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The truth on the other hand, is the unshakable reality that has driven every sanction, every sabotage attempt, and every assassination plot since 1959: Cuba is a threat only to an idea. It is a threat to the imperial doctrine that a small, poor nation in America’s ‘backyard’ must not be allowed to choose socialism, to provide free healthcare and education, and homes to live without the permission of Washington.
For this sin of self-determination, the crime of building a society where capital is not god, Cuba has been punished with the most enduring economic siege in modern history. This is not an ‘embargo’, which I consider to be a sterile, political term. It is a total blockade, designed to constrict and cripple. It is enforced by a plethora of laws with names like the Helms-Burton Act, which terrorises foreign companies from trading with the Island and allows the US to seize ships in international waters. Its goal, as US politician Robert Torricelli once admitted, was to…
‘Wreak havoc’.

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[–] Nomorereddit@lemmy.today 15 points 17 hours ago

America: ill do it again

[–] Revolutionary_Apples@lemmy.ml 34 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

The fact that there has not been a unified Latin American defence coalition against the US formed is crazy to me. Us in the USA want (and more desperately need) liberation from our leadership.

[–] goferking0 28 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Isn't that why usa/cia do so much to keep them disablized?

[–] Star@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 14 hours ago

B-b-b-bingo

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 6 points 12 hours ago

The fact that there has not been a unified Latin American defence coalition against the US formed is crazy to me.

There has been one. It's just composed of imperial powers and their corporate proxies.

The defense coalition existed to intercede against slave revolts, anti-colonial nationalism, and Communist uprisings. It has been very successful.

Us in the USA want (and more desperately need) liberation from our leadership.

Join the club

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 10 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Wanting and having the will to do what needs doing are different things.

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[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 day ago

What the US is doing right now? It goes further back...

[–] DiscoAssBlazer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 117 points 1 day ago
[–] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 day ago

Ebough damage has been done in these last decades. This is dangerously becoming a full blown USA genocide of the Cuban people. It's unacceptable.

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