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No food, no fuel, no tourists: Under US pressure, life in Cuba grinds to a halt

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Re: No food, no fuel, no tourists: Under US pressure, life in Cuba grinds to a halt

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Post by lovich »

codeadict wrote: post #10
burnt-resistor wrote: post #5

Venezuela's leader-only regime change and tariff threats to Mexico are all about choking off oil to Cuba, in service of the ambitions of Marco Rubio and neocon-inspired Monroe Doctrine neocolonial imperialist aspirations of placing the entirety of the Americas under the boot of the USA... countries are free to hold elections so long as their leader's views and policies are aligned with Washington's or else the CIA co…

Neither Cuba or Venezuela held elections for a while and they put in jail or disappear anybody that says the minimum word about the ruling government, not even fighting just saying anything. (source born and raised in Cuba and all my family lives there, just this week one teacher got 10 years in prison for writing something about the president ). Cuba had oil from Venezuela and instead of using it for the actual peop…

If they had food and fuel previously, and now don’t because of US tensions, then I think definitionally they are worse off.

Re: No food, no fuel, no tourists: Under US pressure, life in Cuba grinds to a halt

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Post by treetalker »

rlili wrote: post #2

What really is the point in maintaining a blockade after the end of the cold war?

To understand fully, consider the South-Florida Cuban, anti-Castro culture of which Rubio is a part, from which he surely feels social and electoral pressure, and to the other members of which he surely owes many favors.

Re: No food, no fuel, no tourists: Under US pressure, life in Cuba grinds to a halt

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Post by burnt-resistor »

codeadict wrote: post #10
burnt-resistor wrote: post #5

Venezuela's leader-only regime change and tariff threats to Mexico are all about choking off oil to Cuba, in service of the ambitions of Marco Rubio and neocon-inspired Monroe Doctrine neocolonial imperialist aspirations of placing the entirety of the Americas under the boot of the USA... countries are free to hold elections so long as their leader's views and policies are aligned with Washington's or else the CIA co…

Neither Cuba or Venezuela held elections for a while and they put in jail or disappear anybody that says the minimum word about the ruling government, not even fighting just saying anything. (source born and raised in Cuba and all my family lives there, just this week one teacher got 10 years in prison for writing something about the president ). Cuba had oil from Venezuela and instead of using it for the actual peop…

That's my point. Regardless of moralizing judgments about which country is more violent, corrupt, or morally "superior", they didn't follow the USA program and suffered the wrath of telling a fragile ego man being told "no thank you". America behaves like gangster and is no better, it merely follows might makes right while lecturing everyone else how everyone else "should" behave.

Re: No food, no fuel, no tourists: Under US pressure, life in Cuba grinds to a halt

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Post by knowitnone3 »

krunck wrote: post #7
rlili wrote: post #2

What really is the point in maintaining a blockade after the end of the cold war?

Because the only way America can claim that socialism is bad is by beating it to a pulp and saying "Look! See how weak and broken it is!"

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Re: No food, no fuel, no tourists: Under US pressure, life in Cuba grinds to a halt

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Post by _zagj »

LunaSea wrote: post #3
rlili wrote: post #2

What really is the point in maintaining a blockade after the end of the cold war?

Provoking a regime change and installing a puppet regime instead.

Hopefully the "puppet regime" will put a stop to the rampant "jineterismo," especially the exploitation of Cuba's children, that the current regime tacitly endorses and allows to flourish to the point where it ought to raise eyebrows when some foreign guy (especially older, uglier, and Canadian) simping for the regime also makes a big show of how often they've been to Cuba and how much they "enjoyed" it, just as it would raise eyebrows if they disclosed that they frequented (and loved) Thailand.

Re: No food, no fuel, no tourists: Under US pressure, life in Cuba grinds to a halt

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Post by _zagj »

rlili wrote: post #2

What really is the point in maintaining a blockade after the end of the cold war?

This is the same Cuba that sent forty thousand mercenaries to kill Ukrainians in the furtherance of Russia's war effort, is openly allied with both Russia and China, and has a well-documented history of willingly serving (in exchange for oil or other assistance) as a platform for hosting foreign military and intelligence assets hostile to the US, including just recently with Havana Syndrome--and it's a mere 90 miles from Florida. And you seriously don't understand why the US wants this regime gone, for good?

And that isn't even to speak about its rampant human rights abuses.

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