Comment by kyboren
13 days ago
And from which perfect utopia held back only by the evil West do you hail?
Given your apparent desire to put us in chains to experience pain and suffering, perhaps that's the next place we ought to suppress through threats and force.
It must be great to issue declamations from your holier-than-thou victimhood. It's much easier, too, as you never have to defend anything, because it's always someone else's fault.
PS: Food, medicine, and medical equipment--the essentials--are exempt from the embargo.
"holier than thou victimhood" ? What a horrible joke. My "utopia", as you term it, is merely asking that Western nations stop bombing, terrorizing and sanctioning other nations before issuing proclamations on "failed states". They would actually get a chance to be successful.
> PS: Food, medicine, and medical equipment--the essentials--are exempt from the embargo.
So deeply ignorant and deliberately blind to the real world. The U.S. significantly constrained Cuba’s ability to buy medical equipment from other countries, not just from the U.S. itself. Cuba cannot legally import any product containing more than "10% U.S. origin components". For some years, it was even 25%!
Even when a product was made in Germany, Japan, or Canada, U.S. parts could make it illegal to sell to Cuba.
2nd order threats and suppression are very effective for propaganda. Permits western supremacists like you to falsely claim that that "the essentials" are exempt.
Can you show any evidence of any such medical equipment whose export to Cuba was prohibited?
You deftly avoided the question, so I'll ask again: Where are you from?
> Can you show any evidence of any such medical equipment whose export to Cuba was prohibited?
Here is a UN report.
"Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba"
https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/4090890/files/A_80_83-E...
Here is another report from Cuba Solidarity, which details the cost of the blockade
https://cuba-solidarity.org.uk/resources/2025%20blockade%20r...
Here is another report from Cambridge University Press which illustrates an example in Chapter-8
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/economic-sanctions-from...
"For example, the purchase of Vitek 2 Compact 15 laboratory equipment for one of the enterprises that manufactures the Cuban vaccine candidates was cancelled when Canadian supplier North World Industry Inc. (NWI) informed its Cuban customer that the company’s supplier, Biomeriux Canadá, had refused to supply the equipment and its consumables, because the components were manufactured in the US. NWI sought to procure the equipment from Spain, through Biomereux’s European subsidiary, and from Panama, through a Latin American subsidiary, to no avail."
Antoher report of denial during Covid crisis
https://cuba-solidarity.org.uk/news/article/3985/us-company-...
There are a dozen other reports/articles that I can bring up. Most of this research, you could easily find out by yourself. You are just not willing to admit the basic truth to yourself and chosen to deliberately blind your eyes.
(PS: My origin is irrelevant to the evidence. I am not from any NATO nation, obviously not from Cuba myself, belong to a nation formerly under colonial rule and which also experienced Western harsh sanctions in the past.)
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