Tightening the Screws: The Hollow Rhetoric of US Sanctions on Cuba The United States has imposed new sanctions on several high profile targets in Cuba, including a company responsible for importing critical equipment to maintain the island's crumbling power grid.
Proponents claim these measures are aimed at "tightening the screws" on Havana, but this approach is little more than an attempt to strangle the Cuban economy and exacerbate its existing crises.
The US embargo has been in place since 1960, with repeated attempts to strengthen or modify it over the years yielding little change.