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US government would say that Cuban socialism is a failure like they haven't spent decades trying to force it to fail.
Why then don't they lift the sanctions and prove beyond doubt that socialism hurts the Cuban people? Maybe they fear a prosperous Cuba, a successful socialist country right on their doorstep that would make voting Americans take notice.
The US government has pretty much admitted that's the case, and has been the direct goal of constantly trying to tear down (and assassinate) Castro and have Cuba fail since the 1950s.
EDIT: I'm saying the US has been seething for decades because Cuba has managed to exist as a socialist country right next door, and that's bad for the capitalist propaganda that socialism bad