Cuba braces for increase in gas prices amid economic crisis
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- Опубликовано: 27 авг 2024
- Residents in Cuba are spending hours in line at gas stations waitiing to fill up their tank as they brace for an increase in gas prices. This comes after the Cuban government announced a proposal to increase the price of gasoline by five hundred percent.
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Blame the government’s not the people
Look at the cars at 1:05 those are like 1958 cars that probably get 5 miles to the gallon.
Junk 😂
I have a 1990 car 19 miles a gallon. Is it like now like 4 gallons a mile?
Have you ever been to Cuba ? The vast majority of cars from the 50's and 60's are just shells of what they used to be. TONS of modifications, just to keep them functional. I've even seen cars that had the drive trains and interiors removed and were being pulled by donkeys and horses ! It is like visiting some kind of surreal time warp. I truly feel sorry for the people though. They deserve a lot better.
@@tonyfulford3175 Yeah, they are definitely incredibly resourceful to keep those cars running. But my point was that these were cars that were built before there was any concern with fuel millage. If you are going to increase the price of gas by 500%, it hurts even more when your cars are all gas hogs.
How can you say these cars are junk if they’re still running after all these years?
Que tristeza para Cuba. Corazones para le gente de Cuba!
El precio de la gasolina tambien subio aqui en estados unidos....
@@diegoflores9237Last I saw, Americans can afford to buy eggs and gas.
The so called cyber attack is a government made excuse for delaying the gasoline price by a month which will take effect tomorrow. I'm British and they make out that the US are the bad guys. Cuba are in the trouble as the people get heavily taxed and businesses
@@diegoflores9237Bet not five fold!!!!
@@purplemist7agree no comparison. Silly comment by him
Maybe normalization with the US should be explored again.
They don't want that otherwise they'd have done so and overthrown Castro in the 60s, they would have left enmasse after the missile crisis, they could have left in the Marial Boat Launch, they could have left when Fidel died, they could have left when the USA started to normalize SOME relations of travel with Cuba, and yet there they are, complaining. We have a better chance of Puerto Rico becoming a state sooner than Cuba being free or able to demonstrate ability to have diplomatic relations with the West.
We feel for THE honest and oppressed people of Cuba. GOD BLESS YOU ALL !
Worry for your own people
Traveling to Cuba in April.. Hopefully they'll pull through.
I was there in December and loved it!! If it’s your first visit, your in for a treat!! Safe travels!!!
It's time for the government of cuba to open the gates of freedom and embrace the outside world.
Cuba should never have double crossed the United States. We were their good neighbor, and they’d have prospered greatly over the decades, if they hadn’t made a pact allowing our adversary to point first strike nukes at us.
Enjoy the life you chose 🎉
If you really believe usa is a good neighbor I have bridge to sell you in Antarctica😂
They traded one dictator for another when Castro came to power. Nearly the whole of the 20th century they have been under a dictatorship.
that was a past generations decision that shouldn't affect the future and current generation. VIVA LA CUBA. Besides, without giving too much info, you truly don't know how capable we're. Consider Florida is just a few hours away :)
Cubans were jealous the Americans had a lot of money and owned a lot of Cuba. It’s similar to what’s going on in Puerto Rico, rich people tax invade and buy up all the land and buildings. Communist usually arises when income inequality and generational
Wealth running rampant.
@@nunyadambusiness3530 I can't even fathom how stupid you have to be to say that past generations mistakes shouldn't affect the future, and then proceed to make baseless threats. Embarassing.
Communism, such a great idea
This is the future of the usa
At 24 Cuban Pesos to the U.S. Dollar, 4,500 pesos for 40 liters of fuel is $187.50. I don't know where else on the planet gasoline is that expensive. Who in Cuba will still be able to drive a car?
The reporter says “the average monthly income is 4000 pesos which is $14”
@@turbo8677that's a lie. 4000 pesos = $166
I thought the going rate of Cuban Peso: U S. $1 was +/- 270 Pesos = $1 🤔
@@Richard-mt4zi I was wrong. There's some sort of official rate that's basically ignored and what it is traded at.
Update: According to comments from Cuba the "informal exchange rate" is now (+/-) $1 U S. = 350 Cuban Pesos...
