so sorry for being ignorant, can you explain what exactly us cargo and Cuban cargo mean and what they're doing? and how it's a human rights violation? I feel like getting to know from someone directly affected is better than googling it which I'll do after this. ty ♡
The US placed an economic embargo on the island nation of Cuba after the Cuban Revolution of 1959. Cuba declared independence from US neocolonial rule and declared the socialist nature of the revolution shortly after and the US didn't like that.
From the US State Department website:
The United States maintains a comprehensive economic embargo on the Republic of Cuba. In February 1962, President John F. Kennedy proclaimed an embargo on trade between the United States and Cuba, in response to certain actions taken by the Cuban Government, and directed the Departments of Commerce and the Treasury to implement the embargo, which remains in place today.
The embargo has been modified and strengthened several times since banning US companies and foreign subsidiaries of US companies from trading with Cuba and pressuring foreign governments and corporations from doing the same in an effort to force the Cuban government to do what the US wants it to do.
The real aim of the embargo is to force destitution on the island and blame communism for it INSTEAD of what the US is doing to force these circumstances on the island. The US government also hopes that the Cuban people will get tired of suffering an blame the Cuban government itself and bring it down. But Cuban people aren't stupid and they're aware of why the situation is the way it is and has been in Cuba for so long and the the US government is responsible.
The Cuban government is not perfect and everyone in Cuba does not blindly approve of everything it does just like here in the US many of us have a similar relationship to our government. But it's up to the Cuban people to modify their own government in their terms not against the barrel of an American rifle.
The United Nations have been voting for the US to end it's economic embargo on Cuba every year since 1992 and have widely condemned the embargo as inhumane economic warfare that affects the millions of people that live on the island for the worse:
In the meeting held in-person on Wednesday at UN headquarters in New York, three countries - Colombia, Ukraine, and Brazil - abstained.
With overwhelming backing from the international community, the resolution has been approved ever since 1992 when the General Assembly began to vote annually on the issue, with the sole exception of 2020, due to the restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
While the Assembly’s vote carries political weight in terms of international diplomacy, only the US Congress can lift the economic, commercial, and financial embargo in place for five decades.
Most people around the world are fully aware of this relationship between the US and Cuba but here in the US because we're propagandized from childhood to be terrified of communism because the capitalist class runs the culture and the government etc... Americans do not really understand this and their perception of US-Cuban relations have no relation to the reality at all whatsoever.
The US doesn't sanction countries like Saudi Arabia for example, a literal monarchy run by despots but Cuba is sanctioned. Cuban-US relations have to do with Cuba not wanting to be treated like "the US's backyard" as Woodrow Wilson declared and how most Latin American countries are treated by the US and thus it's choked and marginalized even during COVID where things got ,even worse.
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