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push for punitive Cuban policies and sanctions, but the overwhelming majority of American’s agree to re-establishing diplomatic relations with Cuba.27
Today, in the wake of the 2020 election with President-elect Joe Biden poised to take the helm, he is expected to try the Democrats hand once again at normalizing relations with Cuba. Making campaign promises to reverse Trump-era policies that “have inflicted harm on the Cuban people and done nothing to advance democracy and human rights,” Biden received a welcome- tweet from Cuba’s current president, Miguel Diaz-Canel. Congratulating him on his victory, he stated, “the people of the United States have chosen a new direction. We believe in the possibility of constructive bilateral relations respecting one another’s differences.”28
If President-elect Joe Biden doesn’t take a page from President Kennedy’s playbook, perhaps there remains a glimmer of hope that the two neighbors can one day share an accord of peace and coexistence. Looking forward, both nations can put the dark days of the Bay of Pigs Invasion–and the lasting hostility it spawned between the nations with the tightened embargo and the Cuban Missile Crisis–behind them. Leaving the economic and emotional embargo that continues to estrange so many people in the past in favor of pursuing a policy of building bridges instead of blockades, Cuban-American relations may yet be amended.
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27 “December 2016 Political Survey.” Pew Research Center - U.S. Politics & Policy.
28 “Cuba's President Acknowledges Biden's U.S. Election Win,” Reuters. November 8, 2020.
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