You should note: before the Cuban Revolution, 90% of sugar plantations in Cuba were owned by Americans. It was basically a huge brothel and casino for rich Americans who exploited the average Cubans. The working class suffered IMMENSELY even if the GDP was high. Racism and sexism were rampant. The entire country was run by rich white cubans and Americans. It’s important to note that.
Batista the tyrant before Castro was just as bad in many way back then. The US own that island, plus the cooly colony of PR. That worst part was the US retaliating with the help of rich Cuban to embargo. If it wasent for the embargo Cuba today would be the Star of the Caribbean.
Communism only works in theory. What Cuba has is dictatorship. With the help of the rich and first cubans that left the island help keep that embargo going. Which has keep Cuba down all this years.
@@PietriGuitars Batista wasent communism, he was a murderer, thief who fleight the country with millions. Ties to organize crime, and a playground to drugs and prostitution for the Americans and other democratic countries. Before Castro, there was Batista the democratic cuban monster.
@@PietriGuitars then remove the embargo and let's see them fail. Oh wait, they've been pretty successful even with an embargo, nevermind... wouldn't want cuba becoming extremely prosperous to show the world that workers CAN rule a country without capitalists.
@@PietriGuitars It’s almost like… if the largest empire in the world spends billions of dollars making sure communism fails through coups, proxy wars, sanctions, regime change, and preventing free and fair elections ESPECIALLY when leftist leaders are democratically elected, socialism suffers as a result. Crazy how cause and effect work huh.
FYI: Cuba and The USA do have diplomatic relations. Might not always be the best, but they do exist. The US embassy in Havana offers US Citizens the same consular services offered by other consulates.
The implication that before the revolution, Cuba was "one of the most advanced and successful countries in Latin America" is obscene. Just one hundred years before the revolution, 43% of the country's population were slaves (Source: Migration and Culture: A Case Study of Cuba, 1750-1900, Franklin W. Knight.") If you read any of the texts from people who were actually there, life was miserable for the entirety of the working class. The cities were little more than casinos, resorts, and whore-houses for rich American businessmen, while the countryside just served as a giant sugar-plantation for the USA. To quote Michael Parenti's "Blackshirts and Reds": Mike Faulkner (who visited the island in the late 1950s) witnessed "a spectacle of almost unrelieved poverty." The rural population lived in makeshift shacks without minimal sanitation. Malnourished children went barefoot in the dirt and suffered "the familiar plague of parasites common to the Third World." There were almost no doctors or schools. And through much of the year, families that depended solely on the seasonal sugar harvest lived close to starvation (Monthly Review; 3/96).
I have a friend still stranded at Havana Airport Cuba,so difficult to go out from there,He has spend alot of monay but not working,now he stayed suffering day by day,just God know how will be next 😥
Why do you tell people to move to Cuba when the natives are going in their own country for a better future in other countries? I might be American, but I come from Cuban parents and grandparents who left their country of origin for a better future. Arrive in a totally different country with another culture and language to have a better future and give your children and families a good life expectancy! Cuba is a place without freedom and without free expression, something that every human being has their rights!
I’m Cuban. Cuba is beautiful place. But who in their right mind would want to live in a communist country. Haven’t you been paying attention as to how people are actually dying trying to escape. Terrible place to live”At This Moment in Time”. Maybe in the future when things change politically.
I think that if you get an American social security check of $850 a month then you can rent a house (even if without furniture) and then you can buy some furniture from IKEA, as well as import an alternative power generator and electricity stabilizer for your electronics and you can effectively live like anywhere else
@@PietriGuitars my father is Russian and my mother is Ukrainian so unless you're also from the USSR or a fellow sympathetic country, I think I am in a better situation to know what is or isn't possible in a communist country. My own father used to sell soap wholesale to Libyan students in the late 80s. He learned English from smuggled Terminator movies. There's plenty of returning diaspora Cubans who are packing their suitcases with supplies like medicine and diapers and stuff that we take for granted in the west but they are selling for 5 to 10 times the price on the island. Foreigners and returning Cubans are allowed to pack a container with their own personal belongings and so buying furniture to outfit your house in IKEA off of the island and then shipping the stuff into your house is just as easy as the rich Arabs in the Gulf that are building houses out of marble that obviously didn't come from under the sand and had to be imported... We have this amazing feat of human innovation cold cargo ships and another phenomena called "bribing custom officials to allow into the country what you shouldn't otherwise be able to have". It's how capitalistic countries have Colombian cocaine entering Italy and then moving onto the rest of Europe.
You should note: before the Cuban Revolution, 90% of sugar plantations in Cuba were owned by Americans. It was basically a huge brothel and casino for rich Americans who exploited the average Cubans. The working class suffered IMMENSELY even if the GDP was high. Racism and sexism were rampant. The entire country was run by rich white cubans and Americans. It’s important to note that.
Batista the tyrant before Castro was just as bad in many way back then. The US own that island, plus the cooly colony of PR. That worst part was the US retaliating with the help of rich Cuban to embargo. If it wasent for the embargo Cuba today would be the Star of the Caribbean.
Communism only works in theory.
What Cuba has is dictatorship. With the help of the rich and first cubans that left the island help keep that embargo going. Which has keep Cuba down all this years.
