"The United States has no morals where human rights are concerned", Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel quipped Tuesday after Washington’s demanded the release of U.S. prisoners in Cuba. Diaz-Canel said, "Does anyone know a more cruel, massive violation of human rights, than the blockade to Cuba?"

You don't think purposely sanctioning an economy into ruin is a human rights issue?

What about all those Iraqi children the US killed/disabled because we put sanctions on trade with Iraq? Your logic that "trade isn't a human right, therefore, the effects cannot be a violation of human rights" is like saying, "I didn't kill the man, I just pulled the trigger; the bullet did the killing."

Sanctions have an expiration date for their effectiveness. Once it became clear that Cuba wasn't going to cave, the US should have eased up the wide-spread sanctions and just kept target sanctions on Cuban officials.

Cuba's economy adjusted to not having trade with the US and at that point the sanctions were just cruel and unnecessary.

Can sanctions work as a way to pressure internal forces to make change? Yes.

But that effect is usually felt in a matter of month/years. Not decades. If generations of people know nothing but life under sanctions, the population likely doesn't have the motivation to want to go "back" to the way things were before they were born.

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