These views are supported by former political prisoners and dissidents in Cuba. That argument is patently absurd. As long as the embargo on food and de-facto embargo on medicines is around, the finger of blame for the growing health crisis in Cuba can point at the u.s. If the u.s. sells food and medicine to Cuba and the Cuban government diverts those basic goods away from the Cuban people, then the Cuban government and not the u.s. deserves the blame. We can't control what the Cuban government does, but we can act with moral decency ourselves.
Charity is no substitute for trade.
I believe that life sustaining u.s. We must make it clear that the Cuban embargo plays absolutely no foreign policy role. It is an ossified relic of the cold war that reflects solely domestic policy concerns. For some years now the embargo has been nothing but a political bone thrown to the political right and to the most extremist factions of the Florida community. There can be no moral justification for this obsolete, misguided and illegal policy that denies Cuban citizens basic needs.