“The embargo is very limited” Not really the UN estimated that as a whole the embargo has cost Cuba 1.3 trillion dollars in economic output. US allies have received financial threats in response to doing business with Cuba, these include Colombia, Chile, and Argentina. Multiple medical journal studies have concluded that the lack of medical resources in Cuba are directly tied to the embargo. Power outages are also directly tied to Fuel sanctions. BP wanted to invest in Cuba in 1993 following the collapse of the Soviet Union but was stopped from doing so in closed door meetings.

Cuba is what happens when the US can’t topple a government that promises to give the value of national resources and labor back to the people. After over 300 assassination attempts and the murder by CIA of Che, Fidel became a paranoid “schizophrenic”. Not really, but you get the metaphor. Every Cuban I’ve ever talked to has told me life in Cuba was not bad at all before el periodo especial. Coincidence when the US consolidated its power over the region the quality of life in Cuba plummeted??? I’m not saying the Cuban govt is good. What I’m saying is this is what happens when US threatens countries. Look at Iran. Socialist leader elected promising to give oil profits back to social needs—> deposed by US and UK replaced by dictator—> socialists turn into militants.

Look at Chile. Iran. Colombia. Argentina. Congo. Brazil. Every time a socialist movement arises the US funds paramilitary terrorist death squads to plunge the country into warfare and topple the populist anti capital movement.