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Or More likely then a false flag there was a smoldering fire in a coal bin igniting the the explosion. Your supposedly likely scenario is way down on the list and not very likely
My new wife sold everything and borrowed money to immigrate my to the USA 5-years ago on a F-1 student visa to escape the violence of Brazil where she worked as an ER nurse for 24-years. Her now ex husband abandoned her and their 13- year old daughter after 11-months. She kept her visa valid, managed to survive financially for 5-years, the daughter got straight A’s and just enrolled in college. Self taught herself English and Spanish with no accent. It’s taken 1 1/2 years and a lot of money to obtain the required documentation but soon my wife will be working as a RN with aspirations of becoming a nurse practitioner. Her accent is heavy but we constantly practice correct pronunciation of English words, idioms and phrases. Liz loves the USA and me. I love her dearly and look forward to each and every day with her. ❤
The video you used for the 2:11 - 2:12 fragment of your upload is from the city of La Antigua Guatemala in Guatemala. This city is not located in Cuba, rather its in Central America, although we have some shared history with Cuba with el Che guevara living here before the Fidel led cuban revolution
10:50 From what I've read, the Bay of Pigs invasion would have succeeded except for one Admiral who committed treason when he refused to support the troops who had landed. The President and the Pentagon ordered him to invade and he refused, instead allowing the marine who had landed to be slaughtered or captured.
We Filipinos learn a glimpse of Cuba in our grade school History class, because our country became a colony of Spain. The Cuban War of Independence 1895-1898 inspired the Philippine revolution against Spain. Hence, the design of flag our 🇵🇭 was also inspired by Cuba 🇨🇺. un grande abrazo hermanos desde las islas Filipinas.
@@jerseycatmews828 Cuba was also mentioned in my college years on Rizal subject. Dr. Rizal requested to leave Dapitan and travel to Cuba as a doctor in the Spanish military. In order to study the successes Cuban revolution.
There is a province in Cuba called Pinar del Rio. It used to be called Nuevas Filipinas because laborers from The Philippines went there to work in the tobacco fields.
I have travelled to Cuba on a number of occasions for work. A Cuban once told me the joke, "What do you call a Cuban orchestra when they return from a foreign tour? A quartet."
@@juanteran7003 Hi, Juan. The point was that it was often the case that Cuban choirs, orchestras, ballet companies etc. that went on foreign tours (especially to the free west) would experience defections and return with fewer members.
@@brianirwin5296 that's also why there are tons of Cuban sports stars, especially in baseball and boxing, but there aren't nearly as many sports stars _in_ Cuba. I've heard that in Cuban boxing they have a huge issue with boxers basically escaping the first chance they get because they can literally make 100x the money in the US and be free of 99% of the government oversight.
I visited Cuba in summer of 2022. Beautiful country with amazing hospitable people but you could just tell there was a significant degree of desperation going on. At times i felt bad being a tourist vacationing while the locals were struggling to get by. Lots of shortages everywhere
Yet they keep breeding like flies to add to their dire straits...Don't worry America has open southern borders and the Democrats will let in another 50 million refugees before you can say cat in the hat. COME ONE COME ALL, NOW THAT WE ARE THE WORD'S NUMBER ONE IMMIGRATION DUMPING GROUND.
@@zsmith4853 excuse me? The reason Cuba is in shambles is communism dummy. We don’t play with evil regimes like in Cuba, Iran, anywhere. Not sure if you’re really dumb or trolling. One nation boycotting Cuba isn’t the reason its bad. It has plenty of other nations they could trade with. One single country not trading with them isn’t keeping them in shambles. It’s communism idiot
Thank you 💛 for this. I grew up with a girl from Cuba. Her parents brought her to Miami Beach Florida and they escaped from Cuba approximately in 1955-1960. I loved them. Cookie was my best friend. Learned some Spanish too. Cubans are a wonderful people. Beautiful country and culture.
My father was a doctor in Cuba, he escaped on a boat and was caught by the coast guard about halfway to Florida. They brought them back to Guantanamo bay where a lot of them returned to their lives. However my father got the opportunity to work as a doctor in Guantanamo for a few months. They helped him become a resident of the United States, secured him the ability to come to the nation legally, and provided him with a healthy wage. In Miami, my father was homeless; for a while sleeping in churches whenever he could and working wherever would accept him. Until a friendly man named Victor found him one day on a Sunday morning and gave him a place to stay. He was also a Cuban migrant but one that came here very long ago, he was quite good at English. Victor provided my father with a stable home and helped him get enrolled in school to get recertified as a doctor. Victor passed away about 10 years ago, but my family will never forget the kind man that he was. Today you can find hundreds of people just like my father, most of them work very traditional jobs here in America. I worked at my father's office and there was an employee who specialized in neurosurgery, yet she works as an office technician now. The situation in Cuba is very interesting, because though their economy is a shadow of it's former self their education has managed to stay relatively top-notch. They have a lot of very skilled workers in their market who work for an extremely unreasonable price.
