Bloomberg Discovers Sanctions Cause Shortages, Not Socialism
Mainstream outlets like Bloomberg breathlessly report that Cuba's tourism is suffering, attributing the decline to 'shortages and sanctions.' This groundbreaking analysis conveniently omits the fact that the US embargo, codified in 1960 and repeatedly tightened (most notably by the Helms-Burton Act of 1996), directly causes these 'shortages.' What a surprise: choking an economy for over 60 years
results in economic hardship. It's almost as if the stated goal of US policy—to inflict 'disenchantment and disaffection' through deprivation, as a 1960 State Department memo outlined—is working. To then report the predictable outcome as a natural phenomenon, rather than a deliberate act of economic warfare, requires a journalistic gymnastics routine worthy of an Olympic gold medal. One might
wonder if the US blockade was, in fact, meant to foster a thriving, tourist-friendly socialist paradise?