Cuba: what will Biden's election change?
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By: Marie-France Chatin Follow
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Before stepping down from office, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo rushed through a series of measures that promise to make life harder for the Biden administration.
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- Listing of Houthi rebels in Yemen on the list of terrorist organizations, strengthening Washington's alignment with Saudi positions
- Hardening of relations with Tehran by accusing Iran of having become "the new base" of the terrorist nebula Al Qaida with, in passing, the announcement of a final round of sanctions
- And for what interests us, more particularly, the replacement of Cuba on the list of countries which sponsor terrorism on the same basis as Iran, North Korea and Syria.
Donald Trump's aversion to Cuba will have raged until the very end of his mandate, which has rained down more than 190 sanctions on the island in four years.
Cuba's placement on the blacklist obviously aims to block a return to the historic dialogue initiated by Barack Obama in December 2014. It will restrict its foreign trade and expose foreign investors on the island to prosecution in the United States.
It will complicate the relationship with Cuba of the new government of Joe Biden and worsen the economic difficulties of the 11 million Cubans.
Will Joe Biden be able to reconcile Cuba and America and go so far as to call for the unconditional lifting of the embargo by the American Congress?
Our guests :
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Janette Habel
, political scientist, teacher at the Institute of Higher Studies of Latin America.
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Matthias Fekl
, former minister.
Lawyer, founder of the AUDIT-DUPREY-FEKL firm.
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Stéphane Witkowski
, Chairman of Bale Conseil.
Teacher at ILERI.
Chairman of the Strategic Orientation Council of IHEAL.
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