The last remaining Castro brother, Raul, officially retired as head of Cuba’s Communist Party earlier in April aged 89. Fidel died in 2016. The revolution he led was more than six decades ago. Yet US policy towards the island nation 150km off the Florida Keys remains in a time warp of old grudges and petty politics.
It’s time to lift the decades-old US embargo — for real this time — or at the very least rescind the Trump-era restrictions that have worsened an already battered economy and allowed its leaders to blame all of Cuba’s economic woes on their neighbour to the north. Doing so would foster the kind of exchange among nations that has the potential to create real political change, and eventually, even usher in democracy...
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