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Wayne Karol's avatar

It's important to differentiate between people like Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez who have expressed support for the protestors while continuing to blame the embargo more than it deserves (Noah Smith wrote well about this the other day) and outright defenders of the dictatorship like BLM and DSA.

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William Bell's avatar

"it decided many decades ago that it was going to squeeze Cuba because the Cubans nationalized American businesses on the island."

The notion that US policy regarding Cuba since Castro took over has been driven primarily by resentment of his government's appropriation of assets of US citizens sixty or more years ago strikes this reader as highly implausible. Surely the fact that the Castro government was a key ally and client state of the USSR during the last three decades of the Cold War and actively supported Marxist insurrections elsewhere in Latin America had a lot more to do with it!

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