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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Minrex) of the Caribbean country regretted, however, in a statement issued just over an hour after Washington’s announcement, that the Joe Biden administration had not eliminated the economic embargo, in force since 1962.
“The The decision does not modify the blockade, the fraudulent inclusion in the list of countries that sponsor terrorism, nor the majority of Trump’s maximum pressure coercive measures that still affect the Cuban people,” censured the Minrex.
Remittances may exceed one thousand dollars per quarter
The president of the United States. USA, Joe Biden, announced on May 16 that his country will suspend the limit of 1.000 dollars per quarter to remittances, reversing some of the toughest measures of his predecessor Donald Trump (2017-2021).
Biden will also restore a family reunification program that had been suspended for years, the State Department reported in a statement.
The Cuban Foreign Minister , Bruno Rodríguez, criticized the US for not having “changed either the objectives or the main instruments of the failed policy (…) against Cuba”, in a message posted on Twitter.
Washington reacts to demand from Latin America, says the Cuban regime
However , the island government highlighted in its statement that the decision “also responds to the calls of US society and Cubans residing in that country” and that “it has been a demand of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States and that of the almost all of the member states of the United Nations”.
The Minrex reiterated that Havana is open to dialogue with Washington “on the basis of the Charter of the United Nations”. Both countries held a bilateral dialogue on migration in the US capital last April. It was the first meeting of its kind in four years.
jov (efe, afp)