Several years ago I worked with a Cuban woman. She told me that one of the essential things guaranteed by the government was cigars. Her uncle had several kids, but he didn't smoke, so he traded his cigars for milk. He was arrested for black market trading and spent two years in prison.
@@C21H30O2 Don't conflate a failing state which tried switching systems too fast and while not fully prepared with an entire side of the political spectrum, that's foolish behaviour.
That’s normal practice in post Sowiet world, in my country we even have a word for it „załatwić” witch in translateion would be something like „done/ get done/ get it”. What it actually means is to get somethin done ore get an item in not quite „cryminal” way but you couldn’t do in normal/ official way😅. For exsample: You have moved into new apartament, now you have no furniture so you call your uncle that works in sawmill or building materials factory or furniture factory so he can „get” you materials or furniture made, then you go to your friend farmer who has a car (coz if not in party or work with it you probably don’t have one) with a bottle of vodka to and ask him to go pick it up for you in dome free time for something ( probably a favour or vodka/ cigaretes) and he’d say „załatwione”
My dad was stationed at Gitmo during the Cuban Missile crises. He was a squad leader for base defense. One day he was running a practice drill with a few companies when he led his squad down into a ditch just off the side from a road, along some sort of retainer wall holding the road up and down into a wooded thicket. He and his men were attempting to figure out where they were supposed to actually be at while a company of marines headed by a lieutenant were running along the road. This lieutenant spotted a bunch of sailors down in this muddy little wooded area and called his company to a halt before approaching the side of the road. As my dad said, the lieutenant yelled "Hey sailors!" My dad, who was reading a map with one of his men looked up and yelled back, "Yes sir?" The lieutenant replied, "You're in the mine field!" Aghast, my dad and his men all looked around them, and sure enough there was a bunch of freshly dug pits with active anti-personnel mines littering the place that hadn't been appropriately marked. So he told his men to very carefully retrace their steps back up onto the road. He told me a few of them needed new pants. 😂
My wife is from El Salvador and she was studying to be a doctor, they had a program down there to where they can go to Cuba and get their doctor's degree for "free", but they had to live there for many years after in order to "pay back" the state, her friend took the program and told her it was horrible if you didn't get certain grades or complete certain tasks you were denied food as a punishment, it was so bad that it made El Salvador look rich compared to Cuba and this was back in the late 90s.
Actually, providing free medical school in exchange for working in rural areas for 5 years as a doctor is not a bad idea. It gives rural areas access to medical care and gives students without funds opportunity to study medicine. The US used to have a GI bill that provided similar opportunities to people in military service.
@@jpny4750 that's not a bad deal, the Cuban one you were basically a slave to the government, her friend was lucky enough to be able to go back to El Salvador some get stuck there longer or worse
Thats nonsense. After graduation you are not supposed to work in a rural area in Cuba, but in your country of origin. And once you are in your home country, the cuban government can't force you to do anything, including paying for your education or working in a designated area. Loss of homologation for your title can only happen if your local authorities enforce the agreement (thats even assuming they have one)
I seem to recall Peter Zeihan stating that the last thing a government does before it dies is restrict the supply of food. Obviously it isn't framing it that way, but the Cuban government stating that it has the ability to "guarantee the supply of" food until June does sound a lot like the same thing, especially when it has the distribution system locked down.
To me it sounds like they are struggling with importing food due to the economic factors. So they likely mean that " we have bought food in advance so until June we can be sure that food is coming in on time, after that it will get tricky and sporadic."
@@lordInquisitor Probably right on the money. I suspect this would be an excellent time for an adroid US diplomat to negotiate an end to to the Cuban Embargo in return for opening up Cuba to the Western World.
@@tauceti8060 the embargo excuse is a copout, many other nations (Canada, Mexico, Europe, China and Russia most notably) have all had trade relations with Cuba. But Castro's Cuba was notorious about not paying it's bills for the goods they received, so countries limited how much business they'd risk doing with Cuba.
@@tauceti8060I do think it is partly responsible but I think the Covid 19 global lockdowns were the main cause of the current situation with the Embargo being the cherry on top of the collapsing economy.
Excellent video. I'm Cuban Canadian since 1988. All you have covered is nothing but the cruel truth. PATRIA Y VIDA. FREEDOM FOR MORE THAN 1200 POLITICAL PRISONER, INCLUDING CHILDREN. Thanks again💖❤️💕
Amigo mio, parece que usted, o no ha investigado a fondo la situación, ha sido víctima de mentiras difundidas por manipuladores, o incluso puede ser uno de esos mismos individuos mencionados anteriormente, "financiados" por los "halcones" cubano-americanos del Partido Republicano con intereses creados con la mafia de Miami. Es impactante ver como EL AGRESOR logra convencer a los AGREDIDOS e incautos desinformados, de que ellos y su gobierno son los responsables de TODOS sus males y vicisitudes. Permítanme ahora exponerles la situación, que existe en Cuba, con respecto a la violación masiva, de sus derechos humanos, impuesta por los Estados Unidos. Mi nombre es Álvaro, soy un viejo cubano de 88 años. Antes que nada quiero aclarar que NO estoy involucrado con ninguna organización, ya sea política o de otro tipo. Desapruebo firmemente de las personas que difunden desinformación a cuenta de recibir “subsidios” y se aprovechan de aquellos que por ser ingenuos o por falta de conocimientos. Espero que esto aclare cualquier posible malentendido. Hace años, al enterarme de todas las dificultades que padecía mi querido terruño y su GENTE, me he concentrado en buscar la manera de ayudar a calmar dicho sufrimiento. He investigado, física y electrónicamente, toda la información que he podido encontrar sobre la situación en Cuba. Ahora permítanme darles mi humilde opinión sobre lo que he podido comprobar buscando en fuentes fiables y comprobables. Durante la administración de Obama, hubieron conversaciones y acuerdos entre dicho gobierno y el Cubano, apoyados por la Iglesia Católica Cubana, el Papa Francisco y algunos progresistas Cubano-Americanos. Dicho acuerdo ya estaban en marcha durante la visita de Obama a Cuba. Apostaba por el controlado CAMBIO HACIA LA APERTURA del país, permitiendo que los trabajadores autónomos, “cuentapropistas”, pudieran desarrollarse y comerciar libremente, y al impulso y desarrollo de las importantes industrias del turismo y del ya sofisticado sector farmacéutico y biotecnológico. No hay que olvidar que se permitía también hacer compras en Los Estados Unidos, a la apertura de su turismo y a la libre transferencias de remesas. Fue más extenso pero lo anterior era la base del mimo. Con la implementación de este acuerdo se evitó la conocida injerencia que suele imponer el todopoderoso vecino del norte a nuestra querida "América" - entiéndase por "América" ambos continentes y el Caribe - y no como Estados Unidos. Además, se impidieron tácticas INTERVENCIONISTAS de los "halcones" del Partido REPUBLICANO, como el Senador Rubio, otros políticos cubano-americanos, el Senador Menéndez del Partido Demócrata y los descendientes de ex-terratenientes y “batistianos", atrincherados en Miami, ansioso por obtener los votos críticos de los delegados de las primarias de Florida para el Partido REPUBLICANO. RECORDEMOS TODOS LOS BENEFICIOS QUE OBTUVIERON LAS FAMILIAS CUBANAS DURANTE EL PERÍODO PRESIDENCIAL DE OBAMA. Soy consciente de que muchos culpan al gobierno cubano de TODOS los problemas del país. Aunque en parte es cierto, olvidan algo crucial (Cita, Wikipedia). Aunque las medidas estadounidenses contra Cuba no equivalen a un bloqueo en un sentido técnico o formal, su efecto acumulativo es imponer un "dominio estrangulado" económico sobre la isla, que no sólo impide las relaciones comerciales de los Estados Unidos sino que también bloquea efectivamente el comercio con otros estados, sus ciudadanos y empresas, y también prohíbe a las filiales extranjeras de empresas estadounidenses comerciar con Cuba; además, las empresas con sede en Estados Unidos y las empresas que hacen negocios con Estados Unidos, que comercian en Cuba, lo hacen a riesgo de sanciones estadounidenses. (Fin de la cita.) Si bien el pretexto para las acciones de Estados Unidos contra Cuba ha cambiado a lo largo de seis décadas, los objetivos NO. EL OBJETIVO quedó claro en un memorando nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/27400-document-1-state-department-memorandum-decline-and-fall-castro-secret-april-6-1960 de abril de 1960 escrito por Lester D. Mallory, subsecretario de Estado estadounidense, quien recomendó medidas “para debilitar la vida económica de Cuba. . . CAUSAN HAMBRE, DESESPERACIÓN Y DERROCAMIENTO DEL GOBIERNO”. Lo que Lester D. Mallory concibió fue un genocidio planificado, una horrenda violación de los derechos humanos, y al derecho a la salud. Además, conociendo que Cuba apenas posee recursos naturales, sabían que esto agravaría el daño al país. El embargo ha ido mucho más allá y ha provocado una fuga de cerebros, donde muchos de los mejores y más brillantes profesionales abandonan el país, exacerbando la ya precaria situación médica, educativa e industrial del país. Esta presentación arroja luz sobre el principal responsable de las dificultades que enfrentan los cubanos y hay varios factores que han contribuido a esta lamentable situación: A. La razón principal es el CRUEL embargo que se le impone primordialmente a las FAMILIAS cubanas hace más de 60 años, exacerbado en su intensificación por parte del (%?#) Trump. B. La pandemia ha agravado aún más la situación al reducir en un 95%, aproximadamente, la principal fuente de divisas del país…el turismo. C. Las sanciones económicas impuestas por los Estados Unidos a Venezuela han provocado una disminución devastadora en las importaciones de petróleo, estando Cuba prevista como el segundo receptor de dichas sanciones. D. No se pueden ignorar las errores y malas decisiones cometidas por el gobierno cubano. A continuación puede ver dos fehacientes EVIDENCIAS y VIDEOS concernientes al embargo. 1- Verá al ex analista senior de la CIA Fulton Armstrong admitiendo en (Deutsche Welle*) la influencia de Estados Unidos en las protestas actuales. EE. UU. invierte millones "para derrumbar al régimen cubano" ruclips.net/video/Q5CYJ2YpOto/видео.html Fulton Armstrong reconoce que "el factor que más impacta" la crisis cubana "es el EMBARGO norteamericano".- (La entrevista fue realizada en castellano) (*Deutsche Welle) es una emisora pública internacional alemana de propiedad estatal financiada por el presupuesto fiscal federal alemán. 2- El embargo estadounidense después de sesenta años” ruclips.net/video/me_SwEBuv_A/видео.html (Lo siento, la entrevista fue realizada en inglés) Sólo cito un resumen del prólogo de Gail Reed, editora ejecutiva de Medicc Review: “Lo que estamos viendo en el caso de Cuba es una violación masiva de los derechos humanos, el derecho a la vida y el derecho a la salud de 11 millones de personas. Encontremos manera de hacer que más personas e influyentes en los Estados Unidos les importe levantar éste embargo y quitarle la bota del cuello al pueblo cubano.” Espero que ahora le resulte más fácil hacer sus propias conclusiones sobre el motivo principal de la catástrofe cubana.
