Interview: Minnesota will still engage with Cuba despite Trump setback | Reuters

Interview: Minnesota will still engage with Cuba despite Trump setback | Reuters Reuters By Sarah Marsh | HAVANA HAVANA Minnesota's government and businesses will continue to engage with Cuba in the areas they can, like agricultural trade, despite U.S. President Donald Trump's partial rollback of the detente, Lieutenant Governor Tina Smith said on Thursday.The first U.S. state representative to make an official visit to Communist-run Cuba since Trump's announcement on Friday, Smith said authorities there were worried about the setback to bilateral relations.Leading a bipartisan trade delegation from Minnesota, she said she was therefore glad to carry the message that there was still plenty of support for continuing to normalize relations."There is no denying the actions Trump took last Friday are a real setback," Smith, a Democrat, said in an interview in the gardens of Havana's iconic Hotel Nacional. The post Interview: Minnesota will still engage with Cuba despite Trump setback | Reuters appeared first on Firstpost. 1