My Grandparents on my father's side were university professors in Santiago, they fled to Puerto Rico after the revolution with nothing but the clothes on their backs. The governor at the time, Luis Munoz Marin welcomed the Cuban diaspora and hired many of them as professors at the University of Puerto Rico as many were well educated. Also many became successful businessmen. ✌️
An excellent book describing life pre and post revolution Cuba written by a Cuban exile is " Waiting for Snow in Havana". Makes you understand everything you see and the Cuban mentality when you visit Cuba.
Apparently Cuba's private motorized transport is still made up of 1950s and 1960s cars made in the US. While this is a testimony of the mechanical skiils of the Cuban mechanics in keeping these antique cars running, this apparently iconic nature of Cuban streets is a real indicator of the isolation of Cuba's island economy for 60 years.
It's not isolation, the communist gov't has done business with very developed nation (outside of the US, and not entirely true since the Embargo is BS). The problem is there has never been a prosperous communist gov't, its foundations were not created by an economist, but by an alcoholic social scientist. I wonder how Cuba would be if the revolution hadn't happened. Most likely, akin to Switzerland and the other small rich European countries
@@unnaturalselection8330 That is true. Detroit was the richest city in US and deserving of it. Those cars are built like tanks and simple to repair. Today, we built cars like portable phones (actually phone companies are building concept cars). My old man was a mechanic/engineer(patents), and he used to say the more shit (conveniences) you put in a car, the less reliable it will be. Tesla can keep its truck, if I could ever find a jeep from that era, they will bury my ass in it.
@Pete-107 the sanctions are absolutely the biggest factor in them being so poor. "Communism" isn't even their economical structure, it hasn't been any countries actual economy. There are social communists, but their economy is socialism.
Cuba also has a Catholicism Factor (all Catholic countries are corrupt because of infallible Patriarchal culture). This never gets mentioned just like the 2011 European PIIGS (Portugal, Italy,Ireland, Greece, and Spain,) economic disaster. Bye!!!!
=COUP WAS SUPPORTED BY THE US,ISNT THAT........AT LEAST APPROVED.....AND SO ON AND SO ON =BUT......IN FACT,CUBA MUST'VE BEEN GIVEN A STATUS SAME OF PUERTO RICO.......AND OUTRIGHT US CITIZENSHIP AND TURNING CUBA INTO A STATE.......BECAUSE OF IT'S ONLY WAY TO GO ON HAWAII'S WAY OF PROSPERITY
@@guru47pi it’s more complicated than just Fulgencio Batista taking power. It should have been explained in the video he was explicitly backed by the US because he matched their interests. It shouldn’t just be said in passing conversation. That aspect is very important and another reason why Castro was able to take power because it fueled even more anger towards the US.
This is an outstanding video. The actions over many years of numerous politicians from Cuba, Russia and USA have been corrupt and deplorable. Of course, the bull-headed arrogance of those politicians would prevent an ounce of introspection.
Thank you for this video, I’m a 1st generation Cuban immigrant and my father has told me about the politics, livelihood and poverty in Cuba. I never heard much about the economy but what I did hear from him was most of the money most citizens made was through farming, selling meat and baked goods. My father grew up in the countryside and his family owned/ worked in SEVERAL farms and still struggled in poverty due to high taxation and unstable market. The last time I visited a box of cereal was $20. He was around during the height of Castro’s power and one thing I wish was emphasized was how little he cared for his people, even economically. There was virtually no middle class, money from every establishment and almost every trade went to politicians, not the rich, poor, education, infrastructure, or law enforcement. Only the politicians.
@@DESERTH4WK the embargo only sanctions politicians, normal cuban citizens dont have any international restrictions whatsoever, its the government who wont allow us into any economic activity, just selling guavas from your own backyard tree is "ilegal enrichment" and punished by years in prision. In the last few years they've opened up the economy a bit, allowing for private enterprises below 50 workers, and was the only way some food was produced in/imported to the island, even many state enterprises administrators had to find some "ilegal" workaround trough some of this micro enterprises to import goods, because the government wont lend them anything but cuban pesos, which are of course useless on international markets. Me myself, trough one of this micro enterprises, was the one who buyed stuff for the havana university, who doesnt have the money to buy outside the country, but not because of any "embargo" bs, just because the politicians wont give them the money to do so, because if they did lend them us dollars they could buy stuff from where ever in the world they wanted.
