The State Department’s Cuba Report Revives McCarthyism While Ignoring the Human Cost of Sanctions

On July 20, Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s State Department released a specious 100-page report, Cuba: The Capital of 21st Century Communism. Presented as a national security assessment, it is in fact a political manifesto that resurrects the rhetoric and logic of McCarthyism for the twenty-first century while ignoring the devastating humanitarian consequences of Washington’s escalating economic…