For starters, how the fuck do you enforce an embargo without the threat of violence, and secondly I love how me and all my communist friends are expected to have a PhD in world history and economics while your average liberal can cite two state department links and a CIA funded NGO and call it a day.
So… food and medicine are blocked, with the exception of NGO aid?
People are so fucking stupid, like, dumb shit redditors are like “um cuba isn’t being blockaded” because technically other countries “can” trade with Cuba
But the terms of the embargo put a massive economic incentive on shipping to not do that! You can go to Cuba to make money or you can go to the U.S. to make money but you can’t fucking do both within like the same YEAR, so of course ships aren’t going to go to fucking cuba!
These dumbfucks are usually neoliberals and is like jesus christ, this effect is logically consistent with your own brain dead ideology, how do you not get it???
And that’s on top of one idf the secretaries of inter American affairs stating basically word for word “people love Castro so we’re going to starve them so they revolt” in a fucking memo that is PUBLIC RECORD right before the fucking embargo got put into place
The embargo on Cuba exempts food and medicines.
U.S. SANCTIONS ON CUBA AND VENEZUELA HAMPER THE GLOBAL FIGHT AGAINST COVID-19
Venezuelan authorities say U.S. sanctions are to blame.
“The news that Venezuela’s last 4 payments to COVAX have been blocked—thus preventing the Venezuelan people from accessing the vaccine distribution mechanism—confirms once again the criminal nature of the unilateral, illegal, and coercive measures that the United States has imposed on Venezuela,” Arreaza told The Intercept in a statement.
A spokesperson for the U.S. State Department rejected the notion that the U.S. bears responsibility, noting that "sanctions on Venezuela include broad exceptions for humanitarian goods but that banks sometimes delay transactions on their own.
gaslighting.
One of the things I’ll continue to say I liked about Obama was the gestures towards lightening up on Cuba. Not that they’d add up to anything, but hell, it seemed like the cold war status quo might get left behind to me at that point.
We denied them money, then said you can buy our food. Agricultural machinery? Nah they can just take donations from CIA front groups.
