Why the Embargo Against Cuba?
APRIL 27, 2021
BY JACOB G. HORNBERGER
Now that Cuban president Raul Castro has resigned the presidency of Cuba, will the U.S. government lift its six-decades-long economic embargo against Cuba?
Don’t count it. Squeezing the life out of the Cuban people as a way to get regime change has become such a normalized way of life for the United States that it is unlikely that this cruel and brutal policy will be ended anytime soon.
Back in the day, the embargo was justified as part of the Cold War against “godless communism” and, specifically, the international communist conspiracy that was supposedly based in Moscow, Russia and that supposedly threatened to envelope the United States and the rest of the world. (Yes, that Russia, the one we are being called upon, once again, to treat as our official enemy.) The Pentagon and the CIA steadfastly maintained that the “national security” of the United States was gravely threatened by a communist outpost only 90 miles away from American shores.
But when the Cold War suddenly and unexpectedly came to an end in 1989, the embargo just kept gong and going. And even though former communist dictator Fidel Castro is now dead and his brother Raul is now out of the presidency, there is no push within the federal government to finally bring an end to this cruel and brutal program.
What’s up with that? The U.S. government doesn’t have an embargo against communist Vietnam, whose northern half killed some 58,000 American men. Why have an embargo against a country that has never attacked the United States or even threatened to do so?
I suspect that part of the reason is that the CIA has never been able to get over the humiliation of having been defeated when its ragtag army of Cuban exiles invaded Cuba in 1961 in a futile attempt to secure regime change on the island. In fact, my hunch is that the CIA and the Pentagon have never been able to get over the fact that their entire regime-change operations against Cuba, including sabotage, terrorism, and assassination, as well as the embargo, failed to oust the communist regime and replace it with a U.S.-installed regime, one that would, once again, do the bidding of the U.S. government.
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There are so many U.S. Americans who never grasped the truth about US/Cuba policy, and never bothered to think about it, to question it, or, heaven forbid, start trying to find out if there's something they don't know but maybe should.
It's wonderful if and when someone indicates he/she actually has seen through the act, the "official" story. It takes an act of faith in yourself, rather than never wondering if you've been fed a whopper all your life!
Cause for celebration!
Once you've made it out of the dark, you can never go back. Impossible! Thank you.
after most of the revolutionary participants have passed away. After the fall of the Soviet Union, there was no reason to continue the pretense that there was a national security threat emanating from Cuba. Cynically speaking, I can only imagine that we are punishing the people of Cuba for our embarrassing failure to "colonize" them.
Thanks for posting so much great material!
As an aside, I aim to steadily work my way out of the TOTAL ignorance I always lived in, without realizing, concerning EVERYTHING south of the U.S. border! I actually assumed I knew everything important, having learned it from the culture, even from the "news"papers, and "news" magazines, even subscribing to several after high school, to try to keep up.
I was SO misled, so STOOPID.
Now I am trying to dig my way out of it! I feel an obligation to share what I find, because I have learned how sad and grief-ridden a person actually feels to know how off base he/she is without trying to climb out!
Thank you for your comment. ⭐️
This is probably the most beautiful picture I've found of Cuba, it's Santiago de Cuba,
decorations done for a celebration. So beautiful I couldn't believe it, at first. If you
look hard enough, it appears each bird was hand-made.
issues and policies. After having read the "Confessions of an Economic Hit-man" by John Perkins, the blindfold came off. It has become impossible for me to trust what our government tells us regarding foreign policy. And given what we have gone through the last four years, I couldn't trust anything the federal government has said about domestic policy. Biden is a decent man but he can't fix all that is wrong with our government.
Thank you for sharing that beautiful picture. 
