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AP source: Biden looks to increase staffing of Cuba embassy
AP via MSN ^ | 7/19/21 | Saner Madhani

Posted on 07/19/2021 4:49:13 PM PDT by Libloather

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden on Monday ordered the State Department to create a working group to review U.S. remittance policy to ensure that money that Cuban Americans send home makes it directly into the hands of their families without the regime taking a cut.

He also ordered a review of the viability of increasing staff at the U.S. Embassy in Havana. The White House is hopeful that a boost in staffing could help it better facilitate civil society engagement following one of the communist island's biggest antigovernment demonstrations in recent memory.

The actions were detailed by a senior administration official who spoke on condition of anonymity because the Biden administration hadn’t yet publicly announced the effort.

It comes a little more than a week after thousands of Cubans took to the streets of Havana and other cities across the island to protest food shortages and high prices during the coronavirus crisis. It's a level of frustration not seen in Cuba in more than 60 years.

Biden is also calling for the administration to work with Congress to identify options to make the internet more accessible on the island. The regime moved to quickly cut off internet access to stop images of the protests from being broadcast to the world.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Health/Medicine; Local News
KEYWORDS: biden; communists; cuba; embassy
Gonna need a bigger embassy.
1 posted on 07/19/2021 4:49:13 PM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

BiXiden needs to sort out whatever warfare was run against the Embassy peeps there in the past.


2 posted on 07/19/2021 4:51:14 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Critical Marx Theory is The SOLUTION....)
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To: Libloather

Perhaps a Benghazi with a latin twist?


3 posted on 07/19/2021 4:51:49 PM PDT by Antihero101607
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To: Libloather

Is AOC going ?


4 posted on 07/19/2021 4:52:57 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: butlerweave

I’d much rather they make her czarina of Puerto Rico.


5 posted on 07/19/2021 4:55:00 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: nascarnation

Send a couple of big cruise ships to Havana and see how many want a free one way to Miami. Then see how many want a one way from Miami to Havana. I dare the administration to try that.


6 posted on 07/19/2021 5:07:05 PM PDT by Don Corleone (leave the gun, take the canolis)
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To: Don Corleone
Send a couple of big cruise ships to Havana and see how many want a free one way to Miami. Then see how many want a one way from Miami to Havana. I dare the administration to try that.

Gawd, that would be delicious!

7 posted on 07/19/2021 5:10:17 PM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem by far: most of the news media is agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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To: Libloather

No doubt with a singular mission: figure out how to save the communist regime.


8 posted on 07/19/2021 5:10:19 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: Libloather; Larry Lucido; Gamecock; SaveFerris; Rebelbase
Will we able to get Cuban cigars?


9 posted on 07/19/2021 5:11:55 PM PDT by PROCON (Our rights do not come from government, therefore they cannot take them away.)
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To: Libloather

Send Joe, his brain won’t know it if the death rays are aimed at him.


10 posted on 07/19/2021 5:14:11 PM PDT by dforest (huh)
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To: Libloather

No wants their brains fried with microwaves step right up


11 posted on 07/19/2021 5:30:52 PM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it)
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To: Paladin2

I don’t think the Cubans will be threatened enough by trannies and fags to use their wave frequency weapon.


12 posted on 07/19/2021 6:01:20 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Play with knives long enough and you will eventually bleed.)
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To: PROCON

Cuban cigars were permitted on a limited basis for a while after Obama (e.g. you could purchase them abroad, and import them to the USA for your own use). I don’t smoke cigars often (once or twice per month, maximum), but I made it a point to purchase some every time I went abroad. Trump ended this in September 2020, sending the value of my collection skyrocketing! :-P


13 posted on 07/19/2021 6:50:45 PM PDT by billakay
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To: Libloather

Because if there’s one class of refugee we really really have to keep out, it’s hard working folks fleeing tyranny.


14 posted on 07/19/2021 7:01:33 PM PDT by Salman (It's not a "slippery slope" if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: pepsi_junkie

sending cia agents to help put down the protests


15 posted on 07/19/2021 7:46:32 PM PDT by joshua c (Dump the LEFT. Cable tv, Big tech, national name brands)
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To: Libloather

In reality, the Big Guy has not been getting his cut. Hunter Biden will be appointed Ambassador and will route the funds appropriately.


16 posted on 07/19/2021 8:20:40 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Corrupt Slow Joe Biden is the Bolshevik sock puppet.)
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To: PROCON; Larry Lucido; SaveFerris; Rebelbase
A more fitting emissary from this administration I cannot imagine.


17 posted on 07/21/2021 11:24:51 AM PDT by Gamecock ("The prosperity gospel is exactly like marrying someone for their money." -Sean Demars)
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