Cuba has the same weather as Dominican Republic... While Dominican Republic produces 80% of it's s food! Locally Cuba or Cuban authorities have not figured out how to do that in 63 years! Farmers in Cuba are basically slaves, they invest out of pocket and work the land just for the government to come over and pay whatever amount they see fit and if you refuse they simply take everything and throw you in jail! So who's going to work in those conditions? Is not a "US embargo" or "Blockade" is the internal government itself who keeps Cuba a failed economy.
People really seem to fail at the “you can’t just steal farmers food” problem. The Soviets did it. The nazis did it. The Chinese did it. All had pretty bad famines. We’ve seen Venezuela try to do it, but at least they didn’t stop trading with the world, so while the impact has been bad, it has overall not been as bad as the previously mentioned
The Dominican Republic uses literal slavery, so I wouldn't hold them up on a pedestal like that. They also absolutely do import food, much like Cuba needs to.
@@wta1518 Slaves? Are you out of your mind? 🤣 I'm guessing you're referring to cheaper labor from immigrants? Well that's false most of the plantations are run by locals and even if they used the cheaper manpower isn't that what all super powers do? Are we playing the victims again? Are we ignoring that Latinos do work the country in the USA and Canada while the locals don't? Either way no body is being forced or doing it or free! Plus how do you call what Cuba is doing? Working for no pay and sometimes working at a loss.
Bread and circuses is what keeps people sated even in awful situations. Without those people start getting mad and fear gives way to hate very quickly. Cuba used to have tons of farms that were taken when the government went commie but so far much of the land has been left underdeveloped or not used at all.
Yes, but those farms weren't for the people, they were sugar cane plantations owned by corporations for export to the US. As horrible as they are, Cuba's current conditions are an improvement over the American occupation and Batista's subsequent puppet government that came before. A fact the US is trying to mask with crippling sanctions.
They do that to Brazil too, exporting doctors that need to send back 75% of their earnings. Leftist governments will always end up exploiting their people when there is no more money to steal.
Communism or more specifically socialism has a lot more in common with old feudal states than I think anyone would be willing to admit. The major differences come from it not being a hereditary nobility, but there is definitely a form of nobility there.
Also, it wasn't just to Venezuela, I know people that went on this missions (as they called them) to countries in Africa and other countries in Latin America. In Brazil they were poorly received by the local doctors. So what they would do is charge the countries X amount for the labour of the specialist (it wasn't just doctors) and then turn around and pay the specialist in Cuban currency, at like a 10th of what they were charging for this services
It is... but do you know WHY they are forced to do so? A part of the US embargo involves the automatic seizing of all Cuban transactions in US dollars by any bank. And oil producing countries are forced to sell oil in US dollars or see themselves under err... the immediate effect of managed democracy. So it 100% makes sense for Cuba to trade their workforce for oil in Venezuela, and for the Venezuelan government to accept Cuba's help to remain in power by either providing medical (and social) services to the population for almost nothing and keep them happy(ish) and intelligence, training and others to keep them in power. They are not even ideologically aligned, Chávez and Maduro went the god fearing, miracle making populist little tyrant route that is anathema to the Cuban own brand of socialism.
It's funny because people buy cars as an investment that would be considered not road worthy but any civilized country and a 10 year old corolla goes for like 70k USD
Last I heard (1980s), Cuba was the primo source for parts for old cars, because they still made new, factory-specification or improved, stuff for cars from the 1950s and even 1960s. Got a Desoto? They had the parts. The hard part was having to route payment and shipment through former French colonies, repackaging as made there.
13:51 I heard a lot about the crisis cause one of my teachers was a cuban immigrant that escaped in one of those rafts She came to argentina, aa she had been rejected assylum in chile She was a really nice woman, she lost her mother during the crossing, as a sudden storm hit the raft they were on And of course to this day she is a avid extremly vocal anti comunist/socialist
@BioHunter1990 she was extremely sweet and a teacher and worked as a therapeutic companion for the special education children, even helping them find jobs once they graduated high school Tho because she left Cuba illegal, she can not come back, leaving a lot of her family behind
This video does a pretty good job of summarizing Cuban History but there are some dangerous inaccuracies in its retelling 1. The United States did not turn the tide of the Cuban War for Independence, there is a reason why the War ended just a few months after their intervention, more than half of the country was already in rebel hands by 1898 and Spain had almost lost complete political power over the island. The wrongful idea that the USA had a large role in the success of a war that was already half won was the precise reason why they were able to exclude Cubans who had sacrificed the most from the peace talks with Spain. 2. From the creation of the republic in 1902 up to the Castro Regime, only two dictators ruled, Machado (1925 -1933) and Batista (1952-1958), the rest were democratically elected heads of state, albeit corrupt most of the time. Nevertheless, to think of the Republic of Cuba as a series of dictators takes away from the period when it was most prosperous and free and its successes like the 1940 Constitution.
But they did have a very important paper in the war. In the same vein as the USA wouldn't have won its war against the british without Spain And France being at war with England, without the USA steam rolling the Spanish forces, the Cubans would have had a much more difficult time to take the island back once it was reinforced. Now, mind you, I say this as a Spanish, not an American. Wich is why the Maine "incident" happened. That allowed the USA to declare war agaisnt a very weakened Spain.
Im not an expert on the Cuban war for independence, however, as I understand it, the US played the same role in Cuban independence as France did in American independence. That is, primarily, making sure that independence movement had the opportunity to win. Spain could continue to throw soldiers and money at Cuba for decades, leading to a constant back and forth until one side got exhausted. The US becoming involved destroyed that prospect and made any continuation of the war in hopes of turning the tide turn into dust. So, would Cuba have won without the US? Maybe? But it would've been a much, much, much longer road.
Not surprised. Parents of my GF are from Cuba, they did study local university (we were one of few "friedly regimes" as part of Warsaw Pact and Eastern Block). After our revolution they were given choice - either you go back to "socialist heaven" or stay in our new democratic republic. They decided to stay, same like 99% of foreign students from there.
That statement by Thatcher was one of the stupidest ever made. In order for a money economy to work money must circulate. Its why central banks must keep adding currency with loans to try and prevent a crisis overproduction from getting out of control.
@@kimobrien. which is exactly what commie economies are forced to do. They inject (faker) money constantly in their economies exactly because it can't circulate normally. I'm not sure how you literally arguing for it makes it stupid, but to each their own.
@@kaminsod4077 One thing you won't see in Cuba is advertisements for "snake oil" like you do in the capitalist west. Big Pharma has pill for everything just go rush to the doctor with cash in your hand.
Thank you for bringing what is going on in my home country to light. Great video like always but i know from family members that are still in Cuba that power outages are still common but they just last about 1 or 2 hours less than "normal".
Shit, good job man. Now france might know. They'll be in cuba by 2025. Annexing atleast a large city, couple 1000 women, and something weird. Like a horse statue, a bridge, or a church...they always take something weird.
Friends of mine just went there on vacation, one of the things they noticed was that they couldnt get pork or beef, just fish and poultry (?!? Chicken). It was on thr menue but always "out".
@@Honkious5824that is not an excuse here, Cuba has had plenty of time to try and develop a domestic agriculture sector but has failed to do so, and they have plenty of countries they could trade with other than the US.
@@Honkious5824 there's a bigger embargo on Iran and you can watch videos on youtube of people food touring the country lol. They're also socialistic but not so bad as cuba.
@@Honkious5824 that really is a stupid argument if we would talk about some Super advanced technology OK but chickens ............... they where literally tamed by cave man
@@ItsMeChillTyme Sanctioned, embargoed and oppressed by the biggest capitalist imperium in the history of men for decades. 'Huh, must be socialismus, look at what thos evil commies did'
Do you mean the US embargo doesn't make things harder for them? Because as far as I can see, both are at fault here, the only thing up for discussion is the extent of responsibility for each side.
Whhhhaaaa if you nationalize all the assets of foreign business they dont heavily lobby for investing those assets again? Who woulda thunk it that business consider their bottom line.
So it's America's fault the country that banned commerce and nationalized all production/distribution of resources doesn't feed their people? Starvation tends to be a hall mark of communism and if the argument is that communism needs capitalism to survive than you're not making a good case for communism. Also notice I said the problem was distribution and it wasn't just because those at the top are being well taken care. The Island of Cuba produces way more calories than it needs but bans consumption of certain food items because they are strictly to be traded internationally or consumed by tourist. Failure to oblige will land you jail.
Who would have thought large government subsidized programs would be unsustainable in the long term but too politically vital to abandon would inevitably cause a crisis
I was there in 2018 for a day as Havana was a port of call for the cruise i was on. They had chinese made city buses driving around. "muh US embargo" isn't going to 100% cut it because clearly you're getting stuff from elsewhere just completely bungling it.
Yeah, there's an entire bloc of countries who make most of their money trading with folks we won't. Leftists always want to blame the US because it's easier than admitting central planning always leads to this.
"muh US embargo" is stupid because its not even true. A big chunk of Cuba's GDP is from what the Cuban-American community sends to their families in Cuba. The government takes a chunk out of it (because of course it does) but the biggest reason the Communist regime hasn't collapsed after violence, is the food, clothes, medicine, and even consumer goods my community sends to their family in Cuba.
"Ma US Embargo" is a necessary false trope because communism is a proven failure. The Left wants to keep promoting communism and we all know how the left takes criticism. Other common BS lines include: You don't even know what communism is. That wasn't real communism. It works in the NFL. And the stupidest one of all... It works on paper.
