Posted on 03/20/2024 9:03:38 AM PDT by EBH
Protests have continued this week in Cuba over one of the island’s worst ever economic and energy crises as food shortages and blackouts push the country toward the "verge of collapse."
Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio took to X on Tuesday to say the disastrous situation was down to Cuba’s long-standing Marxist policies.
"The reason Cuba is on the verge of collapse is because Marxism always leads to hunger, poverty and shortages," Rubio said
The senator, an ardent critic of the Cuban regime, took to the social media platform to push back on accusations levied by the Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío, who suggested in a Monday interview with the Associated Press that the food shortages were due to the U.S.’s longstanding embargoes.
Fernández de Cossío accused the U.S. of "open interference [in] Cuba’s domestic affairs" after the State Department on Monday called on Havana to respect the protesters and "attend to the legitimate needs of the Cuban people."
"It was also cynical, as we said publicly, and hypocritical because it was referring to issues that are occurring in Cuba in which there’s an import and responsibility from the U.S. government," Fernández de Cossío said, calling the comments "disrespectful."
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Cuba has been on the verge of collapse since 1959
Don’t look for help from the US.
NO energy for YOU!
Eat zee bugs and be happy.
Net Zer0 ist Wunderbar. -Klaus Schwab.
Welcome to the new world order and your 15 minute ‘hood.
Bill Gate$ [and Karl Marx] approves.
Cubans stage rare protests amid blackouts, persisting economic crisis
https://youtu.be/bb_GyJzCgUk?si=LmOUyPcXNn2hGKSR
News about food, shortages, and Cuba
NBC News and 3 more • Updated 10 hours ago
https://youtu.be/b0aQjjn_tEk?si=2ja_SZ7khBrJsDSp
Well, as always Russia is coming to the rescue of Cuba.
The Kremlin Neo-soviets are always supporting the communists all over the planet.
The Russia / North Korea / Hamas / Iran alliance is getting stronger. Millions of North Korean shells have already been shipped to Russia, so they can continue to hit Europe non-stop.
Russia is betting big on Cuba as it courts alternative economic partners
https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-economy-moscow-cuba-trade-partnership-sanctions-2024-3
No wonder I've been feeling hungry and short of money lately.
On the upside, the communists did find out that starvation and no electricity help a lot with Cuba’s carbon footprint. So there’s that.
According to the goons of the WEF, Cuba should be a paradise on Earth.
Hearing from Cuban friends that this very serious.Maybe the Cubans still there can cook all the tourist for dinner.
Can Chuck Schumer recommend that the Cuban government be overthrown? Or does he only recommend that for allies?
The US will certainly help put down the protesters if nothing else.
Anyone remember the Americans that went to Cuba while that fag Obama was president and the Cuban government blasted them with a brain scrambling ray?
The tobacco industry is producing less than half what it was three years ago—not sure about the sugar industry but it is probably similar.
Is medical care still an attraction to travel to Cuba now?
Maybe with kevlar vests and metal helmets as people arrive?
Leftists in the US acclaimed the superior healthcare system in Cuba for years.
Medical Tourism to Cuba:
“Thousands of people from other countries go to Cuba each year for what is known as medical tourism: travel abroad for surgery or other medical care, often because the treatment is less expensive there or is not available where patients live.” NYT
RETURN TRIP
The small egg returns to the last, aging omelet chef.
Thousands are patient in line with washed clean, empty plates.
Now fill out this form here in triplicate. Sign on the bottom and wait.
Where is it already? Da soivice in dis joint stinks!
The floor’s slippery. Must make an omelet
Without any frying pan, only a fire.
But this one will be my special dish.
He’ll sit on my knee and make happy face.
Symbol! We must have new symbol
I’m sure will not clash with
My lifelong interior design.
So first I will see that
His mind is right.
And when he gazes at sea far below him,
Remembers the wave that jumped down his throat, up his nose,
How it sucked at him so hungrily as he clung tight,
Called out for familiar one, “mama!”,
Dorsal fin present no more (“see ya later, kid”),
In the mean time, mi papa is there
Hold hand love-rub squeeze
“I would protect him, too,” Elian said to self,
“If papa were hostage of ogres, what would I not do?”,
Juan Miguel, too, repeated, his parents still held in Havana.
And Isaac lay back on the altar, exposing his throat.
And the shark is still circling the inner tube.
Let them eat Haitians
Via Cuba Libre! Let Cuba be Free!
I hear AIDS steaks and mojitos pair well…
And get grilling tips from Haiti.
Obama also told the people of Iran to pound salt.
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