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Senator Peter Welch argues that the Trump administration's oil blockade and military deployments toward Cuba have crossed from economic coercion into the architecture of an unauthorized war — one with no plan for what follows.
The senator contends the financial pressure campaign, which has eliminated electricity across the island and cut Cuba off from international bank financing, is manufacturing a crisis rather than resolving one.
The Blockade's Economic Reach The mechanism of pressure is financial and logistical. A US oil blockade has shut down electricity across the entire island of Cuba, halting hospitals, schools, and factories.
Cuba's placement on the US state sponsors of terrorism list has simultaneously severed the island from international bank financing, compounding what Welch describes as a collapse engineered to justify regime change.
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