More importantly, the embargo isn't what made it illegal for Cuban citizens to freely fish and grow their own food. The country 1000% has the ability to sustain itself, but the people up top don't want that. It's easier to seem big when you force everyone around you to stay small...
As a Cuban I thank you for covering this protests and the reasons why they're happening, things back home are desperate now and most of us who have managed to leave don't know what will happen in the near future, my only wish is that my country manages to achieve freedom soon and I know quite a few of us would go back if we had a chance win in a fight against the dictators.
@@randallanthony1794 First if by here you mean the US I'm not in the US so cool it down on the xenophobia, Second I'm not there because I didn't want to spend the rest of my life suffering in a system that doesn't allow me to express myself freely and oppresses it's population and third, it's funny how you "America First" types forget the fact that half if not most of the people that work in your industries and allow you to live your comfortable lives are immigrants not to mention that your ancestors are European so you descend from immigrants. Must be nice picking fights on the internet where you won't have any consequences
"cuba wasn't even really socialist, bro. it was 'state-run capitalism'!" It makes me so mad that Leftists will never ever admit their errors and flaws.
To be fair, the US won't trade with them, and there really isn't any good reason for the embargo anymore (if there ever was), as the cold war is over. They cite the human rights situation, which, of course, in no small part exists precisely because of the government's desire to remain in power despite the economic hardship. Indeed, the reason Castro's revolution succeeded was the (entirely legitimate) discontent with the US-backed Batista regime, which was extremely corrupt and brutal. Is a command-style socialist economy workable? (Forget about "communism", that is so detached from reality that it hasn't ever existed, and when it's tried its been an absolute disaster) No, not really. And so one has to wonder why the US government continues this policy ...
And please don't tell me that it's because of their human rights record or lack of democratic representation. The US government is happy to overthrow or subvert democratically elected governments when it suits US business interests, as well as to arm and prop up authoritarian governments--look to the middle east. It's not exactly a mystery.
@@bsadewitz You: They only offered to become a base for nukes, for the US's greatest enemy to use to threaten them, and the same regime is still in power, why does the US still maintain an embargo? Is that a serious question?
im shocked this didnt happen sooner. Country has been on a pretty steady downward spiral for decades but at least they were able to hold together with 2 revolutionary war officers in charge of the country, the Castro brothers, and both their popularity and experience helped hold the country together.
@@andrewhopkins886 really similar. Not only is a former guerrilla leader the kind of hard handed badass that will crush all opposition but they're all also communist dictators so for them any internal opposition is the same as a foreign invader, so they'll go ahead and crush that protest. Since they're all also at least war heros to their own people that also means most people are at least hesitant to even protest or complain to begin with since it's like bad mouthing a navy SEAL or medal of honor recipient, it's something you only do in the most extreme of situations. Also helps that both Castro and Tito were used to assassination attempts every other day from their political domestic enemies, their foreign enemies, their own party, and even sometimes their own allies so that kind of paranoia makes it really hard to mount any opposition since they're proactive to any potential threat. There really is a surprising amount of overlap considering their wildly different lives and wildly different countries.
They wouldn't need aide if the US didn't go out of their way to try and starve them to death. The Cuban embargo is an act of genocide, 189 of 191 UN member states already recognise this, yet the US continues to use it's veto power to keep it going.
@@Honkious5824it's embargo by USA wtf other countries going to do ? 189 or 18000 doesn't mean shit . Also why does a self proclaimed SoC state need a capitalist hellhole help in anyway? . Also cuba do trade with almost every nation they literally have Chinese buses running. I also wish USA lift embargo so commie can stop hiding behind this last Cope .
It's not exclusively a Commie thing. The US during the Cold War propped up its own crop of crazy dictatorships with economic aid such as South Vietnam, ROC-In-Taiwan, South Korea, Somoza-era Nicaragua, Panama, Haiti, etc...
@@theotherohlourdespadua1131 Yes but we can all agree these were american project to stop the spread of communism that resulted in maybe even worse outcome. With cuba you got people claiming its all americas fault
As a Cuban I have to say that this video is the most accurate I have seen on a channel that is not Spanish-speaking. I perceive that this channel is elite, I subscribed. Still, I think that kidnappers of an entire country are spoken of very benevolently. In addition, imprisoning Alejandro Gil is only a matter of diverting attention by blaming one person. It's happened before. See Ochoa Case ☠️
@_blank-_ hey piece of advice from the not collapsing world. When you take all the assets from businesses and nationalize them. Those business don't like investing in that same government. Now if you live on an island, definitely don't do it to the largest economy in the world that's right next door.
People who say the embargo did this have a very American centric view. Did the embargo hurt? Sure. Was it the main reason? No. Countries do trade with Cuba that trade with the US, companies are not allowed to dual trade. Lots of food grows on that island and they have friends like, Russia and China, who provide many things for them, including food. This is just bad management.
@@revlarmilion9574 What are you talking about? More than 4 countries trade with Cuba. They just do not have a lot of economic out put so there is not alot of incentive to trade with them.
If the Cuban government needs an infusion of cash, the easiest way would be to accept the 'rent' that the US has earmarked for the use of Guantanamo Bay for the last 70 years or so.
Cuba has 500 000 million frozen funds that will go to Cuba again when free democratic elections happen it was money taken away the moment the embargo was put
@@randallanthony1794 Oh, I get it. Cuba's government is massively incompetent and corrupt, and was propped up by the Soviet Union because they produced nearly NOTHING that anyone actually wanted at the price point that they could produce it.
A infusion of cash will come when that regime falls there are Frozen funds in the americans bank and Cubans in Miami will bring a lot of money to Cuba.
When he mentioned the Cuban protestors chanting 'freedom' anyone else picture the assassination scene from the beginning of Scarface? 'Libertad, Libertad, Libertad...'
I found you through your history fun fact shorts (like most probably) and I'm positively surprised that you not only do history stuff, but also do deep dives into current political problems. Thank you for not shying away from clear criticism of what's happening right now ❤
Man love you for this documentery thank you In the mane of all cubanas thank you for telling the truth about our country cuba which is the north corea of the Caribbean island.
People saying this is entirely due to the US sanctions are just as stupid as the people saying the sanctions have no role in it at all. The sanctions are relatively weak, and they have exceptions for food and medicine. they aren't helping but no cubans are starving or dying solely from the sanctions. Cuba has a fair share of problems that have nothing to do with the USA, such as their complete and absolute failure to utilize their farmland, but it seems communists still need to learn that pointing guns at all of your experienced farmers is stupid, cuba learned it the hard way but they are far from the only one, this glorious club also includes the soviet union, china, zimbabwe and even nazi germany. if anything you would think communists wouldn't want to replicate what the nazis did but I guess they make one of their many exceptions for agricultural workers.
The malignancy of dictatorships makes me legitimately angry. The Communist regime alone is responsible for the country's suffering, and the country will never get better until the regime is gone.
@@kimobrien. That's nothing compared to the wholesale decimation of local industry by the Cuban government that rendered Cuba unable to feed itself having to rely on foreign aid during that same time.
@@shauncameron8390 The US began a sixty year blockade of the island in 1961. The population also increased by millions. And since the end of the Soviet Union which traded on favorable terms outside of the world market the US has tightened the blockade. End the blockade and we will see how the Cuban people do in the world. US foreign aid is only meant to enrich its own companies you can see how well capitalism does in Puerto Rico a US colonial possession which has all "the advantages" of American capitalism. Trouble keeping the lights on continual protests by its people against its status as a colony and a population that keeps moving to the mainland such that 1/4 of all living people born in Puerto Rico live in the US. While the US population that identifies as Puerto Rican is twice as large as the population on the island. The US born population as a whole is not reproducing itself. Without immigration most of the advanced capitalist world from German to Japan has or would have a declining population.
@@kimobrien. So communism failed in Cuba because the free world wouldn't trade with them? I didn't know communism only worked if it was allowed to participate in free markets with free nations? Tell me, in what chapter of Das Kapital is that discussed? I hope you are either under the age of 25 or over the age of 65. You are supporting and ideology that has a track record of literally 0, despite being tried in countless nations. Honestly, Cuba is one of the MOST functional examples of communism. At least they largely avoided the mass killings of the Soviet 5 year plan (among others) or the Great Leap Forward. I know its fun to hate the rich, but maybe do some self reflection, and try to finding meaning in life beyond petty resentment and political idolatry.
Cuba is a tourist hotspot for Canadians; they love it down there! Castro got a lot of mileage out of the US embargo. The one person who didn’t want the embargo to end was Castro.
Slightly unrelated: Idk why but i think it to be a weird sort of poeticism since Greenland was the first american colony and is currently the last "large" landmass in either of the Americas to gain independence or even swap nations
We should either ease up on the embargo, or going so hard that the government collapses... giving us a reason to end the embargo. Either build goodwill and hope for reforms, or regime change them and hope that the damage can be minimized and a democracy could be born. No option is a guarantee, but either could lead to better US-Cuba relations and a potential benefit for the Cuban people.
Only a few commie apologists blaming the US embargo as if cuba hasn’t been going down the slope these past decades. If Vietnam, China, and Russia started using capitalism then it might be for a damn good reason.
My wifes family is from cuba in the city of sagua la grande . They are suffering from lack of medicine and food and have had to eat house cats to survive. You would think being its an island nation they could go fishing ? Nope its illegal. For years family here in the US have sent US dollars and packages but now the Cuban Government has nade that extremely difficult. My wife's aunt was very sick and was brought to a Hospital where she died of starvation because the hospital had no food. The US Government is willing to send aid but Cuba will not accept it so the suffering will continue
Two main things have kept Cuba afloat: 1) emigration of Cubans to the United States which reduced political opposition 2) remittances from Cubans in the United States back to Cuba..
It feels like almost every country is facing some sort of existential crisis. Is there a common thread between them that is causing this, or is did it just somehow all happen at the same time? Covid maybe?
