Proponents claim that Cuba’s agricultural imports from the U.S. could double this year to $500 million. They have increased by 72 percent in the first five months of this fiscal year, though from a low level. Nearly all the increase has come in one category, poultry meat and products, excluding eggs. Advocates of relational effort with Havana argue the reason is Cuba’s policy reforms that emphasize strengthening the sector and increasing foreign investment. Though if this were true, Cuba’s poultry industry would not be stagnant and food imports would become less necessary.  Cuba did surprisingly abstain from voting censure of Russia in the UN General Assembly on the issue of invading Ukraine. Particularly since Russi...

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