Cuba: People hope to get visa to United States after Biden's appointment

Former President Donald Trump took more than 200 measures to extend the decades-old American trade and travel ban over Cuba, largely replacing former President Barack Obama's historic 2014 move to normalize ties between Cold War enemies.

Trump's policy towards Cuba, which included restrictions on travel and travel and tightening of borders, further jeopardized the island's struggling economy and deepened divisions between families on both sides of the Florida Straits.

Biden, who was Obama's vice president, declared during the 2020 presidential campaign that he would reverse policies on Cuba that "have harmed the Cuban people and have done nothing to advance democracy and human rights."

Cuba's top diplomat Carlos Fernandez de Cossio with the US said Biden's pledge suggested he wanted to resume where he and Obama left.

He said that everything could be reversed if the government had it, in an interview with Reuters, reiterating Cuba's stance that it would not make political concessions in exchange for a relaxation of sanctions, but a mutually beneficial conversation.

Fernandez de Cosio said that it was positive that Biden's team consisted of many people with experience negotiating with Cuba and who would not be taken through simplified narratives.

"This team has more experience than any other in the last 60 years," he said.

Cubans hope for visas

One of the top hopes of many Cubans is for the United States to reopen its embassy in Havana, which was closed after a rash of unexplained ailments to US diplomats, and the speed of visa processing again to start.

Angel Garbe, 28, applied for a US visa two years ago, but one of them is waiting for an appointment to take it. American visas are being distributed to Cubic in Guyana, and there are currently no flights between Cuba and Guyana due to the coronavirus pandemic.

"I was not able to meet my son," said Garbe, whose son was born in the US five months ago. "It's hard." Garbe stated.

Cubans working in the all-important tourism sector are also hopeful that Biden will extend a trip to Cuba, which was deported during the Obama era, and promote a private sector with breakfast and breakfast businesses and restaurants across the island Had given.

More remotely, the prospect is Biden, whose Democratic Party, now effectively controlling both chambers of the US Congress, could lift Embargo over Cuba, Cuban former diplomat Carlos Aljugare said.