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The Embargo
On January 25, 1960, President Eisenhower suggested that the US navy quarantine Cuba. If they are hungry, the President fumed, they will throw Castro out. His ambassador to Cuba, Philip W. Bonsal, chided him with a moral reminder: We should not punish the whole Cuban people for the acts of one abnormal man. Less than a year later, that moral restraint had disintegrated. In October, the US banned exports to Cuba except food and medicine, planting the seed of the embargo that grips Cuba to this day. In February 1962, Kennedy would water that seed and lock the people of Cuba under a full economic embargo. With growing cruelty,
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February 12, 2021
Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal Cuba perhaps more than most other countries has been the victim of imperialism and colonisation.
The greatest impact of imperialism and colonisation is on people, in particular, indigenous people. Cuba is no exception.
There are also other lasting impacts. Marxist political economists Paul Baran (
The Political Economy of Growth,
New York: Monthly Review Press, 1957) and André Gunder Frank (
Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Latin America, New York: Monthly Review Press, 1967) wrote of the devastating long-term effects of imperial dominance. Frank described those effects as ‘the development of underdevelopment’.
According to the Baran-Frank thesis, as it is known, an underdeveloped country is not in a state of ‘static equilibrium’ preventing development. On the contrary, underdevelopment is the result of imperial dominance, leading also to a chronic state of dependency. Colonis