“Díaz-Canel has said Cuba is facing difficulties that it knew were coming when the U.S. put tight economic sanctions on the country.”
Excuses excuses, you only have the entire rest of the world to trade with. Iran lives pretty well and gets no American trade either.
“. . . Cuba is facing difficulties that it knew were coming when the U.S. put tight economic sanctions on the country.”
I never could understand that argument - for generations the Castro’s claimed that Cuba’s economic problems stemmed from capitalist exploitation by the US - if we can’t trade with them, how the hell can we exploit them? If they really believed their propaganda, they should welcome any reduction (or total prohibition) of trade with the US - the less such trade, the less they’re ‘exploited’ by us.