{"id":606847,"date":"2021-07-30T12:51:35","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T16:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=606847"},"modified":"2021-07-30T12:51:39","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T16:51:39","slug":"bidens-nominee-to-key-latin-american-diplomatic-body-loved-obamas-cuba-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-nominee-to-key-latin-american-diplomatic-body-loved-obamas-cuba-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden\u2019s Nominee To Key Latin American Diplomatic Body Loved Obama\u2019s Cuba Policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbidens-nominee-to-key-latin-american-diplomatic-body-loved-obamas-cuba-policies%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=606847&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Obama-Biden-2-scaled-1.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>President Joe Biden nominated Frank Mora to serve as Ambassador to the Organization of American States.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Mora \u2014 a Cuban-American who <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2021\/07\/29\/president-biden-announces-six-key-nominations-3\/\"><span>works<\/span><\/a><span> as an international relations professor at Florida International University \u2014 would help to lead the American response to widespread anti-government protests in Cuba. Virtually every nation in the Western hemisphere is a member of the OAS \u2014 a body formed in the late 1940s as a hedge against the global spread of communism \u2014 except for Cuba, which was ejected in 1962.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Mora, however, is facing backlash for what many critics deem to be a soft approach to Cuba policy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>For instance, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) \u2014 another Cuban-American \u2014 tweeted: \u201cNominating Frank Mora, an outspoken supporter of engagement with the regime in Cuba, to be the US Amb to the OAS is yet another slap in the face to Cubans demanding freedom.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marcorubio\/status\/1420887769828757515\"><span>https:\/\/twitter.com\/marcorubio\/status\/1420887769828757515<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>Indeed, Mora has voiced support for former President Barack Obama\u2019s willingness to expand diplomatic relations with the Cuban regime and increase American access to tourism on the island.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As Mora wrote in a 2016 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/theglobalamericans.org\/2016\/12\/5882\/\"><span>op-ed<\/span><\/a><span> about potential Cuba doctrine under the Trump administration:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"23\">\n<p><i><span>So, it seems like we will soon return to the \u201cfeel-good\u201d policies of taking punitive action against a dictatorship, even though those policies proved singularly ineffective and counterproductive during the 55 years they were in place. As a result, we\u2019re likely go down this road again, despite numerous studies that show unilateral economic sanctions almost never produce the desired effect, especially if the objective is regime change.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>President Obama changed the tired script by engaging the Cuban people directly. By increasing opportunities for travel and communication with the island, the changes provided Cubans with the tools and a new relationship with the American people to enhance opportunities for change on the island, albeit gradually. In the end, the policy was about acquiring leverage. Now it seems like a Trump administration, for domestic political considerations, will weaken U.S. leverage and undermine a policy of engagement with the Cuban people that was clearly contributing to tensions and anxiety within the regime.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>The Biden administration recently <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/meaningless-marco-rubio-blasts-biden-cuba-sanctions\"><span>unveiled<\/span><\/a><span> sanctions against the Cuban \u201cBlack Berets\u201d special forces and Cuban defense minister \u00c1lvaro L\u00f3pez Miera. The move only relates to assets held within the United States, which neither party currently possesses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Rubio remarked that the sanctions are \u201cis the kind of symbolic but meaningless measure we will continue to see\u201d as long as Biden is \u201cbeing advised by people who were drinking mojitos in Havana in 2015 to celebrate the Obama policy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden nominated Frank Mora to serve as Ambassador to the Organization of American States.Mora \u2014 a Cuban-American who works as an international relations professor at Florida International University &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-606847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}