
y Estados Unidos construyan una relación funcional – Entrevista de
@The_Dialogue
con Carlos Saladrigas, presidente del
@CubaStudyGroup
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Charlie in Havana, March 2016. My heart swells with gratitude for so much incredible music. RIP.
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“Fuerzas ajenas a la revolución.” Están hablando de su propio pueblo. De sus propios jóvenes.
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I always enjoy days when hardline claims that US-Cuba engagement deals betray the Cuban people get undermined by literally every Cuban who doesn’t work in Miami politics.
.
@YasielPuig
"Saber que futuros peloteros cubanos no tendrán que pasar por lo que pasamos, me hace feliz". Lea más reacciones de peloteros cubanos en el
@elnuevoherald
@jorgeebro
#Cuba
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On July 30,
@POTUS
directed
@StateDept
&
@USTreasury
to provide recommendations "within a month" for "how to maximize the flow of remittances to the
#Cuban
people, without the Cuban military taking their cut."
The month is up. We hope to see recommendations (and action) soon.
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This is the definition of the “pressure cooker” policy. Force barbaric conditions on the Cuban people in hopes that it will lead to social collapse and then, magically, to democracy.
Fact: It has never worked. Anywhere.
@RepCarlos
’s posturing is inhumane and irresponsible.
On
@ActualidadRadio
,
@RepCarlos
says the situation in Cuba shows the US can’t relax hardline policies toward Cuba. Asked if he would advocate for some protections if the protests lead to an exodus, he says “If you do that, you’re telling Cubans to throw themselves to the ocean.”
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A real pro who witnessed first hand the positive impact that engagement policy had in
#Cuba
. Great to see Emily Mendrala join the
@StateDept
as DAS for Cuba and regional migration.
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It’s been 45 days since the Remittance Working Group submitted its recommendations to
@POTUS
.
The
@WhiteHouse
continues to sit on them—frozen, silent—keeping family remittances to
#Cuba
in the black market for nearly a year.
During a pandemic.
There simply is no justification.
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Petición por la Familia Cubana reúne más de doscientas personas en la Ermita y miles en las redes -
@23yflagler
#Cuba
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Good to see
@StateDept
officials meet with the
#PatriayVida
artists. It's important to seek input from all Cubans on how US policy can help improve lives in
#Cuba
. Now let's follow these exchanges with action, starting with lifting travel, remittance and
#CFRP
restrictions.
Inspiring call today with
@yotuel007
,
@GdZOficial
, and
@EsBeatrizLuengo
, where State Department officials heard about the viral
#PatriaYVida
.
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Florida Republicans talking a big game of democracy in Cuba to distract from their active efforts to undermine voting rights in the U.S. would make Fidel blush.
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Obama’s opening gave Cubans a taste of a freer world. For the first time in 50+ yrs they dreamt of a brighter future at home.
The regime’s fear of change & Trump’s sanctions crushed those dreams.
We know which is the better way. It has to be updated based on what we’ve learned.
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“No repitan el crimen del
#11J
. Ojalá que oficiales y soldados comprendan que no hay honor alguno en obedecer órdenes inmorales. Ojalá también q ninguna potencia extranjera interfiera en un asunto que debemos resolver con verdadera soberanía, la de los ciudadanos.”-
@yuniortrebol
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Muchos en Miami preguntándome que va a hacer la administración Biden para contener el incendio en
#Matanzas
, más allá de ofrecer asistencia técnica.
No sabemos. Por eso es importante que le exijan a sus representantes en el Congreso y a esta Casa Blanca que hagan más.
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Took this picture from the balcony of my room the last time I stayed at the Hotel Saratoga. Later that day
@BarackObama
landed in Havana for his historic visit. It was a more hopeful time, sadly all gone. My heart aches for the families of those lost or injured today.
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