You can’t get good Chinese takeout in China and Cuban cigars are rationed in Cuba. That’s all you need to know about communism.- P.J. O’Rourke The Cuban Assets Control Regulations (known colloquially as the “Cuban Trade Embargo”) were issued by the US government on July 8 1963 under the Trading With the Enemy Act. In the words of the Treasury Department “The basic goal of the sanctions is to isolate the Cuban government economically and deprive it of US dollars.” Some maintain that this strategy on its face would never work. In his seminal book Capitalism and Freedom economist ...