Despite promises to lift some Trump sanctions, Biden leaves Cuba in deep freeze
WASHINGTON — One of Cuba's most senior diplomats switches from Spanish to English when he describes the pace at which many Cubans expected a new President Joe Biden to ease restrictions on the island nation.
"Swiftly," Carlos Fernández de Cossío said. Biden had campaigned with the vow of a fast rollback of many of the toughest policies imposed on Cuba by President Donald Trump. But nearly nine months into the Biden administration, little has changed.
To punish Cuba and win political points in Florida, Trump took steps to reverse the diplomatic thaw started by President Barack Obama. Trump suspended remittances, the money Cuban Americans and others send to relatives and friends on the island; made drastic cuts in travel by U.S. citizens to Cuba; blocked some
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