A mural in Havana. Cuban-American artist and writer Coco Fusco says that Trump’s label will make “cultural exchanges that would bring Cubans to the US or Americans to Cuba far more difficult” Yerson Olivares on Unsplash
During its final days, the administration of former US president Donald Trump classified Cuba as a “state sponsor of terrorism”, a controversial ruling that reverses the Obama-era decision to remove it from that list in 2015 in an effort to improve relations between the countries. The label will likely make things even more difficult for the cultural sector in Cuba, where artists have long battled against oppression and censorship by the Castro regime that has only grown more conspicuous in recent months.