Trump’s Cuba Policy Is a Humanitarian Disaster

Foreign Affairs

Trump’s Cuba Policy Is a Humanitarian Disaster

Sanctions and embargoes have immiserated Cubans without bringing regime change.

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On January 25, 1960, President Dwight D. Eisenhower proposed a U.S. naval “quarantine” of Cuba. “If they are hungry,” the president fumed, “they will throw Castro out.” His ambassador to Cuba...