>>>>One question: Why do you think the embargo is responsible for the poverty in Cuba?
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>>Cuba calculates that the embargo cost it " 753 mil 688 millones de dólares" (over $753B, see http://www.cubavsbloqueo.cu/sites/default/files/InformeBloqueo2016ES.pdf )
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>We already know that Castro has claimed the embargo is responsible for the deplorable poverty in Cuba.
>I am more interested in what you think.
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>Do you think the loss of only one (major) trading partner caused the poverty?
>It seems like there are many other nations eager to trade.

Almost no other nation would have dare to trade with Cuba. They knew the Americans would penalize them and their economies suffer. The old divide and conquer technique.

Luis