ANGEL GUERRA CABRERA—It is clear that the blockade is the fundamental cause of the severe shortages of food and medicine, the power cuts and other daily suffering in Cuba. This, together with the frenetic subversive activity of the US, created the psychological conditions, in sectors where the revolutionary message has not been able to reach, to trigger the events of July 11.
The Trump administration took advantage of the pandemic and the economic crisis created by it to make it almost impossible for foreign currency to enter Cuba at a time when Havana is bleeding financially to cope with the disease. Contrary to his campaign promises, President Biden has maintained the economic asphyxiation as he inherited it from his predecessor, in addition to intensifying the subversive policy towards the island under great pressure from the extreme right in Miami.