It's decades past time to end the Cuba blockade

Imagine how much better things could be, if the U.S. would maintain only friendly, supportive relationships with small countries. That could be done without being seen as "endorsing" authoritarian governance, if the U.S. would maintain political leadership that was a lot quicker on its own intellectual feet.

The corporate media have been bashing the Cuban government in response to the recent protests in Cuba, while President Joe Biden claims, “We stand with the Cuban people.” But they ignore or minimize the leading cause of economic suffering in Cuba: the U.S.’s illegal and punishing economic blockade that Biden has left in place...

“The embargo is absurdly cruel and, like too many other U.S. policies targeting Latin Americans, the cruelty is the point,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) said in a statement. “I outright reject the Biden administration’s defense of the embargo. It is never acceptable for us to use cruelty as a point of leverage against every day people.” - Truthout