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[...] It is evident that the case of the embargo plays against this evolution: it victimizes, not without reason, the regime, and credits with the people its hostility towards the United States. Although the embargo has been lifted on food products, the Republican majority Congress has however interrupted Obama for any project to lift the total embargo, estimating that other changes from Havana would be desirable to get there. The conservative doctrine of Trump On the other hand, Trump, carried to power by a more conservative electorate, is in favor of a certain firmness towards regimes he judges to be little acceptable (Cuba is again just one case among others, such as Iran). [...]
[...] However, neither the 1990s nor the following years saw a notable political evolution of the Cuban regime, a reason sufficient, according to Washington, to maintain the embargo on the island and not to re-establish diplomatic relations, at least until 2008 and the election of Barack Obama. The criticisms are now numerous. The UN, first, considers the maintenance of the embargo as unjustified and proposes an annual vote that has become a ritual to lift it - a vote to which the United States are practically the only ones to respond negatively. [...]
[...] Why is the potential lifting of the US embargo on Cuba complex due to the ideological changes made by US presidents? Introduction Legacy of the Cold War, the American embargo on the communist island of Cuba, which dates back over half a century, continues to occasionally make the headlines, on the one hand when the United Nations proposes to put an end to it, but also when such or such American president illustrates to Cuba his policy of relaxation, or conversely, of hardening, of his diplomatic strategy vis-à-vis states deemed potentially hostile to the United States. [...]
[...] Another public, certainly not acquired to the Cuban political ideology, is that of entrepreneurs. Since the beginning of the 2000s, the island appears as a country with a real investment potential: agriculture, tourism . The start-up managers have thus invested in the island as soon as the first signs of warming up between Obama and Castro. The return of uncertainty that has prevailed since Trump's arrival at the White House is far from reassuring them, while these actors would have an interest in seeing the embargo completely lifted. [...]
[...] For example, a chill occurred when American and Canadian diplomats stationed in Cuba mysteriously fell ill with health problems that could be related to the inhalation of neurotoxins, or even a sonic weapon - a deliberate attack by Cuba, according to Trump. Whatever the case, the event, which led to the expulsion of two Cuban diplomats, totally unjustified according to Havana, illustrates the suspicion that persists between the two countries. Their relationship is also subject to international relations with other countries: we know the firm stance taken by the United States during the recent incidents in Venezuela, a major ally of Cuba. [...]
