One of Cuba's top diplomats said the US is seeking to break diplomatic relations with Cuba — and that's something the island’s communist government doesn't want.
Tuesday marks five years since former President Barack Obama announced that full diplomatic relations with Cuba would be restored after more than a half-century of hostility. Embassies were opened in 2015, travel and trade restrictions were eased, and U.S. travel to the island flourished.
Some in the Cuban exile community criticized the deal, saying the United States didn't much much in return for the concessions. Two years later, Donald Trump was elected promising a better deal with the island. But so far, the Trump administration has only tightened the embargo. Travel restrictions that were loosened under Obama's administration were reimposed, cruise ships were once again banned from docking on the island, and Americans whose properties were confiscated after the 1959 Cuban revolution are now allowed to sue any foreign companies profiting from those assets in U.S. courts.
"One only needs to hear statements by the officials of the U.S. government to understand that their aim is to continue to apply economic coercive measures to punish the lives of Cubans, of ordinary Cubans," Fernández de Cossío said."So it is easy to come to the conclusion that the aim is to sever the relationship."
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