The past few weeks have brought three different answers to that question, from the United States, the European Union and Latin America.For more than 50 years the official American answer has been to try to asphyxiate Cuban communism through an economic embargo, and to encourage internal dissent.
They are now trying to asphyxiate the economy, they say.
If anybody has broken the vicious monopolies that asphyxiate the city's food market, shoppers have yet to notice.Equally anecdotal, and equally curious, are his views on the money supply.
If you don't wish to asphyxiate on poison gas in a subway, or lose your legs to detonating pressure-cookers at a road-race, it is in your interest to support American interventions on behalf of democracy across the globe.
When inhaled, these agents prevent the transfer of oxygen to the cells, causing the body to asphyxiate.
Whatever the complexity of the legal, economic and political challenges, allowing vulnerable migrants to drown in the Mediterranean or asphyxiate in the holds of ships is an affront to European values.
This includes nearly 900 people who choke to death, 2,500 who asphyxiate from a blocked airway and 29,000 who die from heart attacks.
The house he built for himself, which would become known as "Murder Castle," was equipped with secret passages, trapdoors, soundproof rooms, doors that could be locked from the outside, gas jets to asphyxiate victims, and a kiln to cremate the bodies.
The child with its head out but a shoulder stuck — a "shoulder dystocia" — will asphyxiate within five to seven minutes unless it is freed and delivered.
I ask, 'What the hell are you doing?' I ask, 'Are you trying to asphyxiate your entire family?' I ask, 'Did you hear me?' Then I ask, 'Did you hear me?' again.
