The Cuban Government applies Obama's economic suggestions

Raúl Castro and Barack Obama in Havana in 2015. REUTERS

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An article published by the Cuba official newspaper Granma which sees hope in the normalization of US-Cuba relations with the victory of the Democrats in the elections , maintains that today economic suggestions from President Barack Obama are being launched during his visit to Havana in 2015.

According to the official journalist Iroel Sánchez, who describes Obama's speech for Cuba as seductive and interfering, the elimination of double currency, facilitating the opening of private businesses and their relationship with foreign investment are contained in the transformations that will be launched after solving the Gordian knot that is the monetary and exchange unification with the so called ordering task.

This will create better conditions to immediately implement a group of pending actions such as the substitution of a list of permitted economic activities for another much less prohibited, the implementation of privately owned micro, medium and small enterprises, and the linking of cash from the non-state sector with the state sector and with foreign investment says the article which continues to attack Washington's policies.

Internet connectivity although it must continue to improve has multiplied and today is a much more available throughout the Island reality, as he suggested despite Washington's persecution of financiers and suppliers and despite what that Sánchez describes as onerous amounts of money to promote the media and fabricate false leaders of a virtual civil society that, according to him is better known in the offices of the CIA than in the streets of Cuba.

The article says that the Cuban government has not been detained waiting for the blockade to be lifted but rather has defended a civilized relationship between the two countries.

According to its author, Havana has given a lesson on how to protect its people obtaining exemplary management indicators for the Covid-19 epidemic and has agreed on an economic strategy to definitively unleash its economic potential. He affirms that this is what the Cuban people want and defend, not a government that bows its head in front of its powerful neighbor.

For Iroel Sánchez , the fact that a different perspective reaches the White House, even though it continues to pretend to lead the world is an opportunity to move forward again on those issues that enjoy great international consensus such as (...) the path towards normalization between the US and Cuba.

Although he criticizes that both Donald Trump, Mike Pence, and Joe Biden and Kamala Harris share the same definition of the Government of the Island, which they refer to as a regime, a dictatorship that must be changed. Granma considers it fortunate that Democrats have demonstrated supporters of reversing what they consider failed policies towards the current president's Havana.

Granma replicates the words of Kamala Harris in a response to the EFE agency on the eve of the November 3 vote. Although he describes them as hopeful in terms of reversing the extreme measures imposed by Donald Trump, he says they reproduce the disqualifying and propagandistic rhetoric typical of the Cold War. We will backtrack on Trump's failed policies. And as he did previously as vice president, Joe Biden will also demand the release of political prisoners and make human rights a centerpiece in the diplomatic relationship. The embargo is the law; you need an act of Congress to lift it or you need the president to determine that a democratically elected government is in power in Cuba. We don't expect any of these things to happen anytime soon.

For the author of the Granma article resuming the path of bilateral dialogue between the US and Cuba and restoring the agreements reached during the Obama administration would not only benefit Cubans.

In Sánchez's words, there are many rights of US citizens violated and much US national interest damaged by the desire to please which he describes as an extremist group that controls political expression among Cuban Americans in South Florida. He insists that as a result of supposed consensus and broad debates, the island has changed and his government is heading to deepen those changes. He complains that has not done it to please the US, but in spite of all the obstacles that have been interposed from there to make it difficult.