Akash Sama­roo

De­spite com­mit­ting to pro­vide hu­man­i­tar­i­an as­sis­tance to the Cuban peo­ple amid their on­go­ing cri­sis, Trinidad and To­ba­go re­mains firm in its po­si­tion not to sup­port calls to end the Unit­ed States block­ade, which has been cit­ed as a con­tribut­ing fac­tor to the coun­try’s hard­ships.

On March 21 in Bo­go­ta, Trinidad and To­ba­go, along with sev­er­al Latin Amer­i­can coun­tries, dis­tanced it­self from a Com­mu­ni­ty of Latin Amer­i­can and Caribbean States (CELAC) de­c­la­ra­tion urg­ing an end to the US em­bar­go on Cu­ba.