Cuban leader Ernesto Limia Díaz is a historian and writer. Here he provides historical context to the recent revelations by Cuban president Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermudez that Havana is holding talks with the Trump administration after Washington imposed a blockade of petroleum shipments to Cuba and threatened the overthrow of the Caribbean nation’s revolutionary government.
It would be a lot easier for smaller countries to hold strong if the rest of BRICS didn’t abandon them at the earliest opportunity every single time the US applied pressure. Cuba is not really receiving much help against the crippling US blockade.