Our Tuesday Sociedad Media Now newsletter covers what a restoration of complete U.S.-Colombia relations would like as Rubio announces new sanctions on Cuban oil behemoth.
The U.S.-Colombia Reset Starts August 7 — Here’s What It Actually Looks Like
Abelardo de la Espriella takes office August 7 with Washington’s full agenda already mapped and documented — coca fumigation resumed, extraditions accelerated, Belt and Road exited, Shield of the Americas joined, fracking reopened, and Israel’s embassy moved to Jerusalem.
But a razor-thin 0.94 percent mandate, a legislature where Petro’s coalition holds the most seats, a preferred governing style of emergency decrees that his own Constitutional Court may strike down, foreign direct investment down 33%, and a legal history defending Maduro’s U.S.-indicted financier Alex Saab can complicate the very bilateral relationship he has promised to rebuild with Washington starting day one.
Washington Sanctions Cuba’s Oil Company — and Experts Warn It Will Hit Ordinary Cubans Hardest
HAVANA — The Trump administration sanctioned Cuba’s state oil company CUPET on June 11 — the fourth round of Cuba designations in five weeks, following the sanctioning of GAESA, 11 regime officials, and President Díaz-Canel and his family — as the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights warned that children are dying because doctors lack access to essential medical supplies, a U.S. Cuba expert warned Washington had entered the “indiscriminate cruelty phase” of its sanctions campaign.
President Trump, asked whether the measures were meant to accelerate Cuba’s collapse, told journalists the island had “a beautiful piece of land” that “could have beautiful resorts.”
