Donald Trump came into his second term in office proclaiming his intention to tighten the United States’ grip on Latin America, proudly invoking the Monroe Doctrine. As part of this agenda, one of the administration’s earliest foreign policy moves was to strengthen the brutal, longstanding sanctions against the island of Cuba.
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