Cuban credit institutions are again accepting US dollars as cash to credit their customers’ accounts. In this respect Wrote Granma newspaper citing a message from the Central Bank of Cuba.
“From now on, financial and banking institutions will accept cash deposits in US dollars into their bank accounts, and that currency will remain the same in foreign exchange transactions in the market.”
As noted in Bank of Cuba, officials took such a step in the face of continued pressure from the United States. Beginning to accept the dollar allowed “the revival of tourism and the gradual restoration of industrial activity.”
Banks in Cuba stopped accepting cash dollars for crediting customer accounts in June 2021
In the second half of March, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken declarationThat the United States has yet to remove Cuba from the list of states that support terrorism. The United States first placed Cuba on this list in March 1982 because of its support for revolutionary movements in Spanish-speaking countries.