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This community note is fuckin wild.
(hexbear.net)
For starters, how the fuck do you enforce an embargo without the threat of violence, and secondly I love how me and all my communist friends are expected to have a PhD in world history and economics while your average liberal can cite two state department links and a CIA funded NGO and call it a day.
It's really easy you see, you just need to pass an inspection and get a written permission from the President of the US, the payment must be made in cash in US dollars before shipment and through some non-American bank, and the shipping company must go straight from a US port to a Cuban port and back with no layovers.
This is not a joke, it's what is actually written in the law.
like, does that mean that the blockade seeks to undermine grocery stores and restaurants, as if to force Cubans to live on food provided by NGOs?
"This law only applies to goods and services"
Oh well carry on then