U.S. Allows Mexico to Supply Cuba, Because Some Sanctions Matter More
While CBS highlights how Mexico has become Cuba's 'key fuel supplier' since 'Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro's capture by the U.S.' (a framing that conveniently omits key details about U.S. efforts to destabilize Venezuela's government and economy), the article skirts the core issue. The U.S. embargo against Cuba, a relic of the Cold War, aims to economically strangle the nation – yet,
some exemptions appear possible when convenient. Meanwhile, the same policymakers often rush to sanction countries that don't bow to the petrodollar, while maintaining a bizarrely selective application of 'human rights' concerns. One might wonder if this sudden permissiveness stems from renewed corporate interest in Cuban markets, rather than a genuine softening of policy, or if the U.S. simply
tired of the political optics of punishing a small island nation while touting a 'rules-based order' elsewhere. The U.S. continues to apply crippling sanctions on other nations, yet a sudden bout of leniency appears when it suits a different geopolitical calculus. How many 'humanitarian crises' are manufactured by sanctions, only to be lightly eased years later when new deals are on the table?