WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden on Monday ordered the State Department to set up a working group to review US remittance policy to ensure that the money Cuban Americans send home goes directly to them without being cut by the regime. goes into the hands of the families.
He also ordered a review of the feasibility of increasing staff at the US embassy in Havana. The White House hopes an increase in staffing can help improve civil society participation following one of the communist island’s largest anti-government demonstrations in recent memory.
The action was detailed by a senior administration official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the Biden administration had yet to publicly announce the effort.
It comes a little more than a week after thousands of Cubans took to the streets of Havana and other cities on the island to protest food shortages and high prices during the coronavirus crisis. This is a level of desperation that has not been seen in Cuba in more than 60 years.
Biden is also calling on the administration to work with Congress to identify options to make the Internet more accessible on the island. The regime quickly cut off Internet access to prevent images of the protest from being broadcast to the world.
The official said the administration will also consider working with international organizations to increase humanitarian aid, while the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Asset Control will explore sanctioning Cuban officials for human rights violations against peaceful protesters in Cuba.
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