I think it's the logistical hole created by COVID and climate change finally ramping up the results of global crop failures and one of the worlds biggest grain providers being embroiled in a war with Russia. Stakuyi would be able to confirm or deny my theory though
Called everyone had enough of not being able to afford to live while a tiny percent of the population live it up. Thats all it is man people can't afford to live and governments wont do the right by the population and put rich and corporate interest first before the majority. Same thing in cuba there all struggling but the people at the top arent. What you are seeing overall is the end game of policy of the last 45 years from people like thatcher an reagan
@@pieceofschmidtgamerI mean even vietnam, russia, and china started using their own version of free market capitalism. Its like it’s been proven to work or something😂
Cuba has a central government, scocial classes, and a standardized currency. It is therefore not communist. You clearly have no idea what communism actually is. Please go read Marx's stuff. There has never been a communist state, because there CANT be a communist state. Any state that claims to be communist is, in fact, fascist.
@@MeepChangeling That's right, there never has been a real communism, and there never will be. We had a century and dozens of countries trying, get a clue already.
Apparently Cuban banks have been completely emptied, which is what led me to look for videos as to what is going on there like this one. Thank you for the information!
@@thefakeguitarplayer4124 the funniest one was the guy complaining about people dunking on communism saying we didn’t watch the 40 minute video. Like Dude stayuki literally blames management at the end.
@@thefakeguitarplayer4124 Because that's the truth. Alas, the propaganda that you've internalized from channels like this contradicts with reality. Funny thing, only recently have Americans been regurgitating this line that Cuba's failure is their "own fault". The majority of Americans agreed that the sanctions had a huge effect on them. The split was whether or not we should continue the sanctions. One side wanted to continue them to collapse the Cuban government. The other side (a minority) wants to stop to prevent a humanitarian crisis. This was the EXPLICIT policy position of both parties. Though the Democrats framed it as "punishing human rights abuses", and the Republicans framed it as "destroying the communist regime". Only now is there this steady stream of copium about how the United States didn't do nothing wrong.
Glad to see this being discussed in American social media. Cuba has been recently suffering since right before the COVID lockdowns when they were just starting to deal with a new fuel crisis; which in a country where a bicycle is a luxury, nearly all public transport used to go their jobs was delayed causing further economic impact... Then COVID hit. There has been a mass exodus over the past two years of young men. My cousin came here from Lajas about ten years ago, and he says there are almost no more young men that he grew up with living there; they all went to South or Central America countries to travel up to the United States. Edit: just saw that you covered this in your video
@@YingeleReally ? It was the US one of the biggest importes of food to Cuba last year , more than $100 million in chicken meat alone. How do you explain that ?
@@alfredosenalle9284 Wait but wasn't that part of the UN help operation? Anyway the embargo allows for food and medical items to be traded, but you can't build an economy of of that. Not without lots of backing.
@@Yingele Spain has invented in Cuba hundreds of millions of dollars , especially building Hotels that benefit the Cuban dictatorship. Other countries have done so too.
@@alfredosenalle9284 First off could you show me a source for your claims please? Second off that wouldn't be trade, but an investment, the same stuff they do in Africa to keep them poor. Debt trapping them. They aren't doing like a marshall plan or a belt and road initiative. Actual trade is prohibeted.
If you think Cuba is “collapsing” just because of protests, then you really don’t know the Cuban people. Nothing is going to change, those protests will end and everything will as miserable as it’s always been.
If you watch to then end you will see the final thoughts echo that this not likely to immediately happen. But we are seeing the worst changes in decades and it follows an often seen path that has been repeated time and time again
Russia has to keep all their oil for themselves because Ukraine is targeting their refineries, so expect bad times for Cuba, if Russian oil is the only thing keeping them afloat that is.
#FREECUBA I live in South Florida, and the Cuban asylum seekers are some of the best humans I know. They deserve to be free. Their families are slaves. They get starved by the state. I hope they can become free. VIVA 🇨🇺 LA 🇨🇺 CUBA
Or you know... The US could stop commiting genocide in Cuba. (Severe economic sanctions deliberatly made to starve the population of another nation is considered as genocide by the UN aka. the official thing) It has been taken to international court but becouse its against the US you cant do anything. Saying Cuba should just become another Haiti style colony for western exploitation doesnt sound to well though, does it?
America should have ended the embargo after the Soviet empire collapsed. The regime would have ran out of excuses for their own shitty decisions long ago.
I don't know if there's an answer to this but I'm curious to how much percentage of a population needs to leave a country for it no longer to be stable?
I've always used a similar phrase as the Fat Electrician: "if you can claim 'that's not real communism' then I can claim 'that's no real capitalism' then"
Several years ago I worked with a Cuban woman. She told me that one of the essential things guaranteed by the government was cigars. Her uncle had several kids, but he didn't smoke, so he traded his cigars for milk. He was arrested for black market trading and spent two years in prison.
That’s sucks
Strangely, that reminds me of how Soviet pilots and maintenance crews would just take coolants from their aircrafts for cars and tablewares.
Hurray leftism 🎉
@@C21H30O2 Don't conflate a failing state which tried switching systems too fast and while not fully prepared with an entire side of the political spectrum, that's foolish behaviour.
That’s normal practice in post Sowiet world, in my country we even have a word for it „załatwić” witch in translateion would be something like „done/ get done/ get it”.
What it actually means is to get somethin done ore get an item in not quite „cryminal” way but you couldn’t do in normal/ official way😅.
For exsample:
You have moved into new apartament, now you have no furniture so you call your uncle that works in sawmill or building materials factory or furniture factory so he can „get” you materials or furniture made, then you go to your friend farmer who has a car (coz if not in party or work with it you probably don’t have one) with a bottle of vodka to and ask him to go pick it up for you in dome free time for something ( probably a favour or vodka/ cigaretes) and he’d say „załatwione”
My dad was stationed at Gitmo during the Cuban Missile crises. He was a squad leader for base defense. One day he was running a practice drill with a few companies when he led his squad down into a ditch just off the side from a road, along some sort of retainer wall holding the road up and down into a wooded thicket. He and his men were attempting to figure out where they were supposed to actually be at while a company of marines headed by a lieutenant were running along the road. This lieutenant spotted a bunch of sailors down in this muddy little wooded area and called his company to a halt before approaching the side of the road. As my dad said, the lieutenant yelled "Hey sailors!" My dad, who was reading a map with one of his men looked up and yelled back, "Yes sir?" The lieutenant replied, "You're in the mine field!" Aghast, my dad and his men all looked around them, and sure enough there was a bunch of freshly dug pits with active anti-personnel mines littering the place that hadn't been appropriately marked. So he told his men to very carefully retrace their steps back up onto the road. He told me a few of them needed new pants. 😂
At least he didn't accidentally invade Cuba....
@@garyfoss4394 the Cubans exile invaded US just give them some help that is all
My wife is from El Salvador and she was studying to be a doctor, they had a program down there to where they can go to Cuba and get their doctor's degree for "free", but they had to live there for many years after in order to "pay back" the state, her friend took the program and told her it was horrible if you didn't get certain grades or complete certain tasks you were denied food as a punishment, it was so bad that it made El Salvador look rich compared to Cuba and this was back in the late 90s.
So it wasn't free at all. Biggest scam since the missile crisis
Actually, providing free medical school in exchange for working in rural areas for 5 years as a doctor is not a bad idea. It gives rural areas access to medical care and gives students without funds opportunity to study medicine. The US used to have a GI bill that provided similar opportunities to people in military service.
@@jpny4750 that's not a bad deal, the Cuban one you were basically a slave to the government, her friend was lucky enough to be able to go back to El Salvador some get stuck there longer or worse
@@devo1977s
How is it slavery?
Thats nonsense. After graduation you are not supposed to work in a rural area in Cuba, but in your country of origin. And once you are in your home country, the cuban government can't force you to do anything, including paying for your education or working in a designated area. Loss of homologation for your title can only happen if your local authorities enforce the agreement (thats even assuming they have one)
I seem to recall Peter Zeihan stating that the last thing a government does before it dies is restrict the supply of food. Obviously it isn't framing it that way, but the Cuban government stating that it has the ability to "guarantee the supply of" food until June does sound a lot like the same thing, especially when it has the distribution system locked down.
To me it sounds like they are struggling with importing food due to the economic factors. So they likely mean that " we have bought food in advance so until June we can be sure that food is coming in on time, after that it will get tricky and sporadic."
@@lordInquisitor Probably right on the money. I suspect this would be an excellent time for an adroid US diplomat to negotiate an end to to the Cuban Embargo in return for opening up Cuba to the Western World.
"It's okay, everyone. We will give you enough rice until June." Sounds like something someone in power would have said in China under Mao...
@@Cec9e13 Na Mao wouldn't even admit that there is a food issue even when thousands already died to starvation. He was a real heartless bastard.
north korea had a famine in the 90's and the government still exists
As a Cuban myself, this was always going to happen, I’m just more surprised it didn’t happen much earlier. Patria y vida.
As a cuban do you think the US embargo is also atleast partly responsible for Cuba's problems?
@tauceti8060 coming from an American I will say yes more specifically on the oil side. Most oil plant tech is owned by US conglomerates.
@@tauceti8060 the embargo excuse is a copout, many other nations (Canada, Mexico, Europe, China and Russia most notably) have all had trade relations with Cuba. But Castro's Cuba was notorious about not paying it's bills for the goods they received, so countries limited how much business they'd risk doing with Cuba.
@@tauceti8060I do think it is partly responsible but I think the Covid 19 global lockdowns were the main cause of the current situation with the Embargo being the cherry on top of the collapsing economy.
Cuba Libre!
Excellent video. I'm Cuban Canadian since 1988. All you have covered is nothing but the cruel truth.
PATRIA Y VIDA.
FREEDOM FOR MORE THAN 1200 POLITICAL PRISONER, INCLUDING CHILDREN.
Thanks again💖❤️💕
Amigo mio, parece que usted, o no ha investigado a fondo la situación, ha sido víctima de mentiras difundidas por manipuladores, o incluso puede ser uno de esos mismos individuos mencionados anteriormente, "financiados" por los "halcones" cubano-americanos del Partido Republicano con intereses creados con la mafia de Miami.
Es impactante ver como EL AGRESOR logra convencer a los AGREDIDOS e incautos desinformados, de que ellos y su gobierno son los responsables de TODOS sus males y vicisitudes.
Permítanme ahora exponerles la situación, que existe en Cuba, con respecto a la violación masiva, de sus derechos humanos, impuesta por los Estados Unidos.
