Cuba lies!

Rafael Viego
"Food and medicine has been excluded from the embargo for the last 21 years when President Clinton signed Trade Sanctions Reform and Export Enhancement Act of 2000 (TSRA) law. 

According to Amnesty International, in 2008 alone, Cuba imported $700 Million worth of food and agricultural products. 

So this talking point about the US preventing food and medicine to Cuba is a lie and propaganda. 

• This claim that the US embargo is the cause of misery for Cubans is BS. 
• Cuba trades with much of the world and has many natural resources. 

And let’s add what many of us in Miami already know:
— The US embargo does not prohibit fishers in Cuba from fishing; the dictatorship does.
— The US embargo does not prohibit the Cuban people from eating meat; the dictatorship does.
— The US embargo does not confiscate the food they harvest from the peasants; the dictatorship does.
— The US embargo does not allow animals to die, and fruit and vegetables rot in the countryside while Cubans go hungry; the dictatorship does...
...Last year alone, the U.S. exported $176 million of goods to Cuba. 

In the first six months of 2021, Cuba imported $123 million worth of chicken from the United States — just as an example.
The Cuban government has an internal blockade on its citizens. 

It has the Cuban people imprisoned in Cuba, hostages of a totalitarian government....Much more. Read all.