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Quick takes on the new Cuba sanctions EO out today: 1. The new Cuba sanctions are potentially very broad. Basically any non-U.S. person or company doing any business in/with Cuba could be sanctioned. Initial focuses are businesses involved in the energy, defense, mining, finance, and security sectors, but these can be expanded. 2. In many respects, the new EO resembles EO 14024 from 2021, which created a broad authority to sanction Russia. (As a partial drafter of that EO, it is interesting to see some of the provisions carried over here). 3. Most designations will be status-based, e.g., "operated in X sector," or "is a Cuban official," rather than requiring the government to prove specific conduct, though there are also conduct-related designations, for, eg, corruption. 4. The EO puts the State Department in the lead for making sanctions designations. Trump expanded State's role in sanctions designations during his first term, and this is consistent with that, as well as with Rubio's interest in Cuba. (State has long had a role in specific sanctions designations, and a critical policy and diplomatic role on all sanctions, but Trump expanded the designations authorities given to State). 5. The EO gives the Trump Administration a fair amount of easy-to-deploy firepower to drive remaining international businesses out of Cuba. The questions will be in implementation. For example, will Trump sanction a Chinese firm installing renewable energy in Cuba? (Cuban renewables have been growing given the oil crisis).
En EEUU, en la cadena de rosquillas Krispy Kreme, donde una docena de donuts cuesta 22 dรณlares, tiran a la basura todas los que no venden y llenan el contenedor con cientos de ellos. Esto es el capitalismo, prefieren tirar masivamente la comida a bajarla de precio, prefieren cerrar la basura con llave y llamar a la policรญa contra los que buscan en los contenedores en vez de donarlo a los pobres. El sistema de la avaricia y el egoรญsmo que prefiere verte morir de hambre a rebajar el precio de sus productos unos dรณlares, no puede sobrevivir si se quiere que la humanidad perdure.
Iranian jews speak up: โWe are Iranian jews, not Jewish Iranians.โ โThe safest place for jews is in Iran.โ
On this day in 1975, the US๐บ๐ธ begins Operation Frequent Wind to evacuate its citizens as North Vietnamese communist forces moved in to liberate Saigon. The US war against Vietnam๐ป๐ณ is estimated to have killed more than 3 million people, with half of the deaths being Vietnamese civilians. During the war, the US launched Operation Ranch Hand, spraying South Vietnamese forests with Agent Orange to destroy foliage with was used by the Viet Cong. The Red Cross of Vietnam estimates 1 million were disabled or suffered health problems due to exposure. North Vietnamese communist forces and the Viet Minh eventually succeeded in liberating the country from US occupation and reuniting the country.
Three Italian partisan women after the Liberation. Milan, April 1945.
