“What’s one word to describe the blockade?” We asked people in Cuba this simple question and the answers say everything: cruel, criminal, inhumane, genocidal. For more than 60 years, U.S. policy has tried to suffocate an entire country economically, restricting fuel, food, medicine, and basic supplies in the hope that hardship will force political change. Under the Trump administration, these measures have intensified, tightening financial restrictions, targeting fuel shipments, and further isol