Study Shows Trump's Tightened Embargo on Cuba 'Has Killed a Lot of Babies' | Common Dreams (www.commondreams.org)

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[-] cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 4 weeks ago

This isn't exaggeration by the way, the US's economic warfare literally killed babies:

Since 2018, however, Cuba’s IMR has increased from an annual rate of 4.0 per 1,000 live births to a rate of 9.9 as of 2025 representing an increase of 148 percent. If the rate of infant mortality had remained unchanged, then approximately 1,800 fewer babies would have died since 2018. This striking increase in Cuba’s IMR, which is at variance with trends seen in other countries in the region, has taken place over a period (2017–2025) that has seen an unprecedented expansion and tightening of the US commercial and financial embargo

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