{"id":607,"date":"2024-10-24T15:37:15","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T15:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fabian-sanchez.com\/?p=607"},"modified":"2025-05-22T03:30:35","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T03:30:35","slug":"the-inhumane-side-of-geo-political-sanctions-as-western-union-exits-cuba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fabian-sanchez.com\/?p=607","title":{"rendered":"The Inhumane Side of Geo-Political Sanctions as Western Union Exits Cuba"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"607\" class=\"elementor elementor-607\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-41a397a e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"41a397a\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0731b03 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"0731b03\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;htmega_fe&quot;:&quot;no&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The Associated Press on November 24, 2020 carried the story of Western Unions exit from Cuba. Its<br \/>opening salvo read \u201cWestern Union closed its 407 locations across Cuba on Monday, a sanctions-driven<br \/>move that will leave thousands bereft of remittances on an island that depends heavily on them \u2014 or<br \/>force them to use less reliable ways to bring in money.\u201d<br \/><br \/>Read the full post: <a href=\"https:\/\/fabian-sanchez.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/The-Inhumane-Side-of-Sanctions-as-Western-Union-Exits-Cuba.pdf\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-620\" src=\"https:\/\/fabian-sanchez.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/pdf.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"122\" height=\"122\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fabian-sanchez.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/pdf.png 225w, https:\/\/fabian-sanchez.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/pdf-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 122px) 100vw, 122px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press on November 24, 2020 carried the story of Western Unions exit from Cuba. Itsopening salvo read \u201cWestern Union closed its 407 locations across Cuba on Monday, a sanctions-drivenmove that will leave thousands bereft of remittances on an island that depends heavily on them \u2014 orforce them to use less reliable ways to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-amlfundamentals","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fabian-sanchez.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/2024-10-24-10_12_51-ChatGPT.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabian-sanchez.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabian-sanchez.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabian-sanchez.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabian-sanchez.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabian-sanchez.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=607"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/fabian-sanchez.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":627,"href":"https:\/\/fabian-sanchez.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions\/627"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabian-sanchez.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabian-sanchez.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabian-sanchez.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabian-sanchez.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}