Can someone explain to me what’s the point in upholding the US sanctions on Cuba that are the root cause for all of this?
Like, what real benefit do the US have from keeping those sanctions up?iirc it’s basically to appease the Cuban voting block in Florida who are against the regime in Cuba (because they got kicked out/lost property/whatever). This group holds some amount of sway in federal elections on account of Florida being (having been?) a swing state.
I believe Obama was in the process of mending the relations between the U.S and Cuba, and then Trump got into office and promptly reversed it as a giveaway to this group that now votes Republican.
Hurricane Oscar will hit the island this afternoon. Not good.
I read this as Cuba’s electrical grill failure and was not shocked, like at all.
The blockade is becoming genocidal at this point.
As the article indicates, the embargo is not the problem.
They specifically pointed to the embargo twice, as points for wavering food security and oil for energy. It’s part of the problem.
Sure you can blame the US first, but we don’t run or maintain their electrical plants. There is a paragraph that describes how they get their oil. They pump half of it. B%W, they can buy food from the US. It’s not part of the embargo.
So a couple things:
- I’m not entirely blaming the US embargo, the Cuban government is also at fault and are responsible for ensuring food security and electrical production.
- It’s ridiculous to claim that the embargo hasn’t seriously hindered the growth of Cuba or made it more difficult to maintain status quo for their citizens. The embargo prevents any trade with the Cuba if it involves the US, including foreign companies that want to do business in the US. Food and medicine purchases are allowed but still bound with significant red tape.
Well, it’s an island. So, there’s little room for growth in the first place. Secondly,they can and do trade with various countries, including Mexico and Canada, which do a lot of business with the US.
There’s more to growth than literal expansion. The Helms–Burton Act is what I’m referring to. The companies that trade with Cuba are banned from operating in the US. That doesn’t mean no country can trade with Cuba, it’s just forcing foreign companies to choose between one of the wealthiest and most populous countries in the world and a poor little island in the Caribbean.
There have been no Caribbean islands I have been to that are what you would call industrial strong. Little resources.
Companies can and do business with Cuba. They just can’t use US banking or sell to the US government. It’s not slowing Cuba down.
Even in a country that for decades has been accustomed to frequent outages amid a series of economic crises, the grid failure was unprecedented in modern times,
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They also blamed breakdowns in old thermoelectric plants that haven’t been properly maintained because of a lack of hard currency due to U.S. sanctions, as well as insufficient fuel to operate some facilities.The blockade is clearly the problem. Cuba is under siege and this is an obvious result.
What about the Muslims in china? Lmfao. Gonna accept that genocide yet, Wumao?
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Oh well that settles it
Those ML are such trash.
