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.
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.
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.