Cuba’s government has spent the last days attempting to get the island’s national grid functioning after repeated island-wide blackouts. Without power, sleep becomes difficult in the heat, food spoils and the water supply fails.
Parts of Cuba’s communist system still function: the municipality sent Maria food. “We are three families here,” she said. “I live alone, the lady who lives next to me [does] also, and there are two children, the children’s mother, her aunt and an elderly man.”
A week after the blackout, the island has returned to the status quo ante with regular power cuts of up to 20 hours a day. But the crisis has left a deep, melancholy dread about the future.
Brace yourself for waves of future Miami republican voters arriving from Cuba
Well, we can blame both of our right-wing parties for contributing to the situation by enforcing the longest running embargo. The first break from this was during the Obama administration, but it was too little too late, and we immediately returned to the previous status quo.
It’s not just an embargo, it’s a criminal blockade that every UN country except the US, Israel and Ukraine has agreed should end.
You’d think Ukraine would have some charity towards another oppressed state. I guess money speaks louder.
You’d think Ukraine would have some charity towards another oppressed state.
The US, Israel and Ukraine can get fucked. Other countries should ignore their bull shit bullying and help Cuba. The US and Israel and international bullies and have gotten thousands killed.
The break during the Obama administration caused Florida to turn red.
No party in the US is going to touch Cuba until there is a regime change which Cuban expats approve of.
This is simply Cuban’s punishing Cubans.
Boomers migrating down caused it to turn red.
Cubans are a minority, Florida is a combination of Cuban, southern, and retired boomer, it’s staying red for a century.
So, I’m just spitballing here, but maybe we could send a cvn down to help? Think 1 could power the island itself.
Like, as a gesture of good will?
are you serious? and I don’t mean that as an insult, I’m actually unsure if you are serious.
a total collapse of Cuba is the whole reason the US has been blockading them for half a century.
infrastructure collapse is happening specifically because the US won’t allow Cuba to make infrastructure deals and technology deals with other countries without facing explicit and implicit sanctions and severe material limits.
desperate poverty is exactly what the US government has been working towards inflicting on Cuba for decades.
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