Al Jazeera Discovers US Sanctions Impact Cuba, Decades Late
Al Jazeera reports on Cuba's once world-class healthcare system 'strangled by US sanctions.' While their focus on the humanitarian fallout is commendable, it glosses over decades of consistent US policy—a policy designed precisely to inflict such suffering. The 1992 Cuba Democracy Act explicitly aimed to 'hasten the transition to a market-oriented democracy' by tightening the embargo, which, in
plain English, means choking the economy until the populace revolts. This isn't an unforeseen consequence, it's the stated objective, upheld by successive administrations. One might wonder why reports highlighting the human cost of this deliberate strategy only receive widespread attention when geopolitical winds shift. This 'strangling' is simply the sanctions working as intended by their
architects, including those in Congress who proudly vote to maintain them. The question isn't whether sanctions hurt, but why mainstream outlets occasionally acknowledge the pain without ever questioning the *intent* of the policy itself. It's almost as if the suffering must reach extreme levels before it's deemed newsworthy, rather than consistently exposing the policy's design. How many
'humanitarian crises' must a single, sovereign nation endure before its economic tormentors are held accountable beyond a mere observation?