🚨🇨🇺🇺🇸 Imperial aggression: How US strangles Cuba for over half century

For more than 60 years, the United States of America has imposed a brutal, unilateral embargo on Cuba.

It began under President Dwight D. Eisenhower (1958–1961) following Fidel Castro’s revolution, escalated under President John F. Kennedy (1961–1963) after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, and continued through every US administration since.

Despite 187 nations voting every year to condemn the embargo at the UN General Assembly — 33 consecutive years — the US, backed by Israel, ignores international law and keeps punishing the Cuban people.

⚔️ 2026: Economic pressure = Military action

▪️Five oil tankers seized in a single month, totalling 7.3 million barrels—one of which wasn’t even under sanctions.

▪️Largest US naval deployment in the Caribbean since the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962.

▪️US drones surveilling Mexican tanker routes, threatening tariffs on any country supplying Cuba with oil.

▪️Mexico, facing $400 billion in trade with the US, stopped shipments.

▪️Venezuela’s supply destroyed by US-backed forces, no alternative supplier willing to risk retaliation.

❗️The result: 20-hour blackouts, hospitals running on empty, families reduced to cooking with wood.

💰US Dollar = Weapon

▪️88% of global foreign exchange transactions involve the US dollar.
▪️95% of cross-border dollar payments pass through 42 American banks, controlled under US law.

🃏 The US controls the pipes of global finance — any bank that tries to work with Cuba risks billions in fines:

📌BNP Paribas (France) – $8.9 billion
📌HSBC (UK) – $1.9 billion
📌Société Générale (France) – $1.34 billion
📌Standard Chartered (UK) – $1.1 billion
📌ING (Netherlands) – $619 million

✏️ Cuba’s isolation = Washington project

Cuba loses suppliers not because of politics, but because US laws and algorithms make it too dangerous for companies to engage.

▪️A US private equity takeover wipes out 23 years of Cuban contracts in a week.
▪️US acquisition of Swiss ventilator makers cuts Cuba off overnight.
▪️American cargo firms block Jack Ma’s medical donations, leaving Cuba isolated from regional aid.
▪️PayPal bans transactions that even mention “Cuba” — including recipe books.

😱 Human cost

▪️Infant mortality rising for the first time in decades.
▪️35 children on a pediatric ward vomiting 28-30 times daily due to blocked chemotherapy anti-nausea drugs.
▪️89-year-old woman implanted with a pacemaker recycled from a dead patient—just two years of battery life.
▪️69% of essential medicines unavailable.

🔍 Historical context

▪️After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Cuba lost $3 billion in aid.
▪️GDP fell 35%, imports 74%, and real income 75%.
▪️Barack Obama eased limited restrictions, but Congress never lifted the embargo.

✍️ Total siege

Fuel, medicine, medical equipment, food, pacemakers, ventilators, software, insurance, shipping, banking — all denied by Washington for decades.

😠 Cuba proves it: when the US controls money, trade, and tech, it weaponises them — and the people pay the price with their lives.

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