Havana, Oct 6 (Prensa Latina) When ex-President Barack Obama started to apply his new policy to Cuba and accepted the failure of the previous one, he could not imagine his successor would start to reverse the process.
On December 17, 2014 (17D), Cuban President Raul Castro and his peer of the U.S. announced to the world the decision to reestablish the diplomatic links and start a long and difficult road to normalization.
During several months, work meetings followed in Havana and Washington among officials of both countries, dozens of visits of congress members, businesspeople and cultural personalities ensued.
Also an increased amount of U.S. citizens visited here, anxious to know Cuba, despite that tourism is still banned by the laws of the economic, commercial and financial blockade are in place for over half a century.
Now, almost three years after the 17D, Obama's successor adopts rush and unacceptable measures regarding Cuba, by sending home most of its diplomats in Havana and expelling 15 officials of the Cuban embassy in Washington.
In fact, both missions were left, regarding personnel, smaller than when they were Interest Sections, alleging supposed incidents that affected the health of several U.S. diplomats based in Havana.
A rapid vision to the precedents on this issue, reveals that in the recent past other administrations used against Cuba several pretexts to maintain a low profile in relations or even worse, responding to domestic policy requirements or international circumstances.
Thus were exposed to public opinion different accusations: supposed plans of the island's government related to the so-called cybernetic war to attack key infrastructures in the United States, allegations on probes of biological weapons, among others.
Each one of these lies generated a categorical rejection by Havana authorities and were destroyed by reality, besides that different international experts, even some from the U.S. connoisseurs of these matters spoke out against these biased assertions.
Really, now with their new actions, described as rushed by Cuba, president Donald Trump, made true some of the promises made to ultra-right Cuban American sectors during the election campaign prior to 2016 elections.
This new announcement takes place three months after his speech of June 16 this year, when under great pressure fromn the anti-Cubans announced from Miami, Florida, the fundamental basis of its policy toward the Caribbean island.
That day Trump abolished the directive that Obama emitted on October 14, 2016, titled 'Normalization of relations between the United States and Cuba' with the purpose of consolidating changes adopted in the policy toward the island.
But all this, although very important and representing a setback in the nexes between both countries, could result in the opinion of experts, in the beginning of a whole reversion process of the bilateral links, whose final point is very difficult to forecast.
The eventual reinsertion of Cuba in the illegitimate list of nations that supposedly support terrorism -where the Caribbean island never should have been included-, the invention of incidents in the migratory sphere or involving Cuban representatives abroad or maneuvering with counter-revolutionary factions financed by Washington, are also in the array of options that would serve as pretext to worsen the situation.
In this context, some specialists consulted by Prensa Latina expressed hope there is a solution to this problem, but all the same alerted the possibility of ludicrous actions toward Cuba, at the style of groundless accusations on the incredible 'attacks on health' of U.S. representatives.
Experts agree that now as before, Trump threatens the Caribbean island and does not listen to the majority of U.S. citizens in favor of the normalization of relations.
He also disregards advices of congresspeople, academicians, businesspeoplwe and specialists, who alert him private or publicly that his confrontational policy with Havana is not feasible and contrary to the interests of the United States.