Cuban female entrepreneurs: "We are a political football".

A group of Cuban women who have been running the Dador clothing store in Havana since 2016 are wary of the measures approved by the US Department of the Treasury last May to support entrepreneurs on the island.

"We are a political football at the end of it all," lamented Lauren Fajardo, one of the partners of the venture, in an interview conducted by the AFP agency and published by the El Financiero news website on Facebook.

The Cuban woman questioned the implementation of the new measures approved by Washington, which allow Cuban independent entrepreneurs to open, maintain, and use bank accounts in the United States remotely, even through online payment platforms, because although they would facilitate the importation of materials for their business, such as fabrics, she and her partners feel insecure due to the existing gaps in them.

"Yes, they were approved, but who is going to comply? Which banks, companies, or platforms are going to comply with the new measures approved by the Department of the Treasury?" pointed out Fajardo.

The doubts of this Cuban woman and her partners are justified because in November, the presidential elections will be held in the United States, and the possible return of Donald Trump to the White House raises fears of a hardening of the policy towards Cuba, undoing Joe Biden's initiative.

The clothing store Dador opened in 2016 amidst the reduction of trade sanctions imposed on Cuba during the administration of Barack Obama, amid the normalization of relations between Washington and Havana.

However, these businesswomen experienced first-hand Trump's policy by reversing that flexibility.

On the other hand, President Miguel Díaz-Canel described the new measures by the Biden administration as "a subversive design outlined in known strategies, which considers the manipulation and use of this sector as a potential agent of change in the country."

The Cuban ruler, through his account on X, also considered that the measures "are limited, restrictive, and do not touch the fundamental issue," alluding to the embargo on Cuba.

However, the successful Cuban American entrepreneur Sergio Pino warned last May that the Havana government will set traps to take advantage of these economic measures approved by the Biden Administration.

However, Pino considers that the Cuban people can benefit. "The regime in Havana will try to infiltrate. Of course there will be traps, but these measures continue to be something positive," the millionaire told Univisión Noticias.