Many of those things you cite Musket, have close paralells in how the wartime government in the UK behaved, or to go further back, the Paris Commune. When a country, or a city, is under siege, many civil liberties go to the wall, and inevitably things happen that shouldn't happen.

But if America had accepted the right of Cubans to make their own revolution, without trying to overhrow it directly, and then trying to starve it out, there would have been no occasion for Cuba to operate as if it were at war to generations.