Donald Trump threatens to end the historical bond between Cuba and the US

U.S. Marion Schneider
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Donald Trump recently announced that he wants the United States of America to end its agreement with Cuba.

The US President-elect launched this warning just a few days after the death of former communist leader Fidel Castro, as Reuters reported.

‘If Cuba is not willing to come up with a better proposal for Cuban citizens, for US-Cuban ones and for the United States, then I am going to end this agreement’, wrote the Republican leader on Twitter.

Bilateral relations between Cuba and the United States, that were former Cold War enemies, were significantly improved in recent years, under the leadership of Raul Castro and Barack Obama. Moreover, US President Barack Obama also attended an official visit to Cuba in March.

Lately, there has been more progress considering the relations between the two countries. In August, JetBlue company operated the first flight between the US and Cuba, after a break of more than five decades – between Fort Lauderdale and Santa Clara.

On board of that plane there were several businessmen, journalists, and also American citizens of Cuban origin.

Donald Trump’s threat comes a few days after the death of Fidel Castro.

On Saturday, the President-elect said that Fidel Castro was a ‘brutal dictator’ who ‘oppressed his people’, affirming that he only leaves behind ‘a legacy of executions, theft, unimaginable suffering, poverty and violation of fundamental human rights’.

In 1960, Washington presidential administration imposed an embargo on Cuba. In December 2014, Obama announced that he will normalize the relations with the Cuban state after a period of over 50 years of hostilities.

In July 2015, the two countries have reopened embassies, but the blockade remained in force. On the first day of Trump’s campaign, has went to Miami, where he talked to a group of Cubans settled in the US and promised to maintain the embargo on Cuba.