Published in Spanish at La Joven Cuba. Translation by Jackson Remple for LINKS International Journal of Socialist Renewal.
By La Joven Cuba editorial board The strategy of strangling Cuba economically has achieved one of its most silent victories — turning US sanctions into business as usual, even to academic, media and political circles that for years have acknowledged the sanctions’ economic and humanitarian impact. While the coercive measures are being tightened and extended to international actors who previously traded with the island, public debate on the crisis seems to focus almost exclusively on the palpable errors and failings of the Cuban government, as if the two phenomena were taking place in separate universes. Originally conceived as a strategy for regime change — which has failed — the sanctions policy has successfully mutated into a form of collective punishment, where the deterioration of the population’s living conditions also serves as a deterrent. Cuba thus becomes the “bad example” to be paraded before the world, so that its crisis serves as a permanent warning against any political or economic alternative that challenges the power of the United States... Continue reading at https://links.org.au/hidden-cost-cuban-crisis -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#41812): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/41812 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/119453039/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