Cuba traded Venezuelan oil for doctors and medical aid. With US sanctions on PDVSA, not only are thousands of Venezuelans migrating to the US, so are Cubans. These sanctions are costing us millions.
Perhaps the Venezuelans are fed up with dictatorial communist socialism/micro-wages...
Thats crazy, what a corruption.
Maybe the US should do this and get our debt under control
What does it matter how much lower can you go. Starve? 🙄 look at the cars and infrastructure again 🙄
Classic car
@@beautyandthesimp junk not practical for everyday living poor people
Compare this to the Dominican Republic, who have been having an Econ boom for decades.
This is a controlled economy in practice. It sucks.
So will the MAGA party blame Biden for this? Or Obama? or Hilary?
Nope, This is purely communism at play. That is why we all fight against such destructive corrupt ideology.
biden will take care of them in 2 weeks
No but Mexico will blame Biden. As part of a deal for Mexico to slow the flow into America, Mexico's president wants a more normal relationship between DC and Cuba. So yes it's Joe's fault.
This is all Trump when he was in office. They are a communist state, and there are a lot of Cuban exiles my father included. He cater to the voters, and now their people are in poverty because of it.
We don't care enough to assign blame.
Cuba???? I thought only the United States had huge food price increases.
It's global
@@gratefulheart5454 unless self food production. Grow your own food
There's a food shortage due to the war in Ukraine, they were one of the largest producers and exportes of food around the world with that impacted food prices around the world go up. We're all connected in one way or another
Visit Europe or even Alaska or Hawaii and get some price shock what even basic food items cost there...🙄.
Don’t blame nobody
Good luck, Taken
Who cares about cuba.
Cuba could also denounce their form of government and adopt the US constitution and become a state.
they could denounce their government and adopt a constitution similar to the US but I assure you the United States does not want the burden of cuban statehood. A territory like puerto rico maybe, but probably not even that.
it's almost as if socialism doesn't work.@@rabidgoon
Buying egg is luxury
Sad
So why doesn’t Cuba have a great public transportation system?😂
This is going to be America soon.
Not gonna happen
Cyber attack….. Cuba doesn’t even have computers… at least everyone is equal = equally POOR!
How are they poor when they developed covid vaccines before any other Latin American country and before many other countries in the world?
diegofloresLook at the video? Does it look like the people are prospering?
@@diegoflores9237 My dude, I am Cuban and all cuba is good for is exporting doctors to other countries for $$$ while the Cubans are left with no doctors, no supplies, no nothing because everything is sold and exported to other countries while the people are left with the short end of the stick.
Stop listening to ur socialist professors, none of them have lived in a socialist or communist country.
P.S that $$$ that is made by renting the doctos is pocketed by castro and its minions.Doctors get paid peanuts.
@@diegoflores9237search it up, 72% of their population is poor. They prob just allocated all their resources to developing a vaccine
This is anti-cuba propaganda.
Socialism works ..lmmfbo !!
Who cares
I don't see what the problem is. Cubans must be rich. Look at all the classic cars they drive. Some of those cars must be worth tens of thousands of dollars.
Use pedal power car
Don't come here
Gotta love communism ❤
They should ask Venezuela for some gas❤
Relations between Cuba and Venezuela fell off after the Embargo lift with Obama. We support Haiti more than Cuba.
Flintstone cars!! 🤣🤣🤣2024 is a bad time to be a communist
just great...more cubans coming to america...
Communism. Not even once.
Elo Musk needs to ship thousands of EV s there...come on rich Musk DO IT ..
With 12-18 hour electricity blackouts ? No recharge stations..$10-$20/month income.Virtually no one in Cuba could afford a EV car anyway.In the current state of affairs--EV cars in Cuba is fantasyland...
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Welcome to the new world.
Drop sanctions on Cuba
Dominican Republic is the only Caribbean island still getting visitors, all others are in a continual down spiral, even the ones getting uncle Sam’s cash.
Not Porter Rico?
You mean Puerto Rico and USVI, cause those are the only ones there getting "Uncle Sam's Cash"
I live in P.R and your 1000000000000%right@@celebrityrog