The explosion of the Maine wasn’t a false flag operation. The ship most likely suffered a magazine explosion, something that was not-unheard of in the era. The chemistry of propellants in that era was not fully understood and some of them were not completely stable in the long term, especially when exposed to long periods of high temperature.
@@fusionreactor7179 No, it really wasn’t convenient. It was actually really inconvenient. The US Navy in the 1890s was not anything like the modern one. It was very small and chronically underfunded. The USS Maine was one of only 5 battleships that it had. Losing the Maine represented a significant reduction in the navy’s combat power and a loss of valuable and expensive piece of military hardware. And perhaps most notably, blowing it up would have been completely unnecessary if Congress wanted to go to war to colonize Cuba. The yellow press had already whipped up plenty of anti-Spanish sentiment. The country wouldn’t have *needed* to blow up one of its own warships and kill its own sailors as an excuse. The idea that the Maine was a false flag is patently ridiculous.
@@rartu Because he had spent years trying to whip up war with Spain. His reporters were there when war happened, because they had been active against Spain for a long time.
@@michaelimbesi2314 The USS Maine wasn't a false flag because it likely exploded accidentally. However, I'm 95% sure that the US rushed to blame Spain in order to expand their territory and navel power
=NOPE......IN ORDER OF DOING THAT,CUBA MUST'VE BEEN GIVEN A STATEHOOD,LIKE HAWAII .........RADICAL??--YES.......BUT ONLY STATEHOOD AND CITIZENSHIP OF ALL IT'S LOCALS WAS THE REAL CAUSE OF HAWAII TO THRIVE........BECAUSE OF THAT'S HOW THINGS WORK.....AND WOULD VE BEEN WORKING FOR CUBA
@Master Robotnik Ststehood only works if there's a land connection to the mainland because of the Marine Merchant Act. Otherwise, statehood or any form of colonial and/or territorial status with the USA would only increase the cost of living, as seen in Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Alaska and other US territories.
Very educational video. Thank you. Just wanted to point out that many of the clips showing "the people of cuba" are in fact clips from Guatemala, not Cuba. I understand the creator of the video needed filler clips to create the full video and that's fine, but just wanted to point out to those who don't know that most of the closeups of people shown are in fact not Cubans.
@@chacmool2581 yeah I mean, I'm actually Cuban. I could tell from a mile away those weren't Cubans from the way the dressed and the way they looked. Then I looked more closely and a street sign gave it away as being Guatemala
I did a trip to Cuba over the year change from 2018 into 2019 and this trip honestly changed my life! It made me so much more humbled. I booked a tour with a cuban company because i didnt want to support foreign companys and we got lucky that no one else booked out date so we had a tourguide for ourself, the changed the travel style a bit we hadnt a big bus but mostly taxis or private people the tourguide knew who drove us from a to b! We flew with a very old Antonov from a small national airport outside Havanna to the east coast and drove back...got to meet the family of the tourguide, stayed at small Casa paticulares got nice but small breakfast here all very much like we were part of their family for a day or two. Geting to know them and their life the good but also a lot of bad sides, the smile on peoples face when we got them food (basic stuff where kids in germany are mad if they dont get strawberry jogurt, they were just happy to get 1 cup jogurt the kind that was in stores this week) and it made me sad to see how much food we waste in western world and see people there starv or wait for hours to buy a bread...
“The Economic Blockade that United States imposed on Cuba, and which has been uninterrupted for more than 60 years, is product of the revenge of Dulles brothers against Fidel Castro, as a result of Castro expropriating the United Fruit Company (UFCO), more than 50,000 hectares of cultivation (Sugar Cane). Allen Dulles (CIA Director), and his brother John Foster Dulles (US Secretary of State), were a shareholder in UFCO, and were on the payroll for more than 20 years. Both Bros. demanded payment from Cuban Gov’t for the land expropriated at ridiculously high amount, when United Fruit Co. had obtained these large estates for $7 dollars per hectare and demanded compensation for $4,800 dollars per hectare. Castro was also asked to pay the cost of hotels, houses and casinos owned by the New York Mafia and other figures of high politics in the US. As Cuba does not pay, the Economic Blockade continues. “If we can't assassinate Castro, let's assassinate his economy”. Now, 12 Presidents have passed in the White House, and the Blockade continues. Castro, Dulles Bros., Meyer Lansky, Kennedy, LBJ and all that generation have already died; they are no longer here. And the Economic Blockade continues. Why? Why, if Castro NEVER affected the interests of the US people? Castro affected the interests of the New York Mafia, the UFCO and the interests of the Dulles Brothers. The Castro Gov't affected the interests some companies (6 companies), that conspired to assassinate him, but not affected the US People. (It would be an example to say that Mexico imposed an Economic Block on the US, cuz the US Gov’t confiscated properties from “El Chapo”, or from the Mexican Drug Trafficking Cartels). Castro never seized property from US citizens. Castro only seized the property of the New York Mafia. So, why? If perhaps the reason for the Blockade was cuz Fidel Castro was an ally of USSR, well, USSR has not existed for more than 30 years either. Then why? What is the reason for continuing with this Economic Blockade against Cuba? The answer to these questions, in any case, would be: "Cuz a dark power within the US wants to impose itself in Cuba, violating its sovereignty, in the same way that it has done and continues to do so throughout the world with the weakest nations". No common citizen of the US has anything against the Cuban people, but a certain sector of the Government's High Politics does…” Now, If you want to know about the atrocities and massacres of the UFCO and the CIA in Chile, Venezuela, Peru, Colombia, Cuba, all the Caribbean and Central America, consult Wikipedia: “Wars of the Banana Republics”. (From Stephen Kinzer book: “The Brothers”). Write the latter that appears in parentheses, and verify this information right here on RUclips. Or, do the same and search for it on Google. In History Channel: ruclips.net/video/Mu5pWe8cQSo/видео.html “Batista y la Mafia en Cuba”. .
