Washington/Prensa Latina
US President Joe Biden has extended for another year the Trading with the Enemy Act, a 1917 regulation under which the blockade against Cuba was imposed, considered the longest in history.
“I hereby determine that the continued exercise of such authorities with respect to Cuba for one year is in the national interest of the United States,” Biden said in the brief memo sent to the Treasury Department, published in the Federal Register.
The text stressed that “therefore, consistent with the authority conferred upon me by section 101(b) of Public Law 95-223, I am continuing for one year, until September 14, 2025, the exercise of those authorities with respect to Cuba, as implemented in the Cuban Assets Control Regulations, 31 CFR Part 515.”
The Trading with the Enemy Act, enacted under President Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921) during the First World War (1914-1918), empowered the government in power in Washington to restrict trade activities with any nation it considered an adversary.
Based on this legislation, on February 3, 1962, Democratic President John F. Kennedy issued Executive Order 3447, which officially began an economic, commercial and financial blockade that has survived 11 White House administrations.
Biden’s extension of this law with respect to Cuba will expire on September 14, 2025.
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