The New York Times makes no bones about its disdain for Donald Trump.

But when it comes to his Cuba policy, the “paper of record” rarely bothers to hold the administration to account and its shoddy reporting legitimizes the U.S. government's ongoing economic war on the island.

The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) last week barred scientists in six “countries of concern” from accessing 21 biomedical databases – a vast network of vital healthcare resources related to an array of conditions from Alzheimer’s to cancer. The ban impacts Cuba, China, Russia, Iran, Venezuela and North Korea.