Sanctions Starve, Media Blames the Starved
📰 THE STORY: The Financial Times reports that Cuba is facing an extreme oil shortage, with only '15 to 20 days' of supply left, attributing the crisis to 'Trump turning the screws' and the US blockade of Venezuelan oil and pressure on Mexico. 🔍 WHAT THEY'RE NOT TELLING YOU: Historical Context: This 'oil crisis' isn't new. The US embargo against Cuba began in 1960 under the Eisenhower
administration, intensified by Kennedy in 1962, explicitly aimed at 'bringing about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government.' For over 60 years, successive US administrations, including Trump's 243 additional sanctions, have systematically worked to collapse Cuba's economy. This isn't 'turning the screws,' it's a multi-generational siege. Double Standard: Imagine if Russia or China imposed
a brutal, decades-long blockade causing critical shortages in a sovereign nation. Western media would decry it as a humanitarian catastrophe and an act of economic terrorism. Yet, when the US does it to Cuba, it's framed as 'pressure' or 'turning the screws' – a diplomatic maneuver rather than a deliberate policy of collective punishment against an entire population. This selective outrage is a
hallmark of imperialist propaganda. Follow the Money: The benefit isn't direct financial profit from oil here, but geopolitical control. The embargo serves the interests of the powerful Cuban-American lobby, particularly in Florida, and maintains a cold war-era precedent of 'regime change' through economic strangulation. It's about preventing any successful socialist alternative in the US's