A senior Biden administration official told Newsweek that the moves sought to both 'hold the regime accountable and to support the Cuban people.'
, whom Biden served as vice president, the senior administration official said that the steps were focused on improving humanitarian support and empowering U.S.-Cuba connections in line with Washington's interests.
And while the Biden administration has rejected the"maximum pressure" approach on other foreign policy areas such as Iran, the official said the current agenda very much planned to keep the pressure up against Havana. "And again," the official added,"the president's direction has been to find ways to hold the regime accountable and to support the Cuban people and that's been what has informed this policy."
While challenging Trump on the campaign trail in September 2020, Biden said he would"try to reverse the failed Trump policies that inflicted harm on Cubans and their families." But little progress was made on this front and, in July of last year, a series of rare protests in Cuba in response to economic hardships exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic prompted an even tougher approach by Biden.that U.S.
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