The latest chapter in the decades-long tradition of the news media blaming the U.S. for Communist Cuba’s problems was written on Friday’s CNN This Morning when host Audie Cornish and New York Times writer and podcaster Lulu Garcia-Navarro tried to blame President Trump’s seizing of Cuba-bound Venezuelan oil tankers for the country’s ever-increasing economic disaster.
The conversation occurred as Washington is trying to ascertain what exactly happened when Cuba shot a speedboat off its coast that included at least one American death. Nobody at the table believed that the incident was an American government-sanctioned operation, but Garcia-Navarro declared that the Cuban government will try to spin it to portray themselves as a nation under siege. That led Cornish to wonder, “Right. As the people there are suffering under the blockade. Right?”
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