Millions of people in Cuba were left without electricity for two days after the nation’s energy grid went down when one of the island’s major power plants failed.
Can someone explain to me what’s the point in upholding the US sanctions on Cuba that are the root cause for all of this?
Like, what real benefit do the US have from keeping those sanctions up?
iirc it’s basically to appease the Cuban voting block in Florida who are against the regime in Cuba (because they got kicked out/lost property/whatever). This group holds some amount of sway in federal elections on account of Florida being (having been?) a swing state.
I believe Obama was in the process of mending the relations between the U.S and Cuba, and then Trump got into office and promptly reversed it as a giveaway to this group that now votes Republican.
Domestically, there’s a lot of political pull from Cuban exiles, both those who fled during the Cuban Revolution and those who fled afterwards, and their descendants. It doesn’t serve US interests in any significant sense at this point, and since the 90s, it’s been utterly pointless except as a tool to ensure Florida stays ‘in play’ with regards to domestic politics.
Can someone explain to me what’s the point in upholding the US sanctions on Cuba that are the root cause for all of this?
Like, what real benefit do the US have from keeping those sanctions up?
iirc it’s basically to appease the Cuban voting block in Florida who are against the regime in Cuba (because they got kicked out/lost property/whatever). This group holds some amount of sway in federal elections on account of Florida being (having been?) a swing state.
I believe Obama was in the process of mending the relations between the U.S and Cuba, and then Trump got into office and promptly reversed it as a giveaway to this group that now votes Republican.
Domestically, there’s a lot of political pull from Cuban exiles, both those who fled during the Cuban Revolution and those who fled afterwards, and their descendants. It doesn’t serve US interests in any significant sense at this point, and since the 90s, it’s been utterly pointless except as a tool to ensure Florida stays ‘in play’ with regards to domestic politics.
https://www.state.gov/reports/country-reports-on-terrorism-2019/cuba/#:~:text=Overview%3A Cuba was designated as,guerrilla groups and individual terrorists.