“Most damaging, however, is the ban on extending credit to allow Cuba to buy more food from the bountiful US farm belt."
Did it ever occur to the genius who wrote that sentence why the US farm belt is "bountiful" but the Cuban farm belt is impoverished and destitute?
Well, it probably did, and their answer probably runs along the lines of something like, "the U.S. farm belt is so bountiful because the greedy farmers got rich off the backs of the poor Cuban people", or some such Marxist demagoguery.