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Interview with Esteban Morales Scholar and specialist in U. S.
Obama and the blockade againts Cuba
He doesn愒 handle the blockade in the way Bush did,
or in the way other presidents have done.
The difference rests in the fact...
that he handles the blockade in a right-left maneuver.
In a double track.
From the viewpoint of civil society...
he deals with it in a, say, market oriented subversive sense.
That is, to give to Cuban civil society...
and to Miami-Cuba family relations...
a series of flexibilities,
trying to achieve a declared goal of his administration...
which is to bring Cuban society apart from the government,
to separate the conditions in which the average Cuban citizen...
lives from the Cuban government.
That愀 why, from that social perspective,
he is flexible as to travels, remittances,
the size and content of packages,
flights, number of airports to be used in these travels.
That is to say, he tries to follow a policy...
aimed at diverting civil society...
from the political guidance of the government.
Nevertheless, when we observe...
the use he makes of the blockade as to government itself,
we realize that it is very strong,
violent.
In the sense that he uses the same violent measures...
of economic and financial persecution.
There are two facets,
whereby he handles the issue in two parallel tracks.
Trying to achieve a separation,
trying to make the government be the one who says no to...
so as to make it look bad in the eyes of the population,
while making things easier for society.
I personally see that as beneficial,
the fact that there are more remittances,
better relations with the U.S.
can be beneficial for Cuban society or for those relatives in Miami,
but that is not his goal.
His goal is that of putting pressure on the Cuban government,
to bring about a separation,
to try to give to Cuban society that sort of material contribution
which the government is unable to provide at this moment.
That愀 why I say the blockade is divided into two sides.
But with only one goal which subversive,
to find the dynamics of regime change.