US Sanctions Cuba After Trump Says It Gets No More Venezuelan Oil
While mainstream media highlights Cuba's 'defiance' of US threats, they consistently gloss over the persistent, decades-long economic stranglehold Washington maintains. Trump's declaration to halt Venezuelan oil shipments to Cuba isn't an isolated act; it's a chapter in a 60-year saga of US policy designed to starve the Cuban people into submission. From the 1960 US State Department memo
explicitly calling for 'economic warfare' to cause 'hunger, desperation, and overthrow of government'—yes, that's a direct quote—to today's sanctions, the goal remains unchanged. One might wonder if this endless economic punishment is about 'democracy' or simply punishing any nation that dares to chart its own course outside of Washington's orbit. The media frames Cuba's resilience as defiance,
not as a desperate struggle for basic necessities against an all-powerful neighbor. Perhaps if the US focused less on weaponizing basic resources and more on, say, providing actual aid, the 'defiance' narrative might shift.