Mi nombre es Álvaro, soy un viejo cubano de 88 años.
Antes que nada quiero aclarar que NO estoy involucrado con ninguna organización, ya sea política o de otro tipo. Desapruebo firmemente de las personas que difunden desinformación a cuenta de recibir “subsidios” y se aprovechan de aquellos que por ser ingenuos o por falta de conocimientos. Espero que esto aclare cualquier posible malentendido.
Hace años, al enterarme de todas las dificultades que padecía mi querido terruño y su GENTE, me he concentrado en buscar la manera de ayudar a calmar dicho sufrimiento. He investigado, física y electrónicamente, toda la información que he podido encontrar sobre la situación en Cuba.
Ahora permítanme darles mi humilde opinión sobre lo que he podido comprobar buscando en fuentes fiables y comprobables.
Durante la administración de Obama, hubieron conversaciones y acuerdos entre dicho gobierno y el Cubano, apoyados por la Iglesia Católica Cubana, el Papa Francisco y algunos progresistas Cubano-Americanos.
Dicho acuerdo ya estaban en marcha durante la visita de Obama a Cuba. Apostaba por el controlado CAMBIO HACIA LA APERTURA del país, permitiendo que los trabajadores autónomos, “cuentapropistas”, pudieran desarrollarse y comerciar libremente, y al impulso y desarrollo de las importantes industrias del turismo y del ya sofisticado sector farmacéutico y biotecnológico. No hay que olvidar que se permitía también hacer compras en Los Estados Unidos, a la apertura de su turismo y a la libre transferencias de remesas. Fue más extenso pero lo anterior era la base del mimo.
Con la implementación de este acuerdo se evitó la conocida injerencia que suele imponer el todopoderoso vecino del norte a nuestra querida "América" - entiéndase por "América" ambos continentes y el Caribe - y no como Estados Unidos.
Además, se impidieron tácticas INTERVENCIONISTAS de los "halcones" del Partido REPUBLICANO, como el Senador Rubio, otros políticos cubano-americanos, el Senador Menéndez del Partido Demócrata y los descendientes de ex-terratenientes y “batistianos", atrincherados en Miami, ansioso por obtener los votos críticos de los delegados de las primarias de Florida para el Partido REPUBLICANO.
RECORDEMOS TODOS LOS BENEFICIOS QUE OBTUVIERON LAS FAMILIAS CUBANAS DURANTE EL PERÍODO PRESIDENCIAL DE OBAMA.
Soy consciente de que muchos culpan al gobierno cubano de TODOS los problemas del país. Aunque en parte es cierto, olvidan algo crucial (Cita, Wikipedia). Aunque las medidas estadounidenses contra Cuba no equivalen a un bloqueo en un sentido técnico o formal, su efecto acumulativo es imponer un "dominio estrangulado" económico sobre la isla, que no sólo impide las relaciones comerciales de los Estados Unidos sino que también bloquea efectivamente el comercio con otros estados, sus ciudadanos y empresas, y también prohíbe a las filiales extranjeras de empresas estadounidenses comerciar con Cuba; además, las empresas con sede en Estados Unidos y las empresas que hacen negocios con Estados Unidos, que comercian en Cuba, lo hacen a riesgo de sanciones estadounidenses. (Fin de la cita.)
Si bien el pretexto para las acciones de Estados Unidos contra Cuba ha cambiado a lo largo de seis décadas, los objetivos NO.
EL OBJETIVO quedó claro en un memorando nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/27400-document-1-state-department-memorandum-decline-and-fall-castro-secret-april-6-1960 de abril de 1960 escrito por Lester D. Mallory, subsecretario de Estado estadounidense, quien recomendó medidas “para debilitar la vida económica de Cuba. . . CAUSAN HAMBRE, DESESPERACIÓN Y DERROCAMIENTO DEL GOBIERNO”. Lo que Lester D. Mallory concibió fue un genocidio planificado, una horrenda violación de los derechos humanos, y al derecho a la salud. Además, conociendo que Cuba apenas posee recursos naturales, sabían que esto agravaría el daño al país.
El embargo ha ido mucho más allá y ha provocado una fuga de cerebros, donde muchos de los mejores y más brillantes profesionales abandonan el país, exacerbando la ya precaria situación médica, educativa e industrial del país.
Esta presentación arroja luz sobre el principal responsable de las dificultades que enfrentan los cubanos y hay varios factores que han contribuido a esta lamentable situación:
A. La razón principal es el CRUEL embargo que se le impone primordialmente a las FAMILIAS cubanas hace más de 60 años, exacerbado en su intensificación por parte del (%?#) Trump.
B. La pandemia ha agravado aún más la situación al reducir en un 95%, aproximadamente, la principal fuente de divisas del país…el turismo.
C. Las sanciones económicas impuestas por los Estados Unidos a Venezuela han provocado una disminución devastadora en las importaciones de petróleo, estando Cuba prevista como el segundo receptor de dichas sanciones.
D. No se pueden ignorar las errores y malas decisiones cometidas por el gobierno cubano.
A continuación puede ver dos fehacientes EVIDENCIAS y VIDEOS concernientes al embargo.
1- Verá al ex analista senior de la CIA Fulton Armstrong admitiendo en (Deutsche Welle*) la influencia de Estados Unidos en las protestas actuales.
EE. UU. invierte millones "para derrumbar al régimen cubano" ruclips.net/video/Q5CYJ2YpOto/видео.html
Fulton Armstrong reconoce que "el factor que más impacta" la crisis cubana "es el EMBARGO norteamericano".- (La entrevista fue realizada en castellano)
(*Deutsche Welle) es una emisora pública internacional alemana de propiedad estatal financiada por el presupuesto fiscal federal alemán.
2- El embargo estadounidense después de sesenta años” ruclips.net/video/me_SwEBuv_A/видео.html
(Lo siento, la entrevista fue realizada en inglés)
Sólo cito un resumen del prólogo de Gail Reed, editora ejecutiva de Medicc Review:
“Lo que estamos viendo en el caso de Cuba es una violación masiva de los derechos humanos, el derecho a la vida y el derecho a la salud de 11 millones de personas. Encontremos manera de hacer que más personas e influyentes en los Estados Unidos les importe levantar éste embargo y quitarle la bota del cuello al pueblo cubano.”
Espero que ahora le resulte más fácil hacer sus propias conclusiones sobre el motivo principal de la catástrofe cubana.
Cuba has the same weather as Dominican Republic... While Dominican Republic produces 80% of it's s food! Locally Cuba or Cuban authorities have not figured out how to do that in 63 years!
Farmers in Cuba are basically slaves, they invest out of pocket and work the land just for the government to come over and pay whatever amount they see fit and if you refuse they simply take everything and throw you in jail! So who's going to work in those conditions? Is not a "US embargo" or "Blockade" is the internal government itself who keeps Cuba a failed economy.
People really seem to fail at the “you can’t just steal farmers food” problem. The Soviets did it. The nazis did it. The Chinese did it. All had pretty bad famines. We’ve seen Venezuela try to do it, but at least they didn’t stop trading with the world, so while the impact has been bad, it has overall not been as bad as the previously mentioned
The Dominican Republic uses literal slavery, so I wouldn't hold them up on a pedestal like that. They also absolutely do import food, much like Cuba needs to.
@@wta1518 Slaves? Are you out of your mind? 🤣 I'm guessing you're referring to cheaper labor from immigrants? Well that's false most of the plantations are run by locals and even if they used the cheaper manpower isn't that what all super powers do? Are we playing the victims again? Are we ignoring that Latinos do work the country in the USA and Canada while the locals don't? Either way no body is being forced or doing it or free!
Plus how do you call what Cuba is doing? Working for no pay and sometimes working at a loss.
Cuba's farmers can sell their surplus, tho
@@wta1518no shit, they said they produce 80 percent, not 100
Thanks!
Bread and circuses is what keeps people sated even in awful situations. Without those people start getting mad and fear gives way to hate very quickly.
Cuba used to have tons of farms that were taken when the government went commie but so far much of the land has been left underdeveloped or not used at all.
I've heard a phrase that "people are only a few missed meals away from going crazy".
Seems to be true
Yes, but those farms weren't for the people, they were sugar cane plantations owned by corporations for export to the US. As horrible as they are, Cuba's current conditions are an improvement over the American occupation and Batista's subsequent puppet government that came before. A fact the US is trying to mask with crippling sanctions.
@@TheSkyGuy77 I thought it was they are three meals away from a revolution.
The selling of labor in that Venezuela deal is actually much like serfdom too btw. Not trying to be a "gotcha" but it is just interesting
They do that to Brazil too, exporting doctors that need to send back 75% of their earnings. Leftist governments will always end up exploiting their people when there is no more money to steal.
Communism or more specifically socialism has a lot more in common with old feudal states than I think anyone would be willing to admit. The major differences come from it not being a hereditary nobility, but there is definitely a form of nobility there.
@@CaspertheSarcasticGhost I really question if Marx was just a reactionary just mad at (what is seen as) progress
Also, it wasn't just to Venezuela, I know people that went on this missions (as they called them) to countries in Africa and other countries in Latin America. In Brazil they were poorly received by the local doctors.
So what they would do is charge the countries X amount for the labour of the specialist (it wasn't just doctors) and then turn around and pay the specialist in Cuban currency, at like a 10th of what they were charging for this services
It is... but do you know WHY they are forced to do so? A part of the US embargo involves the automatic seizing of all Cuban transactions in US dollars by any bank. And oil producing countries are forced to sell oil in US dollars or see themselves under err... the immediate effect of managed democracy.
So it 100% makes sense for Cuba to trade their workforce for oil in Venezuela, and for the Venezuelan government to accept Cuba's help to remain in power by either providing medical (and social) services to the population for almost nothing and keep them happy(ish) and intelligence, training and others to keep them in power.
They are not even ideologically aligned, Chávez and Maduro went the god fearing, miracle making populist little tyrant route that is anathema to the Cuban own brand of socialism.
No not the country with the worlds largest classic car collection
It's funny because people buy cars as an investment that would be considered not road worthy but any civilized country and a 10 year old corolla goes for like 70k USD
Last I heard (1980s), Cuba was the primo source for parts for old cars, because they still made new, factory-specification or improved, stuff for cars from the 1950s and even 1960s. Got a Desoto? They had the parts. The hard part was having to route payment and shipment through former French colonies, repackaging as made there.
