"The U.S. Department of the Treasury on Monday lifted sanctions on the export of gas to socialist Venezuela," Breitbart reported on Tuesday, "a boon to the dictatorship in Caracas and its patron government in communist Cuba, which struggles to suppress mounting opposition and calls for the regime's total abolition." The lifting of sanctions is significant because "Caracas has further served as an economic lifeline for Havana, supplying much of the regime's energy needs on credit, with extremely lenient terms."
"The Biden Administration is also maintaining its predecessor Donald Trump's confrontational stance on Venezuela and China, two of Cuba's closest allies," Newsweek reported Tuesday, in a piece headlined, "Joe Biden Wounds Cuba, Venezuela and China's Hopes of Obama-Style Détente." Back in February, Reuters reported that Biden was in "No rush" to lift sanctions on Venezuela but would consider easing them if Maduro showed he was ready to negotiate with the opposition.
"We stand with the Cuban people and their clarion call for freedom and relief from the tragic grip of the pandemic," the White House statement said, "And from the decades of repression and economic suffering to which they have been subjected by Cuba's authoritarian regime." So the protest is primarily about the pandemic and an openly Communist regime is only "Authoritarian." Contrast Biden with Bernie Sanders during the 2020 primaries.
Cuban protesters bore signs denouncing la dictadura, but Biden would not say "Dictatorship," or "Totalitarian," much less "Communist." Fox News reporter Peter Doocy asked Biden press secretary Jen Psaki if Cubans wanted to leave because "They don't like Communism." Psaki said Cubans were "Opposed to the oppression, to the mismanagement of the government in the country."
On Tuesday Biden's Department of Homeland Security boss Alejandro Mayorkas told Cubans "If you take to the sea, you will not come to the United States." If individuals establish "a well-founded fear of persecution or torture, they are referred to third countries for resettlement. They will not enter the United States." As embattled Cubans might note, that marks a stark contrast to Biden's open-border policy with "Migrants" from anywhere else in the world.
Maduro regards Juan Guaidó as a U.S. puppet, the role Joe Biden plays for the composite character David Garrow described in Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama.
If Cubans thought the addled Joe Biden was a friend of the Communist dictadura and an enemy of the Cuban people it would be hard to blame them.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/07/biden-lifts-sanctions-venezuela-lloyd-billingsley/
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