Fidel Castro was much worse than General Batista and the Mafia who was there. He allowed no private property and businesses whatsoever. Everything was the property of the State. I pray for the fall of Communist Cuba despite it being the birthplace of my and my late parents.
Well, there’s yet another “life-changing” journey story from a western princess, who apparently needed to witness extreme poverty elsewhere to feel humbled 😂. Seriously though, wtf did you think was going on before that trip?
You know Cuba was a brutal and oppressive US backed military dictatorship till the revolution in 1959 right? And only the elite class of cuba profited from the "economic prosperity". Cuba is today more democratic than it ever was up until the revolution.
Well those periods were not exactly democratic. The presidents ftom the 30s and 40s had to conply with America's wishes asas was set up in the Platt Amendment. Furthermore, the presidents of that time did not last long and were replaced one after another by the army who called the shots The economy was prosperous in that time only because it was the american corporations who benefited from the income.
@@cgt3704 Pre-communist Cuba had the highest middle-class per capita in Latin America. And although USA was an interventionist shadow, as in pest, since its "independence", Cuba was never a plantation society such Jamaica or Haiti. Neither was Dominican Republic for that matter... Truth be told, capitalist Cuba had unions and a strong civic society regardless of who was president.
About the same scenario happened in my country called the Philippines. It was a decent paradise until some things like insurgency, economic restrictions called the 60/40 FDI rule, corruption, and excessive bureaucracy came to reality. All of these issues are the root causes of their outdated system that was supposed to change every 19 years or so.
Lol stop your propaganda, Marcos regime makes the country worst, their corrupt dynasty ruined everything, good thing PH now escaped from that brink of collapse. Stop blaiming the 60/40 system, blame the corrupt politicians and their corrupt system!
Almost any system that only changes every 19 years or so is probably going to become corrupt and outdated. Must be incredibly frustrating, at best, to watch things be mismanaged in your own country….so sorry to hear that.
It’s interesting to see how you were corporations were basically exploiting the entire country and the solution would’ve been to pass laws banning American ownership in the same way other countries have banned Chinese ownership. These corporations are soulless and grasping, and what was going on in Cuba 1950s despite all of their prosperity, was completely unfair to the Cuban people.
I visited Cuba back in 2015, and so many locals were literally tearing up after learning I was visiting from America.. the hope in their expressions and voices for a rekindling in our government's relationship was one of the strongest emotions I've ever expirenced
@@suyapapi2298 and you're full of it, it is absolutely true. If United States government got its ass out of its head and normalize relations with Cuba that place would be a booming Paradise and the standard of living would rise dramatically. Combine the best of Hawaii and Mexico and you've got Cuba.
I don't know if you're aware of the existence of the São Paulo Forum (FSP), also known as the Foro de São Paulo. Check what it's about and who is part of it and a lot of latin american politics will start to make sense. Its highly related with when castro announced cuba was all alone and how that dictatorship hasn't collapse for decades despite de lack of economic sustainability (which you briefly mentioned at the end regarding venezuela) ((it's the very thing that connects venezuela and cuba)).
Great analysis, though I would have liked to see stuff about Miguel Diaz-Canel, the leader since 2021 who's also the first non-Castro in charge since the revolution. He allowed private businesses to open up last year, though I haven't heard much of a follow up since.
