The new oil blockade makes explicit what US policy has long denied — that economic warfare against Cuba targets civilians in the name of “regime change.”

Dupont also pointed out that “the vast majority of the international community holds the view that economic warfare, sanctions, [and] de facto blockades are illegal under international law if they are not adopted by the [United Nations Security Council].”

The UN Security Council has never authorized the blockade against Cuba.

  • Doomsider@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    It is estimated that US sanctions cost an average of 500,000 civilian death a year for the last 50 years. That is 25 million people dead because we have policy disagreements.