The US embargo against Cuba --- I totally agree with you, Prof. Maciel. A very clear example is the case of Cuba. The embargo against that country since 1962 by the US, is a political decision whose main affected is Cuban society because it faces high conditions of poverty and marginalization in a country where the State has control of all means of production, where large companies are owned by the State, where the economic system presents difficulties to create value and capital and where the private sector is very small and has great difficulties to survive. Societal desperation has fuelled recent protests against the Cuban government. The United Nations have estimated that the embargo has cost the Cuban economy $130 billion over six decades.The embargo against Cuba is one of the measures most condemned by the United Nations (UN) General Assembly, where every year, since 1992, a resolution against US imposition has been approved.

Source author: Cecilia Treemonisha Barros Ruiz cbarros@sre.gob.mx