@@PietriGuitars Batista wasent communism, he was a murderer, thief who fleight the country with millions. Ties to organize crime, and a playground to drugs and prostitution for the Americans and other democratic countries. Before Castro, there was Batista the democratic cuban monster.
@@PietriGuitars then remove the embargo and let's see them fail. Oh wait, they've been pretty successful even with an embargo, nevermind... wouldn't want cuba becoming extremely prosperous to show the world that workers CAN rule a country without capitalists.
@@PietriGuitars It’s almost like… if the largest empire in the world spends billions of dollars making sure communism fails through coups, proxy wars, sanctions, regime change, and preventing free and fair elections ESPECIALLY when leftist leaders are democratically elected, socialism suffers as a result. Crazy how cause and effect work huh.
I feel a hundred times safer around Cubans than I do when Im in Dominican Republic.
FYI: Cuba and The USA do have diplomatic relations. Might not always be the best, but they do exist. The US embassy in Havana offers US Citizens the same consular services offered by other consulates.
Cuba is very special, cleanest and safest country in caribbean, as they are isolated
Not clean at all. I’ve seen piles of trash on there streets that have not been picked up for days.
@@tavroaar8173 you see that in "rich" countries as well. I see it all the time in the states.
Colombian here when’s the last time you were in Cuba?
Maybe in 1980
Cuba is not what are you saying, I'm cuban and my country is bad, very bad place to live. If you are not cuban, yo don't know anything.
The US embargo limits what Cuba can offer. Would've been good to mention.
I have thought about moving there. Friendly people. My dollar goes a lot farther there.
Not any more it doesn't
@@jonhelmer8591why not?
Umm, the opposite is true. Check the exchange rate
Please out
Este video es sobre la historia de cuba
The implication that before the revolution, Cuba was "one of the most advanced and successful countries in Latin America" is obscene.
Just one hundred years before the revolution, 43% of the country's population were slaves (Source: Migration and Culture: A Case Study of Cuba, 1750-1900, Franklin W. Knight.")
If you read any of the texts from people who were actually there, life was miserable for the entirety of the working class. The cities were little more than casinos, resorts, and whore-houses for rich American businessmen, while the countryside just served as a giant sugar-plantation for the USA.
To quote Michael Parenti's "Blackshirts and Reds":
Mike Faulkner (who visited the island in the late 1950s) witnessed "a spectacle of almost unrelieved poverty." The rural population lived in makeshift shacks without minimal sanitation. Malnourished children went barefoot in the dirt and suffered "the familiar plague of parasites common to the Third World." There were almost no doctors or schools. And through much of the year, families that depended solely on the seasonal sugar harvest lived close to starvation (Monthly Review; 3/96).
This videos is about Cuba history.
Make one about Belgium plz
Anybody knows how to buy property in Cuba?
Take the money there in a suitcase!
Why would you own property in a Communist country? Are you crazy?
Thanks
Nice
YOU Will Need A VISA FOR USA IF you GO To CUBA
Are you just reading the Wikipedia page on Cuba....
I have a friend still stranded at Havana Airport Cuba,so difficult to go out from there,He has spend alot of monay but not working,now he stayed suffering day by day,just God know how will be next 😥
Its not an Island ...its an archipelago
Why do you tell people to move to Cuba when the natives are going in their own country for a better future in other countries? I might be American, but I come from Cuban parents and grandparents who left their country of origin for a better future. Arrive in a totally different country with another culture and language to have a better future and give your children and families a good life expectancy! Cuba is a place without freedom and without free expression, something that every human being has their rights!
shut up ralph
I’m Cuban. Cuba is beautiful place. But who in their right mind would want to live in a communist country. Haven’t you been paying attention as to how people are actually dying trying to escape. Terrible place to live”At This Moment in Time”. Maybe in the future when things change politically.
you do not live in cuba because people don’t die trying to escape
Communisim is great bro literally stfu
I think that if you get an American social security check of $850 a month then you can rent a house (even if without furniture) and then you can buy some furniture from IKEA, as well as import an alternative power generator and electricity stabilizer for your electronics and you can effectively live like anywhere else
@@MuzzaHukka uhm 😐 are you delusional?
@@PietriGuitars my father is Russian and my mother is Ukrainian so unless you're also from the USSR or a fellow sympathetic country, I think I am in a better situation to know what is or isn't possible in a communist country. My own father used to sell soap wholesale to Libyan students in the late 80s. He learned English from smuggled Terminator movies. There's plenty of returning diaspora Cubans who are packing their suitcases with supplies like medicine and diapers and stuff that we take for granted in the west but they are selling for 5 to 10 times the price on the island. Foreigners and returning Cubans are allowed to pack a container with their own personal belongings and so buying furniture to outfit your house in IKEA off of the island and then shipping the stuff into your house is just as easy as the rich Arabs in the Gulf that are building houses out of marble that obviously didn't come from under the sand and had to be imported... We have this amazing feat of human innovation cold cargo ships and another phenomena called "bribing custom officials to allow into the country what you shouldn't otherwise be able to have". It's how capitalistic countries have Colombian cocaine entering Italy and then moving onto the rest of Europe.
You are crazy! To move to Cuba is like going to a prison
I know
@Schrödingers Katze Brazil isn't a liberal democracy, at least judging by recent right wing leaders.
Ur brainwashed man