@@b.a.2406 you ignore the sanctions put on Cuba as a big factor to their lack of economic development despite these sanctions they have managed to make a lot of strives in areas of research and more
I lived in Miami for a year, working at a Lutheran church where the congregation was primarily Cuban, and I fell in love with the people and the culture. The priest/pastor there managed to make several trips a year to Cuba, always taking Bibles, clothes, and gifts from people in the congregation to relatives in Cuba. When Pope John Paul II visited Cuba I and many others were excited, thinking that U.S. President Bill Clinton would use the event to open up relations with our neighbor, and were disappointed and angry when it became clear that Clinton lacked the vision to recognize the opportunity. That later presidents have done little to change things I find both idiotic and tragic.
The video that you used at 2:11 minutes of the cobblestone streets with modern cars and a bus in the background is not from Cuba but from Antigua, Guatemala as can clearly be seen by the red banner in the upper left on the screen.
Been a couple times to cuba and man I loved the country side. Its a very diverse country, with some mind blowingly beautiful vistas. Hope I will return some day 😍
it's important to point out the economic down turn after the Cuban revolution was exacerbated by the US government claiming over 80 - 90% of all agricultural and arable land, the telephone and communication lines, and took 2/3rds of all the sugar fields after occupying the country. as a result of Castro returning the means of production back to the people, the American government tried to overthrow the government like it did to with the banana republic, to reinstall a Capitalist leader back into the Cuban gov now known as the failed coup 'the pay of pigs' also it was America that restricted travel from cubans to america. they purposely restricted the number of visas handed out to cubans, as well as blocking food, medicine, supply's that the people would of needed to have a stable economy effectively crippling cuba on purpose, all because they weren't capitalists
"The US government" didn't "claim" 80-90% of arable land, that's a lie. Private companies based in the US owned a lot of the arable land in Cuba, and there's a difference. And those companies paid a fair price for that land, nobody forced the Cubans to sell it. American companies invested a lot of money in Cuba building hotels, oil refineries, and more. This is the reason Cuba was rich prior to Castro, as explained in the video. When Castro stole American property, the American government stepped in to defend its citizens by placing embargos on Cuba. Also let's not forget that Castro wanted to allow the Soviet Union to put nuclear weapons on Cuba pointed directly at the US. Americans have a right to defend our property and our safety. Cuba being poor is 100% the fault of Cubans and nobody else. You're poor because you are thieves who stupidly stole property from hard working citizens of the most powerful nation on earth located very close to you, and because you have zero understanding of economics, trade or how to be a good neighbor in general.
I am a Cuban that escaped, this is a great video showing both sides of the argument, and saying the truth that partisan media won't, the Cuban government never really meant well, they loved power so much, they never let go.
YUM YUM power. Even though they’re system failed and they nationalized almost everything they still haven’t changed their system bec if pride and ignorance
Being here now for almost 8 years, about to leave tomorrow actually. I can tell with confidence that most Cubans who are capable elect to leave by any means necessary, there's so much going that the embargo isn't enough to blame everything on, so many people are leaving on the daily it's crazy out here.
True you can't blame the embargo on *everything*, but most things, yes. Which is odd that this video treats it like a footnote. Pretty much all the absurd compromises and economic fluctuations in Cuba, starvation, energy crisis, etc. is a direct result of the embargo.
@aprotosis Nah. They've had time to restructure their economy. The Cunan government has made the embargo the scapegoat for Cuba's woes, when in fact it's the corrupt government.
@@jamesmcinnis208 How exactly do you think an island nation can restructure their economy when the strongest nation on the planet has prohibited them from having any meaningful trade partners for over 60 years? Especially when the only given answer from those outside powers is to allow colonial capitalism to effectively steal their resources and exploit their labor piecemeal? A modern nation cannot survive without trade.
Why does a socialist country need the ability to trade with a capitalist country to work? Its embargo that only applies to the United States while allowing for food and drugs to be traded. Cuba is free to trade with the rest of the world yet it’s americas fault their poor?
@@KevinEdudeNo the economic warfare waged by the US which has been ruled against by every nation in the UN apart from the US and Isreal. The embargo which prevents companies from trading with Cuba and the US at the same time and the same embargo the US has used to deprive the Cubans from oxygen and other medical necessities especially during the pandemic. Also the communist party has no say in who runs the country all political party’s are banned from interfering in democratic votes. Being a member of the Cuban Communist Party is hard you must be elected by your community for your dedication to helping them and others and is basically just a way to show your dedicated and a good person on a CV. The majority of Cubans love their system and defend it only being reinforced by the unjust economic warfare the US has declared for half a century costing Cuba around 15 million a day and some estimates of a trillion dollars since it was imposed.
America's "sanctions" against Cuba were nothing more than a mass economic withdrawal from Cuba. Cuba was doing fine after the "sanctions" until the new communist dictator took over.
