>>>>>One question: Why do you think the embargo is responsible for the poverty in Cuba?

>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.

Oh, I am sure the embargo was inconvenient and diminished the Cuban economy in the short run.
In the longer run, official trade with countries not friendly to the US, and unofficial trade would still happen,
IF Cuba had anything to trade.

Cuba's extreme poverty has other causes that are rather obvious.