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Cuba facing the economic crossroads

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The country has had to face the paralysis of tourism for months, as a consequence of the expansion of COVID-19; which has notably affected foreign exchange earnings and the Gross Domestic Product. In turn, it has had to spend more than 1,500 million Cuban pesos and more than 100 million dollars for the expenses of the confrontation with the pandemic by the national public health system.

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San Isidro: The latest episode of the imperial reality show

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Donald Trump is leaving. But some Cubans, who arouse only shame in others, are claiming him as their president. “Trump 2020,” they shout. As President, he’s done almost everything to choke the people of Cuba, and now he has the cynicism to say that this is to help them. When he blocked, delayed, or increased the cost of the arrival of petroleum shipments, when he blocked commerce and transfers of funds to the country, he said sarcastically that they don’t know how to manage their economy.

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“Those who designed the San Isidro farce were in the wrong country.”

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“Those who designed the San Isidro farce were in the wrong country; they got the history wrong; and the armed forces wrong. We do not tolerate interference, provocation or manipulation. Our people have all the courage and the moral authority needed to sustain a fight for the heart of Cuba.” With this statement on Twitter, President of the Republic Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez made clear the nation’s position regarding the latest political provocation financed by the United States government.

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The U.S. government is solely responsible for ending remittances to Cuba via Western Union

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Lies, manipulation, coercion and the use of force have been among the principal tools of U.S. policy toward Cuba for more than 60 years. Ending what the world and Cubans, inside and beyond the Island, understand as “the Revolution,” is essential to achieving their objectives. In the most recent escalation of this hostility – which began more than six decades ago and has been reinforced by the current administration.

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Cuban President: We believe in the possibility of a constructive bilateral relationship that respects differences

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Cuban President, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, on November 8 referred to the electoral result in the United States, where Democrat Joe Biden emerged victorious, after defeating Donald Trump. “We recognize that, in their presidential elections, the people of the United States have opted for a new direction. We believe in the possibility of a constructive bilateral relationship that respects differences,” the Cuban leader wrote on Twitter.

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U.S. government sanctions against Fincimex hurt the Cuban people

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The inclusion of Fincimex on the U.S. State Department’s list of restricted Cuban entities last June, as well as the Treasury Department’s modifications to regulations for the control of Cuban assets announced on Friday, October 23, will prevent remittances to Cuba through U.S. companies with general licenses, directly harming the Cuban people and their relatives in the United States.

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Ten-point summary to understand the brutal tightening of the blockade against Cuba

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Cuban report to the United Nations indicates that damages caused by this aggressive policy exceeded five billion dollars, between April 2019 and March 2020. Our economy destroyed and our people divided. This is the objective of the U.S. government, which went to great lengths in 2019 and 2020 to exhaust and besiege Cuba.

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Ten-point summary to understand the brutal tightening of the blockade against Cuba

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cartel cubavs bloqueoCuban report to the United Nations indicates that damages caused by this aggressive policy exceeded five billion dollars, between April 2019 and March 2020Our economy destroyed and our people divided. This is the objective of the U.S. government, which went to great lengths in 2019 and 2020 to exhaust and besiege Cuba.

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New United States measure intensifies the blockade against Cuba

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The United States announced today a new measure to tighten the economic, commercial and financial blockade against Cuba , by sanctioning a company that participates in sending remittances to the Caribbean island. The Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, said this Monday through a tweet that the sanction against the Cuban remittance company American International Services (AIS)

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Billionaire Donald Trump paid $750.00 in taxes the year he won the presidency

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The New York tycoon has managed to be exempt from paying more taxes since he declared more losses than income during the entrance of the new century , something, points out this media, that has not prevented him from enjoying an expensive lifestyle by “deducting taxes on what some would consider personal expenses, “such as the use of their residences, airplanes and $ 70,000 in hairdressing to go to television and makeup sessions for their daughter Ivanka Trump.