{"id":4134,"date":"2026-07-14T17:39:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T17:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propertyrelocationusa.com\/?p=4134"},"modified":"2026-07-14T17:39:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T17:39:30","slug":"strangled-to-death-lawmakers-return-from-cuba-with-a-grim-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propertyrelocationusa.com\/?p=4134","title":{"rendered":"‘Strangled to death’: Lawmakers return from Cuba with a grim warning"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As the Trump administration announced a new round of sanctions on Cuba\u2019s tourism ministry, energy companies, and other entities on Monday, four Democratic members of Congress returned from a trip to the island and described how the oil blockade the US has imposed there for nearly six months \u201cis producing indiscriminate pain for the most vulnerable Cubans.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cAs elected lawmakers tasked with oversight of US foreign policy, we traveled to Havana to meet with Cubans of all walks of life and political perspectives to hear about the hardships the Trump administration\u2019s maximum pressure policies are creating for Cuban citizens,\u201d said Reps. Delia Ram\u00edrez (D-Ill.), Teresa Leger-Fern\u00e1ndez (D-NM), Mark Pocan, (D-Wis.), and Maxine Dexter (D-Ore.). \u201cIn our meetings with religious leaders, entrepreneurs, civil society organizations, humanitarian groups, medical professionals, and farmers, everybody we heard from… agreed on one thing: that they are being strangled to death under the current executive orders and longstanding economic blockade.\u201d<\/p>\n

The four Democrats traveled to Cuba last Thursday and spent several days meeting with local leaders, touring the streets of Havana, and speaking with President Miguel D\u00edaz-Canel as the country grapples with the effects of President Donald Trump\u2019s January executive order that baselessly claimed Cuba poses an \u201cextraordinary\u201d threat to US national security and threatened tariffs against any country that provides oil to the communist country.<\/p>\n

The president had already cut off Cuba\u2019s main energy supply by invading Venezuela, abducting its president and charging him with drug trafficking, and taking control of its vast oil reserves.<\/p>\n

The lawmakers described how the energy blockade is \u201ccontributing to nationwide electrical blackouts\u2014including one during our trip\u2014buildups of trash on street corners; severe shortages of food, medicine, and public transportation; and widening inequality on the island.\u201d<\/p>\n