HAVANA (Reuters) – The Trump administration has bought Marriott International to unwind hotel operations in Communist-run Cuba, a company spokesperson informed Reuters, extinguishing what had been a sign of the U.S.-Cuban detente.
The hotel Four Points by Sheraton is seen in Havana, Cuba, June 5,2020 REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini
Starwood Hotels, now owned by Marriott, 4 years ago ended up being the first U.S. hotel company to sign a deal with Cuba because the 1959 transformation in the middle of the normalization of relations pursued by former President Barack Obama.
But the administration of President Donald Trump has actually unraveled that detente, tightening the decades-old U.S. trade embargo on Cuba and stating it wants to push the island into democratic reform and to stop supporting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
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