CUBA
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The European Union’s top diplomat visited Cuba, reaffirming the bloc’s commitment to its rapprochement with the island nation as President Donald Trump’s administration pulls back from the détente negotiated by his predecessor.
Federica Mogherini’s visit “reconfirms the strong EU-Cuban relationship,” and she will press for an “ambitious and swift joint implementation” of the accord the bloc negotiated as former President Barack Obama normalized relations with Cuba in 2015-2016, Reuters quoted an EU statement as saying.
The deal was intended to win European firms access to the Cuban market and allow the bloc to press for political freedoms on the island.
Trump announced in June that he was “canceling” the Obama administration’s deals and re-imposed business and travel restrictions for Cuba in November. In what might be read as a rejoinder, a report in the official Juventud Rebelde newspaper noted that the EU is Cuba’s second-largest trading partner and
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