Blame Game

Joy Gordon perpetuates a number of untruths regarding the United States’ policy toward Cuba [“El Bloqueo,” Report, July]. Gordon writes that the U.S. embargo has affected Cubans’ access to electricity, but how could that be, when for three decades the island enjoyed massive subsidies from the Soviet Union, including millions of tons of cheap oil that Castro reexported for profit? While I was growing up barefoot in Cuba, the regime controlled enough resources to maintain a military presence on two continents and enough fertilizer to produce 8 million tons of sugar in a year, to the detriment of…