In seeking to justify the policy, Washington resorts to lies, while attempting to obscure its criminal nature by financing campaigns to spread the notion that the blockade does no real harm to the Cuban economy, that its effects are not a significant obstacle to our development and economic stability.

I’ve seen anticommies on Reddit argue that the embargo is harmless or even nonexistent. Apparently members of the ruling class imposed a blockade on the republic and blew billions of dollars on it simply because they have nothing better to do.