Subversion Funds for Cuba: The Worst Deal in History

In recent weeks the U.S. has intensified sanctions against companies that violate the economic blockade of Cuba. Dutch bank ING agreed to pay a $619 million fine, amounting to the highest fine imposed by the Office of Foreign Assets Control.

The Office of Foreign Assets Control is dedicated to controlling, essentially, any Cuban financial transaction or business worldwide. In this way, the U.S. taxpayers’ money is spent on implementing a blockade that ends up not only damaging Cuba but the U.S. economy itself, limiting access to neighboring markets that would generate jobs and income in times of crisis like the present.

But those are not the only reasons why the aggression against Cuba is a bad deal. Since 1959 the United States has invested, with no success, billions of dollars to create an “opposition” in the interior of the island with the aim of overthrowing the revolution. Using a logic they assume to be universal – because it is theirs – North American governments believe money can buy everything, including the people of a neighboring country; even though with this, they only have won the support of an unpatriotic, often criminal, minority.

Perhaps we are witnessing the worst deal in history: an investment repeated over time that does not yield the expected results but is ongoing. Those eager to give Cuba a lesson on economics should reflect on this, because from the Bay of Pigs debacle up to the “Click Festival” travesty, the U.S. did nothing but feed the island parasites at the expense of U.S. citizens.