I'm surprised Jay Leno hasn't defected there yet.
Watching this video is surreal considering that my father was a Cuban balsero in 1994. Thanks for covering this!
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I heard a lot about the crisis cause one of my teachers was a cuban immigrant that escaped in one of those rafts
She came to argentina, aa she had been rejected assylum in chile
She was a really nice woman, she lost her mother during the crossing, as a sudden storm hit the raft they were on
And of course to this day she is a avid extremly vocal anti comunist/socialist
She’s a brave and wise woman.
@BioHunter1990 she was extremely sweet and a teacher and worked as a therapeutic companion for the special education children, even helping them find jobs once they graduated high school
Tho because she left Cuba illegal, she can not come back, leaving a lot of her family behind
I had a Spanish teacher in high school and he came to the US during I want to say the 80s and talked about how bad it was then.
This video does a pretty good job of summarizing Cuban History but there are some dangerous inaccuracies in its retelling
1. The United States did not turn the tide of the Cuban War for Independence, there is a reason why the War ended just a few months after their intervention, more than half of the country was already in rebel hands by 1898 and Spain had almost lost complete political power over the island. The wrongful idea that the USA had a large role in the success of a war that was already half won was the precise reason why they were able to exclude Cubans who had sacrificed the most from the peace talks with Spain.
2. From the creation of the republic in 1902 up to the Castro Regime, only two dictators ruled, Machado (1925 -1933) and Batista (1952-1958), the rest were democratically elected heads of state, albeit corrupt most of the time. Nevertheless, to think of the Republic of Cuba as a series of dictators takes away from the period when it was most prosperous and free and its successes like the 1940 Constitution.
But they did have a very important paper in the war. In the same vein as the USA wouldn't have won its war against the british without Spain And France being at war with England, without the USA steam rolling the Spanish forces, the Cubans would have had a much more difficult time to take the island back once it was reinforced.
Now, mind you, I say this as a Spanish, not an American. Wich is why the Maine "incident" happened. That allowed the USA to declare war agaisnt a very weakened Spain.
Im not an expert on the Cuban war for independence, however, as I understand it, the US played the same role in Cuban independence as France did in American independence. That is, primarily, making sure that independence movement had the opportunity to win. Spain could continue to throw soldiers and money at Cuba for decades, leading to a constant back and forth until one side got exhausted. The US becoming involved destroyed that prospect and made any continuation of the war in hopes of turning the tide turn into dust. So, would Cuba have won without the US? Maybe? But it would've been a much, much, much longer road.
How big a backlog of Countries collapsing do you have at the moment.
"Could you not have a civil war right now?... I've got five videos still to do."
Easy thing to talk about? yes. Is it exhausting trying to keep up when there are other videos planned for a while to talk about? Also yes
@@historyofeverythingpodcasthow's Yemen doing?
@@alastor8091 Don't think that answer has really changed much in a while.
@@wta1518 like everything else, I assume it got worse, but nobody is reporting on it anymore in favor of hotter news.
Thanks for talking about this. As a cuban I like to see others talking about our messy island. We need more information about cuban reality....
Not surprised. Parents of my GF are from Cuba, they did study local university (we were one of few "friedly regimes" as part of Warsaw Pact and Eastern Block). After our revolution they were given choice - either you go back to "socialist heaven" or stay in our new democratic republic. They decided to stay, same like 99% of foreign students from there.
This is the first time hearing about this. I haven't seen this on any news channels
Communism ends when other people's money end.
Cheers from Bulgaria, a former communist state.
And now you are the sewage of european union,congratulations...
That statement by Thatcher was one of the stupidest ever made. In order for a money economy to work money must circulate. Its why central banks must keep adding currency with loans to try and prevent a crisis overproduction from getting out of control.
@@kimobrien. which is exactly what commie economies are forced to do. They inject (faker) money constantly in their economies exactly because it can't circulate normally. I'm not sure how you literally arguing for it makes it stupid, but to each their own.
@@kimobrien. Imagine advertising that you fell for marxist snake oil.
@@kaminsod4077 One thing you won't see in Cuba is advertisements for "snake oil" like you do in the capitalist west. Big Pharma has pill for everything just go rush to the doctor with cash in your hand.
Thank you for bringing what is going on in my home country to light. Great video like always but i know from family members that are still in Cuba that power outages are still common but they just last about 1 or 2 hours less than "normal".
I know this is unrelated but cool PFP
@@LOWQUALTYSTUFF ty
For once it’s not France’s fault.
Waddya mean bruh?
@@raylenn4444haiti got ruined by france
Shit, good job man. Now france might know. They'll be in cuba by 2025. Annexing atleast a large city, couple 1000 women, and something weird. Like a horse statue, a bridge, or a church...they always take something weird.
It still possible to blame France. It would not be logical at all but fully possible and some will.
@@michaelpettersson4919 bruh.
Leave my people alone ramses
Friends of mine just went there on vacation, one of the things they noticed was that they couldnt get pork or beef, just fish and poultry (?!? Chicken). It was on thr menue but always "out".
Probably because the US embargo.
@@Honkious5824that is not an excuse here, Cuba has had plenty of time to try and develop a domestic agriculture sector but has failed to do so, and they have plenty of countries they could trade with other than the US.
@@Honkious5824 there's a bigger embargo on Iran and you can watch videos on youtube of people food touring the country lol. They're also socialistic but not so bad as cuba.
@@Honkious5824Average socialist cope
@@Honkious5824 that really is a stupid argument
if we would talk about some Super advanced technology OK
but chickens ............... they where literally tamed by cave man
It's not complicated; it's the governments fault. 1000%. What is complicated is how.
People say that a communist government can work yet we are seeing Cuba about to collapse
The how isn't complicated either. Same age old problems that socialism brings with it.
@@ItsMeChillTyme Sanctioned, embargoed and oppressed by the biggest capitalist imperium in the history of men for decades.
'Huh, must be socialismus, look at what thos evil commies did'
Do you mean the US embargo doesn't make things harder for them? Because as far as I can see, both are at fault here, the only thing up for discussion is the extent of responsibility for each side.
@@Imman1sah yes “us embargo” as if they wouldn’t retaliate after Cuba seized US assets and arrested US citizens wouldn’t warrant a response back
Whhhhaaaa if you nationalize all the assets of foreign business they dont heavily lobby for investing those assets again? Who woulda thunk it that business consider their bottom line.
Less to do with that and more to do with a complete embargo by the western world.
So it's America's fault the country that banned commerce and nationalized all production/distribution of resources doesn't feed their people? Starvation tends to be a hall mark of communism and if the argument is that communism needs capitalism to survive than you're not making a good case for communism. Also notice I said the problem was distribution and it wasn't just because those at the top are being well taken care. The Island of Cuba produces way more calories than it needs but bans consumption of certain food items because they are strictly to be traded internationally or consumed by tourist. Failure to oblige will land you jail.
@@fortyninehikeI don't think anyone has ever made a good case for communism outside of a book
@@bosco4533 yea imagine reading. That's for suckers, nevermind the biggest socialist superpower coming to rise and absorbing our economies
M yes instead of goverment taking our money lets make goverment and corpotations to take your money.
Who would have thought large government subsidized programs would be unsustainable in the long term but too politically vital to abandon would inevitably cause a crisis
But they are, too bad they can't get anything done because the U.S constantly starts new sanctions
I was there in 2018 for a day as Havana was a port of call for the cruise i was on. They had chinese made city buses driving around. "muh US embargo" isn't going to 100% cut it because clearly you're getting stuff from elsewhere just completely bungling it.
Yeah, there's an entire bloc of countries who make most of their money trading with folks we won't. Leftists always want to blame the US because it's easier than admitting central planning always leads to this.
"muh US embargo" is stupid because its not even true. A big chunk of Cuba's GDP is from what the Cuban-American community sends to their families in Cuba. The government takes a chunk out of it (because of course it does) but the biggest reason the Communist regime hasn't collapsed after violence, is the food, clothes, medicine, and even consumer goods my community sends to their family in Cuba.
"Ma US Embargo" is a necessary false trope because communism is a proven failure. The Left wants to keep promoting communism and we all know how the left takes criticism. Other common BS lines include:
You don't even know what communism is.
That wasn't real communism.
It works in the NFL.
And the stupidest one of all...
It works on paper.
More importantly, the embargo isn't what made it illegal for Cuban citizens to freely fish and grow their own food. The country 1000% has the ability to sustain itself, but the people up top don't want that. It's easier to seem big when you force everyone around you to stay small...
As a Cuban I thank you for covering this protests and the reasons why they're happening, things back home are desperate now and most of us who have managed to leave don't know what will happen in the near future, my only wish is that my country manages to achieve freedom soon and I know quite a few of us would go back if we had a chance win in a fight against the dictators.
If it's your country why aren't you there.why are you here? This is what wrong with america.you are either an American or you are not.
@@randallanthony1794 First if by here you mean the US I'm not in the US so cool it down on the xenophobia, Second I'm not there because I didn't want to spend the rest of my life suffering in a system that doesn't allow me to express myself freely and oppresses it's population and third, it's funny how you "America First" types forget the fact that half if not most of the people that work in your industries and allow you to live your comfortable lives are immigrants not to mention that your ancestors are European so you descend from immigrants.
Must be nice picking fights on the internet where you won't have any consequences
This just in: Cuba declared "not real communism".
"cuba wasn't even really socialist, bro. it was 'state-run capitalism'!"
It makes me so mad that Leftists will never ever admit their errors and flaws.
I think it hasn't been for a while. They never claim it as "real" except in the start before things start falling apart.
To be fair, the US won't trade with them, and there really isn't any good reason for the embargo anymore (if there ever was), as the cold war is over. They cite the human rights situation, which, of course, in no small part exists precisely because of the government's desire to remain in power despite the economic hardship. Indeed, the reason Castro's revolution succeeded was the (entirely legitimate) discontent with the US-backed Batista regime, which was extremely corrupt and brutal.
Is a command-style socialist economy workable? (Forget about "communism", that is so detached from reality that it hasn't ever existed, and when it's tried its been an absolute disaster) No, not really. And so one has to wonder why the US government continues this policy ...
