I keep seeing this narrative around Twitter. People hitting back against other saying the US needs to drop the embargo by saying food and medical supplies are actually allowed.

Can anyone properly debunk this so I don't have to deal with it?

  • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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    3 years ago

    "Food and medicine can go but boats can't".

    Here's a simple citational debunking. The US has this daisy chain of prohibitions that make traffic between Cuba and the mainland functionally illegal, contents of the shipping vessel be damned. Even a foreign superpower like China is stuck, as its vessels need to navigate a maze of restricted ports and traffic corridors to deliver anything.