The ongoing US embargo and policies against Cuba constitute a siege that is a form of revenge for old humiliations rather than a coherent foreign policy.

“This is not an embargo. This is a a siege and it's a revenge. They're starving people in this country right now over uh decades old humiliations to the United States intelligence and and and power and uh and and capital here in this country.”

The US designation of Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism is a superficial, cynical tool used for financial strangulation that should be ended.

“But effectively, this is one of our strongest forms of financial strangulation that uh bars Cuba and its people from really participating in the international financial system.”