Fascinating video! I actually went to a pretty good school system (USA), but until now the only thing I knew about Cuba’s role in history was the Cuban missile crisis.
I do not know if the horrors of communist in Cuba where as bad as in Korea, china or communist Russia but, it happened in Cuba. and , if you add "the missile crisis" as dressing to that merciless salad of sanction , it will add a taste of shamelessness too
Same as Venezuela, apparently. Before the Great Depression, my grandfather spent some vacations in Cuba. As he told it, he had a KB Lincoln that was shipped there and back for his use. He lost the money in the thirties, though.
Cuba even slipped from top spot in world Cigar production. A spot they held unchallenged for a hundred years. The high quality Cuban tobacco proved dependent on the magic touch of a small group of now deceased farmers. Something their "revolutionary" replacements have found impossible to duplicate.
Cuba should drop communism. Look at the whole of Latin America and examine the countries there. The ones prospering and with better standards of living are the ones that rejected marxist-communist ideologies and economic policies in favor liberalism and capitalism. Same with many countries in Africa. To the people who seriously think the embargo is the main reason for Cuba's economic and social problems, you need help. The embargo doesn't prevent other countries from trading with them and it doesn't even prevent some American businesses from trading with them. Their issues are mainly due to their inept and despotic communist government. The embargo on them is far far less severe than what America imposes on Iran or Russia or North Korea yet Cuba still does poorly? What's their excuse?
Unlike Cuba, USA has fast natural resources yet systematically suffers from problems like people dying because they can't afford to go to a doctor and has massive drug abuse and homeless problem. Cuba far exceeds USA in these areas yet is small country under heavy trade embargo. So yea, Marxism beats capitalism any day
Always despised the rather stupid idea that capitalism somehow brings prosperity, sub-Saharan Africa is extraordinarily poor and completely capitalist. And this completely ignores the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union was a completely inefficient mess, but this completely inefficient mess managed to turn a backwards practically feudal state into one almost on par with the US in just a couple of decades while also going through tens of millions dead and the razing of half the country. Even despite its inefficiencies it’s system still manage to accomplish all that it did speaks more to what an efficient centrally planned economy really do.
@@blackgold2589 I am quite surprised. As a Nigerian, it's unusual for me to see a westerner condemn capitalism and actually assert that it is harming and undermining much of Africa. Can you explain this to me? I mean, when countries like Botswana, Kenya, even my country of Nigeria, Morocco, Ethiopia, Rwanda (after their horrible genocide) all prove how capitalism can positively benefit a country via job creation, foreign investment, property rights, increased liberalism, increased standard of living, industrialisation, improved medicine and health care, modern education, reduced poverty etc, how exactly can you tell me that capitalism has been a negative for Africa?
@@cursedhusk598 Oh you mean those corrupt crime-ridden Central American countries? What do they have to do with my point? As I recall, I listed capitalism and liberalism in my initial comment. Why are you omitting Latin-American countries like Chile, Paraguay, Costa Rica, and Uruguay?
Before 1959, Cuba was one of the most developed countries in Latin America and showed socioeconomic indexes higher than those of many regions in the center of the United States or southern Europe, reference areas for ordinary Cubans, which were not usually compared with their Central American or Caribbean counterparts. 1- The first public lighting system in all of Latin America (including Spain) was installed in Cuba in 1889. 2- Cuba was the first nation in Latin America and the third in the world (after England and the US) to have a railway, in 1837. 3- Cuba was the first Latin American nation to apply ether anesthesia in 1847. 4- The first world demonstration of an industry driven by electricity was in Havana in 1877. 5- The first tram that was known in Latin America, circulated in Havana in the year 1900. 6- Also in 1900, before any other Latin American country, the first automobile arrived in Havana. 7- The first city in the world to have telephone with direct dialing (without the need for an operator) was Havana in 1906. 8- In 1907, the first X-ray department in Latin America opened in Havana. 9- In 1922 Cuba was the second nation in the world to inaugurate a radio station, PWX, and the first nation in the world to broadcast a music concert and present a radio newscast. In 1928 Cuba already had 61 radio stations, 43 of them in Havana, ranking fourth in the world, surpassed only by the US, Canada and the Soviet Union. In 1935 Cuba became the largest exporter to Latin America of scripts and radio recordings. 10- In 1925, with less than 200 plants, the nascent Cuban nation produced more than 5 million tons of sugar. At that time, most of the mills and farms were in the hands of foreigners, but already by the end of the 1950s, of the 161 mills working, 131 were owned by Cubans with 60% of the total production. 11- The Delicias mill became the largest in Cuba, with a milling capacity of 780,000 arrobas of cane per day. In 1952 it produced 1,383,653 bags of sugar. 12- In 1937 Cuba decreed for the first time in Ibero-America the Law of eight-hour workday, the minimum wage and university autonomy (the latter eliminated by Castro at the beginning of his tyranny). 