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Embargos are basically political although they have serious economic and financial consequences.
It makes no sense for the US to maintain an embargo that basically impoverishes the Cuban people. Lifting the embargo to outside goods would place severe and ultimately untenable pressure on the Castro regime to liberalize and open the economy to the world. Despite our efforts and achievements in keeping the standards of health comparable with those of the developed nations, I can assert that the US blockade imposed on us is affecting the Cuban system of public health. It stops us from accessing medicines and technologies exclusively produced by American companies or their subsidiaries. The international community has overwhelmingly and systematically condemned the US blockade at the United Nations General Assembly.