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This community note is fuckin wild. (hexbear.net)

submitted 4 months ago by Nakoichi@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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For starters, how the fuck do you enforce an embargo without the threat of violence, and secondly I love how me and all my communist friends are expected to have a PhD in world history and economics while your average liberal can cite two state department links and a CIA funded NGO and call it a day.

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[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 24 points 4 months ago

The embargo on Cuba exempts food and medicines.

U.S. SANCTIONS ON CUBA AND VENEZUELA HAMPER THE GLOBAL FIGHT AGAINST COVID-19

Venezuelan authorities say U.S. sanctions are to blame.

“The news that Venezuela’s last 4 payments to COVAX have been blocked—thus preventing the Venezuelan people from accessing the vaccine distribution mechanism—confirms once again the criminal nature of the unilateral, illegal, and coercive measures that the United States has imposed on Venezuela,” Arreaza told The Intercept in a statement.

A spokesperson for the U.S. State Department rejected the notion that the U.S. bears responsibility, noting that "sanctions on Venezuela include broad exceptions for humanitarian goods but that banks sometimes delay transactions on their own.

frothingfash X patriots in control parroting cia gaslighting.

[-] Black_Mald_Futures@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago

Literally a rapporteur from the UN, who was a Harvard educated ghoul too, went to Venezuela in like 2014 and he was like "yeah the situation in Venezuela isn't great but the sanctions are making everything worse and constitute a crime against humanity"