Besides, the Cubans very well know that with better relations with the USA, it could mean a dramatically improved standard of living for them. The island of Cuba has huge swaths of land that can grow a huge variety of tropical agricultural products plus tobacco--and that includes sugar cane and possibly even cacao trees, where the seeds are the base ingredient for chocolate. And there are many miles of beaches for tourist development, too.
In short, the embargo against Cuba has become obsolete, especially with Russia no longer supporting them and Venezuela on the verge of complete collapse. Besides, with better relations with the USA, it may even have the strategic advantage of denying the Russians a base for ships and aircraft, too.
Check out the quote today from Raul’s daughter— it is a veritable manifesto of the continuing oligarchy of commies to run the place— stealing our money along the way of course.
Not one dime to them- not one from the US. The apparatchiks, like Alarcon and others— they are in place to take over. There will be no “transition”. This is a ruse, like Lenin pulled.