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In early November last year, Maribel Oliver heard the sad news that a friend of hers back in Cuba had died.
The 57-year old, who emigrated to the US 15 years ago and now lives in Texas, immediately got together with another friend to send money to help the family.
It took just a few hours for their 100 US dollar remittance to reach the deceased s family via Western Union, well in time to help pay for the funeral expenses.
But changes to the law introduced by former president Donald Trump just days later have effectively cut Cubans like Oliver off from their friends and relatives back home, leaving them unable to supply the remittances that have long formed a crucial part of the island’s economy.
Holding Olympics in Beijing inappropriate: Pompeo shanghaisun.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from shanghaisun.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Washington [US], March 8 (ANI): Former US Secretary of State, Michael Pompeo, has deemed it "completely inappropriate" to hold Olympics in Beijing, while the Chinese Communist Party(CCP) is committing crimes against democracies around the world.
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This talk examines the rise of the “Xinjiang Problem” in Sino-US relations and the recent events involving the Uyghur in China’s Northwest Region. Some have suggested that China has already engaged in a “genocide” in Xinjiang as early as the July 5, 2009 riots in Urumqi. While the state media attribute the Uyghur activism to radical Islam and separatism, none of the protestors have called for jihad or an independent “Eastern Turkistan,” and the former US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo on his last day in office formally listed the treatment of the Uyghur as “genocide.” President Biden’s administration has not backed away from this designation. Internationally, the Uyghur diaspora helped to call global attention to the “education camps” that Chinese media initially denied, then attempted to re-shape as “vocational centers” through carefully edited reporting and selective coverage. This talk sugge