For decades, leftists, including participants in the Nuestra América Convoy, have blamed Cuba’s poverty on the United States rather than on the communist dictatorship that has denied basic rights, including multiparty elections, since seizing power in 1959.
They attribute Cuba’s crisis entirely to the U.S. oil blockade, ignoring decades of government mismanagement and centrally planned economic failure that preceded it. The embargo is real and has economic impact, and the UN General Assembly again voted in 2025 to condemn it, but it does not account for Cuba’s broader productive failure, which long predates the 2026 oil blockade.
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