U.S. EMBARGO AND SANCTIONS ARE DESIGNED TO CAUSE ECONOMIC CRISIS
For 60 years, the United States has maintained an economic, commercial and financial embargo (also commonly referred to as a “blockade”) against Cuba. The embargo’s explicit purpose - as stated by a secret State Department memorandum in 1960 - is to “to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government.” The United Nations has called out the embargo by noting…
