Spartan Housing Cooperative Pine Press, 27 August 2021 - Music ~ love live music & exploring genres. My favs are reggae, experimental bass, and psych rock. - Dabble in writing, painting, dancing. Love to move and keep my mind and body busy. - Cooperative living, duh! The SHC has opened my eyes to the joys (and stresses) of co-operative living, and now I can't imagine housing any other way.
Q&A on the US Embargo against Cuba Brandon Chew of Toad Lane, with Jorge Martín The following is a shortened version of my conversation with Jorge Martín, an editor at In Defense of Marxism, the website of the International Marxist Tendency. Martín’s stories focus on Latin-American politics. The full interview can be read at https://medium.com/@brandonmichaelchew/q-a-on-the-us-trade-embargo-again st-cuba-8bddcdad754a
This interview was conducted on August 2, 2021 and has been edited for clarity and brevity. Brandon Chew When would you say the US embargo against Cuba began? How was it implemented? And could you explain some of the motivations that the United States had for the embargo? Jorge Martín The economic measures of the United States against the Cuban revolution started very early on in 1960, less than a year into the revolution. When the agrarian reforms started in Cuba, the countermeasures from the United States began. Cuba's national liberation movement focussed on agrarian reform which affected the sugarcane plantations and the sugarcane mills, etc., which were previously owned by United States companies. So what is the U.S.’ motivation for the trade embargo? I can read from an official document, [entitled] “Memorandum from the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Mallory) to the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Rubottom),” in 1960. It says the following: "Salient considerations respecting the present Government of Cuba are:
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