This initiative is in response to the dire economic situation in Cuba, where the economy shrank by 11 percent last year — Cuba’s worst economic downturn since the early 1990s, when the country was left reeling from the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Eastern bloc. The present economic meltdown is largely a result of the COVID-induced shutdown of the tourist industry and a tightening of the embargo under Trump.

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