The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), of the U.S. Treasury Department, imposed a fine of 608,825 dollars to the company Key Holding, LLC, owner of Key Logistics Colombia S.A.S., for making 36 shipments to Cuba between 2022 and 2023, valued at more than three million dollars. Most of these shipments consisted of foodstuffs, along with oil well machinery, towels and electric forage choppers.
The case - disseminated by media financed by U.S. government agencies such as USAID and NED - is presented as a "violation of the embargo", deliberately omitting that the U.S. economic blockade against Cuba is a criminal policy that directly affects the Cuban people, preventing the entry of medicines, food and essential resources.
Once again, OFAC punishes even the shipment of food, which shows that the real objective is to suffocate Cuba and generate suffering among its people.
The blockade is not a simple "bilateral measure", it is a system of extraterritorial coercion that persecutes any company or country that tries to trade with Cuba.