And please don't tell me that it's because of their human rights record or lack of democratic representation. The US government is happy to overthrow or subvert democratically elected governments when it suits US business interests, as well as to arm and prop up authoritarian governments--look to the middle east. It's not exactly a mystery.
@@bsadewitz You: They only offered to become a base for nukes, for the US's greatest enemy to use to threaten them, and the same regime is still in power, why does the US still maintain an embargo?
Is that a serious question?
im shocked this didnt happen sooner. Country has been on a pretty steady downward spiral for decades but at least they were able to hold together with 2 revolutionary war officers in charge of the country, the Castro brothers, and both their popularity and experience helped hold the country together.
I agree the castros gravitas held it together.
I wonder why it's been on a downward spiral. Definitely can't be because of and embargo that the US refuses to lift, vetoeing motions in the UN.
I'm getting serious "Tito was the only thing holding Yugoslavia together" vibes.
@@andrewhopkins886 really similar. Not only is a former guerrilla leader the kind of hard handed badass that will crush all opposition but they're all also communist dictators so for them any internal opposition is the same as a foreign invader, so they'll go ahead and crush that protest. Since they're all also at least war heros to their own people that also means most people are at least hesitant to even protest or complain to begin with since it's like bad mouthing a navy SEAL or medal of honor recipient, it's something you only do in the most extreme of situations. Also helps that both Castro and Tito were used to assassination attempts every other day from their political domestic enemies, their foreign enemies, their own party, and even sometimes their own allies so that kind of paranoia makes it really hard to mount any opposition since they're proactive to any potential threat. There really is a surprising amount of overlap considering their wildly different lives and wildly different countries.
@@andrewhopkins886same vibes mate...
It's crazy that all communist countries have to be propped up. Once the aide ends so does their country. Who could have seen this coming!?
Also crazy how every country the US backs is currently dealing with a massive reactionary/fascist uptick at the moment.
They wouldn't need aide if the US didn't go out of their way to try and starve them to death. The Cuban embargo is an act of genocide, 189 of 191 UN member states already recognise this, yet the US continues to use it's veto power to keep it going.
@@Honkious5824it's embargo by USA wtf other countries going to do ? 189 or 18000 doesn't mean shit . Also why does a self proclaimed SoC state need a capitalist hellhole help in anyway? . Also cuba do trade with almost every nation they literally have Chinese buses running. I also wish USA lift embargo so commie can stop hiding behind this last Cope .
It's not exclusively a Commie thing. The US during the Cold War propped up its own crop of crazy dictatorships with economic aid such as South Vietnam, ROC-In-Taiwan, South Korea, Somoza-era Nicaragua, Panama, Haiti, etc...
@@theotherohlourdespadua1131 Yes but we can all agree these were american project to stop the spread of communism that resulted in maybe even worse outcome.
With cuba you got people claiming its all americas fault
As a Cuban I have to say that this video is the most accurate I have seen on a channel that is not Spanish-speaking. I perceive that this channel is elite, I subscribed. Still, I think that kidnappers of an entire country are spoken of very benevolently. In addition, imprisoning Alejandro Gil is only a matter of diverting attention by blaming one person. It's happened before. See Ochoa Case ☠️
I know so many stupid people who go to Cuba on Vacation for two weeks then tell me they want to live here for the rest of their lives CRAZY ?!
What are Cubans complaining about? The government gives them all the air that they could ever breathe.
Blackouts, food shortages, famine, economic mismanagement.
@@apatheticobserver5290I’m pretty sure he’s being sarcastic
You have to pay extra for sunlight
Americans mocking Cubans' situation when you're the biggest reason for it will never stop being ironic (and twisted).
@_blank-_ hey piece of advice from the not collapsing world. When you take all the assets from businesses and nationalize them. Those business don't like investing in that same government. Now if you live on an island, definitely don't do it to the largest economy in the world that's right next door.
This is such a great channel! The big boys can learn a lot from the History of Everything.
People who say the embargo did this have a very American centric view. Did the embargo hurt? Sure. Was it the main reason? No. Countries do trade with Cuba that trade with the US, companies are not allowed to dual trade. Lots of food grows on that island and they have friends like, Russia and China, who provide many things for them, including food. This is just bad management.
Do you think Cuba is in a good position to negotiate when only 4 countries can dare to trade with it?
@@revlarmilion9574 What are you talking about? More than 4 countries trade with Cuba. They just do not have a lot of economic out put so there is not alot of incentive to trade with them.
@@revlarmilion9574 Perhaps Cuba ought to have considered that before alienating its largest trading partners?
@@revlarmilion9574 In 2021 the United States export $323.5 million in goods to Cuba
So sanctions don't actually do anything? Mkay
I love your content. This is some of the best educational history that I have found in a long time. Thank you
If the Cuban government needs an infusion of cash, the easiest way would be to accept the 'rent' that the US has earmarked for the use of Guantanamo Bay for the last 70 years or so.
Cuba has 500 000 million frozen funds that will go to Cuba again when free democratic elections happen it was money taken away the moment the embargo was put
You don't get it do you?.
@@randallanthony1794 Oh, I get it. Cuba's government is massively incompetent and corrupt, and was propped up by the Soviet Union because they produced nearly NOTHING that anyone actually wanted at the price point that they could produce it.
A infusion of cash will come when that regime falls there are Frozen funds in the americans bank and Cubans in Miami will bring a lot of money to Cuba.
@@randallanthony1794No, you don't
Imagine being a country that close to America and being out of food.
Communism: Bringing famines near you for over 100 years (tm)
As someone else pointed out, exact same environment as the Dominican Republic, where they produce 80% of their own food.
@@captainalex157
Cuba
USSR
China
North Korea
Venezuela
Romania
Ethiopia
Zimbabwe
Cambodia
Tanzania
That probably contributes to it due to the embargo
That american sphere of influence looks pretty good about now, eh cuba?
When he mentioned the Cuban protestors chanting 'freedom' anyone else picture the assassination scene from the beginning of Scarface? 'Libertad, Libertad, Libertad...'
I found you through your history fun fact shorts (like most probably) and I'm positively surprised that you not only do history stuff, but also do deep dives into current political problems. Thank you for not shying away from clear criticism of what's happening right now ❤
Man love you for this documentery thank you In the mane of all cubanas thank you for telling the truth about our country cuba which is the north corea of the Caribbean island.
People saying this is entirely due to the US sanctions are just as stupid as the people saying the sanctions have no role in it at all. The sanctions are relatively weak, and they have exceptions for food and medicine. they aren't helping but no cubans are starving or dying solely from the sanctions. Cuba has a fair share of problems that have nothing to do with the USA, such as their complete and absolute failure to utilize their farmland, but it seems communists still need to learn that pointing guns at all of your experienced farmers is stupid, cuba learned it the hard way but they are far from the only one, this glorious club also includes the soviet union, china, zimbabwe and even nazi germany. if anything you would think communists wouldn't want to replicate what the nazis did but I guess they make one of their many exceptions for agricultural workers.
Your presentation forces my like, subscription. Good job !
Communism - Fails.
Communists - *Surprised Pikachu face*
''But that wasn't real communism''
@@RandomAussieGuy87it is
good vid. appreciate the length (and its girth)
The malignancy of dictatorships makes me legitimately angry. The Communist regime alone is responsible for the country's suffering, and the country will never get better until the regime is gone.
Your a big liar. The US has maintained a 60 year long blockade.
@@kimobrien.
That's nothing compared to the wholesale decimation of local industry by the Cuban government that rendered Cuba unable to feed itself having to rely on foreign aid during that same time.
@@shauncameron8390 The US began a sixty year blockade of the island in 1961. The population also increased by millions. And since the end of the Soviet Union which traded on favorable terms outside of the world market the US has tightened the blockade. End the blockade and we will see how the Cuban people do in the world. US foreign aid is only meant to enrich its own companies you can see how well capitalism does in Puerto Rico a US colonial possession which has all "the advantages" of American capitalism. Trouble keeping the lights on continual protests by its people against its status as a colony and a population that keeps moving to the mainland such that 1/4 of all living people born in Puerto Rico live in the US. While the US population that identifies as Puerto Rican is twice as large as the population on the island. The US born population as a whole is not reproducing itself. Without immigration most of the advanced capitalist world from German to Japan has or would have a declining population.
Blame the government and not the one sanctioning Cuba constantly because ___?...
@@kimobrien. So communism failed in Cuba because the free world wouldn't trade with them? I didn't know communism only worked if it was allowed to participate in free markets with free nations? Tell me, in what chapter of Das Kapital is that discussed? I hope you are either under the age of 25 or over the age of 65. You are supporting and ideology that has a track record of literally 0, despite being tried in countless nations. Honestly, Cuba is one of the MOST functional examples of communism. At least they largely avoided the mass killings of the Soviet 5 year plan (among others) or the Great Leap Forward. I know its fun to hate the rich, but maybe do some self reflection, and try to finding meaning in life beyond petty resentment and political idolatry.
Cuba is a tourist hotspot for Canadians; they love it down there! Castro got a lot of mileage out of the US embargo. The one person who didn’t want the embargo to end was Castro.
Slightly unrelated:
Idk why but i think it to be a weird sort of poeticism since Greenland was the first american colony and is currently the last "large" landmass in either of the Americas to gain independence or even swap nations
The F in Communism stands for food
🤣👏👏👏
Well done good Sir, Well done
The F in capitalism stands for freedom.
@@Yingeleit's very correct,and the people wanted to be free from the communist party dictatorship government..
You mean the FREE market? Capitalism is just a Marxist term for the FREE market.
But there IS no "F" in Communism!
Have to say, "Havana" is a just a beautiful name for a capital.
Santiago de la Havana..😮
@@williamshaw8106the real Spanish name given to Havana is
San Cristobal de la Habana.
Thats my next 40 mins sorted
We should either ease up on the embargo, or going so hard that the government collapses... giving us a reason to end the embargo.
Either build goodwill and hope for reforms, or regime change them and hope that the damage can be minimized and a democracy could be born.
No option is a guarantee, but either could lead to better US-Cuba relations and a potential benefit for the Cuban people.
Brother Cuba already is a democracy? What are you talking about?
Sad story l feel for the children mostly.
Great video, thanks.
Step one to fix Cuba: Get rid of communism.
Step two: Make sure that step one has been followed.