13- In 1940 Cuba approved the most advanced of all the constitutions in the world of that time. It was the first in Latin America to recognize the right to vote for women, equal rights between the sexes and races, and the right of women to work. 14- The first country in the world that built a hotel with central air conditioning was Cuba. It was the Hotel Riviera, in 1951. And also the first building in the world built with reinforced concrete was made in Havana: the Focsa, in 1952. 15- In 1954 Cuba had one cow for every inhabitant, and ranked third in Latin America (after Argentina and Uruguay) in per capita meat consumption. 16- In 1955 Cuba was the second country in Latin America with the lowest infant mortality: 33.4 per thousand births. 17- In 1956 the UN recognized Cuba as the second country in Latin America with the lowest illiteracy rate (only 23.6%). Haiti had 90%, Spain, El Salvador, Bolivia, Venezuela, Brazil, Peru, Guatemala and the Dominican Republic, 50%. 18- In 1957, the UN recognized Cuba as the best country in Latin America in number of doctors per capita (1 for every 957 inhabitants), with the highest percentage of electrified homes (82.9%) and homes with their own bathrooms (79.9%). and the second country (after Uruguay) in caloric consumption per capita daily. 19- In 1957 Havana became the second city in the world to have 3D cinema and multi-screens (Cine Radio Centro, today Yara) 20- In 1958, according to the Statistical Yearbook of Cuba, there were 7,567 public (free) and 869 private primary schools on the island, that is, 8,436 in total. Of the public schools, 1,206 were in the countryside. In the mid-50s, public education had 25,000 teachers, and private education 3,500. There were seven times as many public teachers as private ones. 21- In 1958 Cuba was the second country in the world to broadcast color television. 22- In 1958 Cuba is the Latin American country with the most automobiles (160,000, one for every 38 inhabitants) and the sixth in the world in the average number of automobiles per inhabitant. 23- Cuba was in 1958 the country that had the most electrical appliances. The country with the most kilometers of railway lines per square km, and in the total number of radio receivers. 24- Despite its small size and that it only had 6.5 million inhabitants in 1958, Cuba was ranked 29th among the largest economies in the world. What would have happened then if Cuba had followed the democratic course that Batista took and the Constitution of 1940 had been respected? Can you imagine the development that Cuba would have today?
@@jabaltariq4606 Castro's multi-account henchman, Cuba, in 1958, 62% of the sugar mills were owned by Cuban citizens; 37% from US consortia and the remaining 1% from Spain and France; and that the 1952 harvest was for more than 7 million tons of sugar (in 2010 it barely reached 1.1, it was announced in May). During the fifties Cuba came to contribute 21.37% of world sugar production with a territory the size of the Baja California peninsula. Carlos Rafael Rodríguez would have told him that in health, education, transportation, telephony, railways, radio and TV, and of course, in sugar and tobacco production, Cuba was then and in almost everything, one of the two, sometimes the third and sometimes often the first country in Latin America, in those areas and some more. Cuba was self-sufficient in the consumption of sugar, milk, coffee, tobacco, tropical fruits and beef (since 1940); and practically self-sufficient in seafood, pork, tubers, vegetables, poultry, eggs, and shoe production. When Fidel Castro took power in Cuba, there were 6,325,000 head of cattle, of which 940,000 were dairy cows (the fifth largest producer in the region, according to the UN), for a population of six million; the data is from 1961, published by the Agrarian Reform Institute. For the period 1986-1989, they themselves reported that the per capita production of bovine meat had fallen by half compared to the level of 1958. The year 2000 is almost disastrous: there are fewer head of cattle than in 1946: 4,110,200 -the figure includes dairy cattle, if any. For a population 2.5 times larger. The figures are from the Statistical Yearbook of Cuba, reported by Óscar Espinosa Chepe (Cuba / Revolución o involución, Madrid, Aduana Vieja, 2007). The author is an economist, independent journalist, former official of the Banco Nacional de Cuba, former diplomat; imprisoned in 2003. Everything indicates that most of the bovine population has already gone through butcher shops: by 2010, at least 80% of the food consumed in Cuba is imported from the United States: chicken, corn, wheat, soybeans and powdered milk. While the fifteen countries with the highest milk production in Latin America increased their production by 228% during the period 1958-1996, Castro's Cuba increased its milk production by 11%. Despite the fact that in Castro's Cuba only those under seven and over 65 years of age drink milk, it is necessary to import milk. In 1958 Cuba was also self-sufficient in the consumption of evaporated and condensed milk. It is evident that today even the dairy cows ended up in the butcher shop. The authors of A Study on Cuba (University of Miami, 1965) state that the importation of meat from Canada and the United States began in 1960, when, incredibly, the authors say, it was sent to slaughterhouses to be studded, before the imminent famine. On the other hand, in pre-Castro Cuba, the import of fresh bovine meat was suspended in 1940, the year in which self-sufficiency was achieved and exports began (there was never foot-and-mouth disease in Cuba). From the 1940s to 1958, the kilogram of beef cost an average of 51.5 cents and annual consumption was 112.4 pounds per capita. At that time, Cubans had the highest protein intake in Latin America, after Argentina and Uruguay; more than 80% of the livestock was owned by Cuban citizens.
