Blockade Blocks Aid

“The U.S. oil blockade on Cuba is fast exhausting the country’s supply of fuel, causing daily blackouts, food shortages, canceled classes and black-market gas prices approaching $40 a gallon. It is also crippling Cuba’s universal health care system, a state institution once considered a triumph for a poor nation, but is now struggling to provide basic care. In interviews, six Cuban doctors said that rapidly deteriorating conditions at hospitals and clinics across Cuba were causing deaths that would otherwise be preventable.” In theory, this blockade is intended to weaken the current government and ultimately make life better for Cubans. That was also part of the reasoning for the war in Iran. But somehow, things don’t always seem to work out for the citizens supposedly being helped. NYT (Gift Article): Cuban Patients Are Dying Because of U.S. Blockade, Doctors Say.