• gnutrino@programming.dev
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    2 days ago

    The author needs to learn the difference between a blockade and an embargo. Cuba hasn’t been under blockade since the end of the missile crisis.

    • Alsephina@lemmy.ml
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      2 days ago

      It’s very much a blockade in practice since it prevents the vast majority of companies from any country trading with it.

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        2 days ago

        That’s an embargo.

        A blockade is military stopping traffic. “Effectively a blockade” is an embargo.

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      An embargo would imply its just America that can’t trade with Cuba. In reality, almost nobody can trade with Cuba, because any ship that does cannot enter American ports to trade with America.

      It may not be a blockade by the dictionary definition, but it’s certainly not just an embargo.