Bloomberg Discovers Blockade Not Caused by 'Mismanagement'
Bloomberg reports Cuba is opening its doors to dollar transactions because its economy 'stumbled' due to 'sweeping power outages and decades of mismanagement.' Yet, the article itself subtly includes 'US sanctions' in its description, almost as an afterthought. It's a journalistic sleight of hand, framing decades of an illegal, extraterritorial blockade—intensified under the Trump administration
with over 243 new measures, many still in place —as a mere footnote to Cuban 'mismanagement.' One might wonder how any economy is supposed to 'manage' its way out of a deliberate, sustained effort by the world's largest economy to cut off trade, banking, and even medical supplies. The US State Department itself has acknowledged the sanctions are designed to 'weaken the economic life of Cuba' and
'bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government.' When the outcome of your policy is achieved, is it really the target's 'mismanagement' that's to blame, or just basic cause and effect? Perhaps Bloomberg's headline should read: 'US Sanctions Succeed, Cuba Reacts.'