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Las imágenes de cubanos cargando cubos de agua por las calles reflejan una crisis profunda. Aunque las autoridades atribuyen la situación actual al llamado «cerco energético», los problemas de abastecimiento, las fugas y el deterioro de la infraestructura hidráulica llevan décadas afectando a la población.
To avert catastrophe, Cuba must make a deal with the United States—one that includes “concessions substantial enough for Trump to sell as a victory,” argue @MJ_Busta and @ric23.
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"WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate passed legislation to fund President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement agencies early Friday, after weeks of delays and fierce backlash to an unrelated $1.776 billion settlement fund that threatened to derail the bill.
Senators voted 52-47 to pass the $70 billion legislation to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol for the next three years, through the end of Trump’s term, after Democrats blocked the money for months. The bill will now head to the House, which is expected to take it up next week.
The final vote came just before 5 a.m., after Republicans narrowly defeated multiple attempts by members of both parties to add language to the bill that would permanently ban Trump’s settlement fund for allies who believe they’ve been politically persecuted."
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The Senate voted to fund immigration enforcement agencies for the rest of President Trump’s term after a revolt by Republican senators held up the bill’s passage for weeks.
The bill still must pass the House before it reaches Trump’s desk. https://t.co/iaJV1KKy7H
At dawn this morning, the Senate voted 47-52 not to advance a Section 702 reauthorization that would have given the Trump administration warrantless access to Americans’ communications. It’s an interim victory… but it’s crucial to take the right lessons from it. 1/11
After all that drama, Senate passes reconciliation bill with $70 billion more for immigration enforcement with Murkowski as only GOP senator who voted no in the end
All efforts to block or redirect the DOJ “anti-weaponization” fund were rejected
The Cuban regime must make immediate economic and political reforms. We are asking very simple things:
-Open the economy,
-Free political prisoners,
-Stop treating private citizens as a threat, and
-Stop blaming America for the misery produced by Havana and its failed policies.
🚨Cuban Individuals and Entities sanctioned today by OFAC :
➡️MIGUEL DIAZ-CANEL BERMUDEZ
➡️ALEJANDRO CASTRO ESPIN (a.k.a. "El Tuerto", Raúl Castro’s son)
➡️LIS CUESTA PERAZA.
➡️MANUEL ANIDO CUESTA.
➡️RAÚL ALEJANDRO CASTRO CALIS (Alejandro Castro’s son)
ENTITIES:
➡️AMISTUR CUBA SA.
➡️CUBAN INSTITUTE OF FRIENDSHIP WITH THE PEOPLES).
➡️COMMITTEES FOR THE DEFENSE OF THE REVOLUTION.
➡️CUBAN INSTITUTE OF FRIENDSHIP WITH THE PEOPLES
➡️MINERA LA VICTORIA SA
➡️MINISTRY OF THE REVOLUTIONARY ARMED FORCES OF CUBA
#Scoop@StateDept is sanctioning #Cuba’s leader, Miguel Díaz-Canel, and his family, along with Alejandro Castro Espín, the son of Raúl Castro, and several other Cuban entities, as pressure mounts on Cuban leaders to undertake democratic reforms.
https://t.co/rMRG7I56eJ
Reporter: Are your sanctions on Cuba meant to accelerate its collapse?
Trump: No, we just want them to be a nicely run country that can feed its people.
BREAKING: The US has sanctioned Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel, adding him as a Specially Designated National (SDN), implementing severe financial restrictions
BREAKING: President Trump's former national security adviser John Bolton is expected to plead guilty over mishandling classified documents, sources familiar with the matter told @ABC News.
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