Good report. TKS from AUS.
Could pleaaaaaaase do a video on Chile? We have so much sh*t going on, it’s crazy 😳
Blame yourselves for electing commies
You elected a communist, how are things going up there?
@@GazMatic what do you mean
When I was in cuba 10 years ago, I was told that they might allow Canadians to buy land in Cuba. Who the hell would even bother?
This comment section is going to be an absolute fucking disaster
Only a few commie apologists blaming the US embargo as if cuba hasn’t been going down the slope these past decades. If Vietnam, China, and Russia started using capitalism then it might be for a damn good reason.
Indeed, I was waiting for some soy-infused college kids lecturing us how this wasn't real communism.
My wifes family is from cuba in the city of sagua la grande .
They are suffering from lack of medicine and food and have had to eat house cats to survive.
You would think being its an island nation they could go fishing ?
Nope its illegal.
For years family here in the US have sent US dollars and packages but now the Cuban Government has nade that extremely difficult.
My wife's aunt was very sick and was brought to a Hospital where she died of starvation because the hospital had no food.
The US Government is willing to send aid but Cuba will not accept it so the suffering will continue
"Sorry this was such a long video" *grabs pitch fork* "MORE LONG VIDEOS! MORE LONG VIDEOS!"
Dude! It was excellent!
I wonder if that 25,000 tons of donated wheat was stolen from Ukraine.
You're so weird bro, ukraine is not the biggest deal. More suffering exists than just that of those in Ukraine.
@@EpsilonSyndicatewhy do you feel the need to down play Russias actions?
@@EpsilonSyndicate”bad things are happening elsewhere so stop caring” is the actual weird take. Apologize to your mother for wasting her time.
Probably not, agriculture in occupied Ukraine got rather disrupted and Russia is a major producer on its own
@@sircoloniser5454 eh it got disrupted however the Russians stole massive grain stores, along with agricultural equipment.
Enjoyed your work
Communism, every damn time.
Great video.
Two main things have kept Cuba afloat:
1) emigration of Cubans to the United States which reduced political opposition
2) remittances from Cubans in the United States back to Cuba..
Great review.
It feels like almost every country is facing some sort of existential crisis. Is there a common thread between them that is causing this, or is did it just somehow all happen at the same time? Covid maybe?
I think it's the logistical hole created by COVID and climate change finally ramping up the results of global crop failures and one of the worlds biggest grain providers being embroiled in a war with Russia. Stakuyi would be able to confirm or deny my theory though
Called everyone had enough of not being able to afford to live while a tiny percent of the population live it up. Thats all it is man people can't afford to live and governments wont do the right by the population and put rich and corporate interest first before the majority. Same thing in cuba there all struggling but the people at the top arent. What you are seeing overall is the end game of policy of the last 45 years from people like thatcher an reagan
Late capitalism. Gotta milk every last cents out of us.
@@_blank-_ Name a successful communist country.
Even the Chinese are state capitalists.
In my opinion COVID didn't cause these problems, it just sped things up a lot.
Wonderful breakdown of Cuba. I'd love to hear your analysis of what's happening in Brazil.
21:00
Its sad to see that the cuban government tried really hard to not say that they need to have a "free market reform"...
This is what happens when your entire reason for existing depends on rigid ideology. Pragmatic change is hard to come by.
@@pieceofschmidtgamerI mean even vietnam, russia, and china started using their own version of free market capitalism. Its like it’s been proven to work or something😂
@@Banished-rx4ol "Their own version..."
A shittier version.
@@pieceofschmidtgamer Yes, but they still abandoned marx like yesterdays trash when it comes to economics
@@Banished-rx4ol Can't abandon what they never had.
this is my biggest source and help for my final project bro
Communism leading to starvation!?! What!?! No! That’s not true! THAT IMPOSSIBLE!
(bonus points if you get the reference)
Cuba has a central government, scocial classes, and a standardized currency. It is therefore not communist. You clearly have no idea what communism actually is. Please go read Marx's stuff. There has never been a communist state, because there CANT be a communist state. Any state that claims to be communist is, in fact, fascist.
@@MeepChangeling Oh my God, I've now found *two* "nOt rEaL sOcIaLiSm" users in this comments section.
@@MeepChangeling That's right, there never has been a real communism, and there never will be. We had a century and dozens of countries trying, get a clue already.
@@3zzzTyleReal communism or unreal , both are garbage and don't work.
@@MeepChangelingeither way, it doesn’t work.
A very good review of the state of Cuba
damn all those commies telling me cuba was fine and have the best doctors in the world.
primary school doctors
Very detailled documentary!
It's about damn time.
Very informative and well written! How about a video on the why The Dominican Republic and Haiti are not one country?
Would love to hear you cover the WW2 battles for Attu and Kiska. Have been too both, not too many know what went down on US soil.....
one heelleva excellent presentation !
What did communists use for light before candles?
Lightbulbs
Apparently Cuban banks have been completely emptied, which is what led me to look for videos as to what is going on there like this one. Thank you for the information!
The sheer amount of tankies in the comment section is absurd
That happens in every single video that talks about Cuba’s situation.
“Something something the embargo buaaaahhh”
@@thefakeguitarplayer4124 the funniest one was the guy complaining about people dunking on communism saying we didn’t watch the 40 minute video.
Like Dude stayuki literally blames management at the end.
@@thefakeguitarplayer4124
Because that's the truth. Alas, the propaganda that you've internalized from channels like this contradicts with reality.
Funny thing, only recently have Americans been regurgitating this line that Cuba's failure is their "own fault".
The majority of Americans agreed that the sanctions had a huge effect on them.
The split was whether or not we should continue the sanctions.
One side wanted to continue them to collapse the Cuban government.
The other side (a minority) wants to stop to prevent a humanitarian crisis.
This was the EXPLICIT policy position of both parties. Though the Democrats framed it as "punishing human rights abuses", and the Republicans framed it as "destroying the communist regime".
Only now is there this steady stream of copium about how the United States didn't do nothing wrong.
What are "tankies"?
ETA: Oh cool, I'd never heard that term before. What an aggravating etymology.
Glad to see this being discussed in American social media. Cuba has been recently suffering since right before the COVID lockdowns when they were just starting to deal with a new fuel crisis; which in a country where a bicycle is a luxury, nearly all public transport used to go their jobs was delayed causing further economic impact... Then COVID hit. There has been a mass exodus over the past two years of young men. My cousin came here from Lajas about ten years ago, and he says there are almost no more young men that he grew up with living there; they all went to South or Central America countries to travel up to the United States.
Edit: just saw that you covered this in your video
Any country has a right to trade with whomever they wish. Blaming the US is a cop out.
Yes except with Cuba. Then the US comes in and starts lawsuits and shit.
@@YingeleReally ? It was the US one of the biggest importes of food to Cuba last year , more than $100 million in chicken meat alone.
How do you explain that ?
@@alfredosenalle9284 Wait but wasn't that part of the UN help operation?
Anyway the embargo allows for food and medical items to be traded, but you can't build an economy of of that. Not without lots of backing.
@@Yingele Spain has invented in Cuba hundreds of millions of dollars , especially building Hotels that benefit the Cuban dictatorship. Other countries have done so too.
@@alfredosenalle9284 First off could you show me a source for your claims please? Second off that wouldn't be trade, but an investment, the same stuff they do in Africa to keep them poor. Debt trapping them. They aren't doing like a marshall plan or a belt and road initiative. Actual trade is prohibeted.
Thanks 🙏
If you think Cuba is “collapsing” just because of protests, then you really don’t know the Cuban people. Nothing is going to change, those protests will end and everything will as miserable as it’s always been.
That’s how authoritarian regimes work, until it’s not.
If you watch to then end you will see the final thoughts echo that this not likely to immediately happen. But we are seeing the worst changes in decades and it follows an often seen path that has been repeated time and time again
"something something slowly... something something then all at once"
Very informative
It's easier to blame than fix the problems
There are still thousands of prisoners from protesting on July 11th 2021. Some of them under 18 years of age.
Communist state starving because of the poor management. I am shocked.
Its bad,muy mall for our caribbean big brother, caribbean ppl let help our big brother and sister in cuba,blessings bendition,amen
Russia has to keep all their oil for themselves because Ukraine is targeting their refineries, so expect bad times for Cuba, if Russian oil is the only thing keeping them afloat that is.
Especially if disgruntled paramilitary organizations start trying to seize or destroy those shipments.
more and more terrified thinking this guy may talk about my country next
While not as action packed the history of Cyprus and its division would be interesting
#FREECUBA I live in South Florida, and the Cuban asylum seekers are some of the best humans I know. They deserve to be free. Their families are slaves. They get starved by the state. I hope they can become free. VIVA 🇨🇺 LA 🇨🇺 CUBA
If you’ve ever been to Cuba, the country is stuck in the 50s.
Backwards.
They should have learned and ended communism in the 90s
You're right, it totally has nothing to do with the US trade embargo. It's because they're "communist".
Or you know... The US could stop commiting genocide in Cuba.
(Severe economic sanctions deliberatly made to starve the population of another nation is considered as genocide by the UN aka. the official thing)
It has been taken to international court but becouse its against the US you cant do anything.
Saying Cuba should just become another Haiti style colony for western exploitation doesnt sound to well though, does it?
America should have ended the embargo after the Soviet empire collapsed. The regime would have ran out of excuses for their own shitty decisions long ago.
They should have , but didn't. They don't want ro lose power like the Soviet communists did.
@@alfredosenalle9284 why do all of you have such a strong opinion about communism and Cuba while knowing NOTHING about it?
I don't know if there's an answer to this but I'm curious to how much percentage of a population needs to leave a country for it no longer to be stable?
*cough* ThAt's IsN'T rEaL cOmMuNiSm *cough*
Its more the sancitons and embargos fir them being communist and less policies.
Funny how whenever communism has issues it's always that's not real communism but whenever capitalism has problems they're blamed wholesale.
I've always used a similar phrase as the Fat Electrician: "if you can claim 'that's not real communism' then I can claim 'that's no real capitalism' then"
"This is de amerikan kapitalist pig dogs fault for blockading ze Cubans!"
*doesn't ever mention why the US doesn't trade with Cuba*
@@arthas640God, why didn't that ever occur to me. The amount of time that would've saved me over the years...
Great video