The U.S. blockade of Cuba and its extraterritorial effect
U.S. policy towards Cuba has had among its pillars, for more than six decades, the implementation of unilateral coercive economic measures. Although the fundamentals of this approach have varied somewhat over time, according to experts, the constant objective of the blockade policy has been to use the economic power of the US to undermine the Cuban socio-economic and political system and thus bring about a change of regime on the island.