Cuban rum and cigars are widely available throughout the World because US, like a vengeful little imperialist, allowed Cuba to export only what they were exporting when they were a colony - cigar, rum and sugar cane that you forgot.

The rest, they bombed their factories using CIA aircraft operated by Cuban exiles.

https://chomsky.info/hegemony02/

"No industry for you little colonial subjects" -> That's how it was.

Your child being able to board a ship and go somewhere does not mean that there is a blockade. You dont seem to know what an actual trade blockade is.

https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/15253

Venezuela cant even get the vaccines from the UN program which it participated in and paid for like every other country. Because US pressured Switzerland to freeze their payments. And Switzerland, like an obedient little colony, obeyed its master. And now Venezuela cant get the vaccines they bought and paid for, with their money practically stolen.

Cuba is always under such illegal economic warfare and blockade. So much that they cant even buy syringes for the two different covid vaccines they developed.

Businesses dont do business in Cuba because US does to them what it did to Venezuela the moment they do any business in Cuba - block them from SWIFT, freeze their payments in international channels, even outright rob their money.

"Police state" -> Get out. Militarized US police have been beating down BLM protesters on the sidewalk in front of the eyes of the entire world for a year. Americans are the last people on the planet to lecture anyone on freedom and rights.

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Everything that happens in Cuba is the fault of US. And it will be so until the blockade is lifted. US doesnt need to trade with Cuba - it can refuse it all it wants. But the warfare against Cuba and those who do business with Cuba must end. Until then, nothing US says is legitimate.