I think the Cuban economy was always propped up by non-US players as a way to cock a snook at the USA. And Fidel kept blaming the us embargo foe the evils he created. By removing the embargo he has no excuses and will fall
Perhaps, but there is Helms-Burton Act— a law that does not allow executive lifting of the embargo. And it WILL be enforced, by Congress bicameral resolution vote that put in place the power to continue the embargo. Not the prez. He does it—he is impeached for certain because this ain’t a black white issue it is Constitutional.