Posted on 03/19/2024 9:07:35 AM PDT by re_tail20
The crisis in Cuba has seen its government approach the United Nations for aid to address its food shortage, as residents take to the streets in a rare sign of social unrest
Cuba is "on the verge of total collapse" as the country has been hit by blackouts with residents taking to the streets calling for "food and power".
The crisis has seen the Cuban government approach the United Nations for aid to address its food shortage. As the Caribbean island goes through its harshest economic crisis in three decades, the communist regime is resorting to hitherto unseen cries for help to other countries.
The country has been hit by US restrictions, a weak tourism industry, and a decaying domestic product which has left the proud independent nation on it's knees. In an article for Bloomberg, author Juan Pablo Spinetto writes that the situation has brought about a rare display of social unrest.
He adds that last time it happened, in July 2021, the regime contained it with crushing force.
Spinetto writes that the economic situation is a huge challenge for the Communist Party of Cuba that has controlled the nation’s life since Fidel Castro’s revolution in 1959.
He says that despite the archaic embargo posted on the nation by the US during the Cold War, it is not responsible for the food shortage, since Cuba has been able to import more than $7 billion worth of agricultural produce since 2001.
Spinetto adds that the embargo is also not responsible for the departure of 5% of Cuba's population (more than half a million residents) between 2021 and 2023. He says: "These are young, educated Cubans escaping hunger, economic mismanagement and political repression."
Spinetto writes that the crisis can’t be fixed "without fundamentally changing the country’s centralized, state-controlled model where bureaucrats...
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Net Zer0 ist Wunderbar.....
Just in-time for this election steal — I mean cycle.
Yeah but they all have college degrees so it’s all good 👍
And sooper dooper health care!
Basically, Cuba has been dependent on foreign aid to keep itself from a complete collapse, but the parties generally giving them aid has all had there own fires to put out and can’t really worry about them. The Russian-Ukraine is vacuuming up most of the world’s available aid.
I wuz told this couldn’t happen with communism…
Therefore this is not troo communism.
Nikita Bidenskyyyyyyyyyyy has got the airliners warming up to haul all the Cubanskis to America. This Great Bidneskyyyyyyyy migration program is taking one hell of a toll on Johnny Kerry’s “enviomen”. If this nasty crap keeps up, Joe Pedo could be looking at 250 million mail ins in November.
And really long life-expectancy! It’s kind of shocking that a nation with a 12-month growing season, the best medical system, school system, and economic system in the world would be having trouble keeping the lights on and the people fed.
The world’s elites are preparing to abandon their mainland lairs and relocate to Maui, Haiti, Cuba, Gaza seafront, and any other nice place they have burned down to get the riff-raff out.
Oh the darlings of the liberal left utopia, we want to be just like them. Finally a place like Cuba and Haiti that the hate trumpers can bask in when he is elected
Nope. Sucks to be you.
So we are going to bail out Cuba
And Haiti
Fight WWIII in Ukraine
Support Israel
Fund 10 million illegal Aliens by spending $9000 per month direct cash payments per illegal and giving them unlimited free health care and free airline tickets to where ever they want to go
Fund government provided free abortions on demand
Pay the homeless a living wage to live on the sidewalks
Eliminate all college entrance and professional certification standards for a some DEI agenda
Eliminate fossils fuels and convert to a green economy by 2030 using Democrat mandated , Chinese manufactured wind turbines, solar panels and electric vehicles
Good luck with that
All of the “good” people previously holding these small countries together are now here illegally, causing their home countries to collapse. Expect the situation to get worse, not better.
We need to bring in more people from failed countries so that our country can fail too!
Cubans: Give us freedom!
Americans: Give us marxism!
In other word, just another day in a socialist paradise.
But the useful idiot’s quote of “any dictator who gives me free medical treatment, is a dictator I like!”…… wonder if he should add electricity and food to his list of dictator criteria?
Why can’t we divert all illegals, er, I mean newcomers, to Cuba?
Trump!!!!!! /s
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