{"id":592848,"date":"2021-07-15T21:20:17","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T01:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=592848"},"modified":"2021-07-15T21:20:20","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T01:20:20","slug":"alexandria-ocasio-cortez-says-absurdly-cruel-us-embargo-is-partly-responsible-for-cuban-suffering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-says-absurdly-cruel-us-embargo-is-partly-responsible-for-cuban-suffering\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Says \u2018Absurdly Cruel\u2019 US Embargo Is Partly Responsible For Cuban Suffering"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Falexandria-ocasio-cortez-says-absurdly-cruel-us-embargo-is-partly-responsible-for-cuban-suffering%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=592848&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1321528299-scaled-e1622832681477.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Friday that the U.S. embargo was partly responsible for Cuban suffering.<\/p>\n<p>Ocasio-Cortez released a statement as <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/13\/kayleigh-mcenany-joe-biden-outnumbered-fox-cuban-protests-root-cause-far-left-communism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">freedom protesters<\/a> continued to take to the streets in <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/15\/patel-protests-cuba-lefts-agenda-america\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cuba<\/a> despite crackdowns from the government. She said that it was important to stand with the Cuban people but that it was also necessary to acknowledge the role the U.S. could have played in making the situation worse. <strong><a class=\"text-black\" href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/13\/bernie-sanders-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-ilhan-omar-rashida-tlaib-cuba-protests\/\">(RELATED: \u2018Squad\u2019 Socialists In Congress Oddly Quiet About Anti-Communism Protests In Cuba)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe stand in solidarity with the Cuban people and condemn the suppression of the media, speech and protest,\u201d Ocasio-Cortez tweeted along with a full statement. \u201cWe also call for an end to the U.S. embargo and additional Trump-era restrictions that are profoundly contributing to the suffering of Cubans.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"11.482035928144\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We stand in solidarity with the Cuban people and condemn the suppression of the media, speech and protest.<\/p>\n<p>We also call for an end to the U.S. embargo and additional Trump-era restrictions that are profoundly contributing to the suffering of Cubans. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Fw6Quv5TAN\">pic.twitter.com\/Fw6Quv5TAN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@RepAOC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepAOC\/status\/1415825886981545992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 16, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe are seeing Cubans rise up and protest for their rights like never before. We stand in solidarity with them, and we condemn the anti-democratic actions led by President Diaz-Canel,\u201d Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s statement began, and she went on to criticize the Cuban government for suppressing the speech of the citizens and restricting their access to the internet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe also must name the U.S. contribution to Cuban suffering: our sixty-year-old embargo,\u201d Ocasio-Cortez continued, noting that the <a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/story\/2021\/06\/1094612\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">United Nations had called for an end<\/a> to the embargo just a month earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Ocasio-Cortez went on to claim that the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/13\/bernie-sanders-blames-us-embargo-communist-cuba-protests\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cuban embargo<\/a>, along with other U.S. policies in Latin American countries, were intentionally designed to inflict pain on the people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe embargo is absurdly cruel and, like too many other U.S. policies targeting Latin Americans, the cruelty is the point,\u201d she said. \u201cI outright reject the Biden administration\u2019s defense of the embargo. It is never acceptable for us to use cruelty as a point of leverage against everyday people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/cubajournal.co\/a-definition-of-the-u-s-embargo-against-cuba\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cuban embargo<\/a> was initially put into place by the late President John F. Kennedy, but more recent adjustments to the policy have opened the door for the U.S. to export food to the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/13\/air-strikes-cuba-martha-maccallum-presses-miami-mayor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">island nation<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Friday that the U.S. embargo was partly responsible for Cuban suffering.Ocasio-Cortez released a statement as freedom protesters continued to take to the streets &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-592848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}