Belgium to Shutter Havana Embassy

Belgium’s Foreign Minister Maxime Prévot announced last week that his country will close its embassy in Havana. Cuba expressed "surprise and disappointment" about the decision, as the two nations have had continuous relations for over a century. Prévot attributed the decision to the way “diplomacy [is] becoming more transactional,” and how "tariff and trade wars are forcing us to rethink our network of partners in order to diversify our sphere of action and influence."