In this episode, adapted from a web series produced in Havana, an independent journalist looks at the harsh impact of six decades of American sanctions, from the point of view of many of Cuba’s ...

Cuba has faced many economic crises, but the current one is different. It is far worse than even that of the early 1990s, when Cuba lost all trade with the Soviet bloc, and at the same time the US ...

Biden officials have also heaped fresh sanctions on Cuba, Iran, China, Syria and Russia—all countries targeted under Trump — as well as entirely new sanctions in the Balkans, Belarus and Burma.

The implosion of the Socialist Bloc in the late 1980s and early 1990s severely impacted Cuba. No longer buffered by these allies, the full weight of the US-led regime-change campaign sent Cuba ...

If the travel ban and the embargo are ended unilaterally now by the U.S., what negotiating tool to encourage change in Cuba will the U.S. government have with a future regime?

Covid-19: Cuba Deserves Relief From US Sanctions Humanitarian deterrence of the virus, not Cold War–era regime change, should be the top priority of US foreign policy. Peter Kornbluh ...

As 185 nations condemned U.S. sanctions on Cuba, ... They could be fair, and the impact of this list is lethal to our economy, and it's provoking a huge humanitarian damage to our people.

Besides certain expansions on remittances in 2022, the White House, on Jan. 14, 2025, issued a statement announcing President Joe Biden's plans to relax sanctions on Cuba through a series of broad ...

Trump tightens Cuba sanctions as he woos Cuban American vote President Trump speaks during an event to honor Bay of Pigs veterans in the East Room of the White House on Sept. 23, 2020. (Evan Vucci ...

While Cuba has largely weathered the embargo, the COVID-19 pandemic has introduced new hardships that have impeded the economy. And Beijing has sought to step in to help. "Enough with sanctions!

The U.S. government has both been stiffening up the blockade of Cuba and denying that sanctions have any impact on the functioning of the country (in fact, in 2021, then-White House press ...

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Monday re-designated Cuba as a “state sponsor of terrorism,” hitting the country with new sanctions that could hamstring President-elect Joe Biden ...