Today countries do not care who owns the capital, what they are looking for is that there are investments in the country, regardless of the country they are from, Castro's multi-account henchman. Castro's own tyranny today tries to attract capital, only that its history of stealing other people's property and the fact of being a bad debt payer does not help it.
Do you guys know that if you own a cow in Cuba yo can't kill it to eat or sell the meat? The government put a tag on one of the cow ears and come to check the cow every month. The government owns all the cows, if you kill one and they catch you you go to prison for 30 years. Yet they don't sell the meat in the market for the population they have a notebook for each family to receive the monthly food including meat, one pound of everything for each person in the family, other than that you have to buy it un the "black market" illegally and overpriced think about what you make working in a month for just a pound of meat, oil to cook, etc. That my friends is socialism, if you want to go and live pure socialism go to live in Cuba so you finally learn the lesson and don't vote for Democrats again in your life.
@@jabaltariq4606most of the businesses were owned by Cubans 💀 Americans would just open shop but that doesn’t mean the majority were gringos most Cubans before the revolution were rich even though it had lots of poverty also many black Cubans were wealthy also. And Cuban rich were more wealthier than the very millionaires living here in the U.S
I just love your videos, you explain everything so interestingly. There is one thing I would also like to ask for, and maybe a suggestion, I tried to google a documentary about Gabon but couldn't find, every documentary talking about an african success story is usually Botswana, Rwanda and Ghana, but Gabon is richer than all of them (by per capita), so I'd love to see something about how Gabon and Equatorial Guinea are so rich.
I am cuban. I lived half of my live in Cuba and the other half in the United States. I warn you, USA looks every day closer to what I saw in Cuba, please do not destroy this country voting for Kamala, don't be stupid.
Thank you! I have 3 daughters (in their 30s) who are liberal. I would love them to visit Cuba and see for themselves what I saw there a few years ago - all I kept thinking was, “American dogs live better than the Cuban people.” There should be programs to take these young adults to see what socialism will bring! Im searching! Many Americans might send their WOKE kids to see what is coming to America if they continue voting blue. It saddens me so to see our American way of life becoming what it is - and ignorance is voting it in.
A realistic retrospective will reveal that the United States gained significant intelligence from Soviet involvement in Cuba. That same dynamic has been operative in Taiwan for decades with technological and strategic advantages accumulating much in favor of the Peoples Republic of China.
Taipei has been a stalwart practitioner of practical pragmatism. Taipei could jump into the Beijing sphere of influence at the drop of a hat. Havana has been a 'lost-child' looking for love and security. The current U.S. Administration is in a unique position to cement a new relationship with Latin America with Kamala Harris and Doug Emhoff leading that 'charm-offensive'.
No it's not. Very inaccurate. A better comparison would be Cuba compared to El Salvador, Honduras, Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua. Inlude crime rates, Healthcare, literacy, and drug crimes, and progress to combat climate change. Cuba starts to look pretty good.
@@aloneil1089 And non of those countries can blame communism or socialism for their shortcomings and large refugee out flows. I have noticed that all of the documentaries which focus on communism seem to be okay with the race based chattel slavery which went on in Cuba until nearly 1900 and with the race and color hierarchy which continues to exist in Cuba and in all of the rest of the ex-slave states in the Americas to this day.
My grandparent was a farmer in Cuba before the revolution when he was 6 they kicked his family out of his house and burned his house same shit happened to my grandmother.
Foreign investment does nothing more than strip resources and export profits. Governments keep describing it as a good thing because the kickbacks they get are staggering.
“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries." Winston Churchill. Cuba committed suicide going Socialist. RIP.
@@CasualScholar woah...... this is weird, I seem to have been unsubscribed from your channel somehow for the last 5 months. Even though I remember subscribing to you a year ago.... Well, I am resubscribing. No idea what youtube did there. But at least I have 5 months of videos now to catch up on, so there is one positive haha.
The Maine was a brand new ship (commissioned 1895) and sunk in 1898 with most of her crew. We know after analysis a century later that she probably blew her own magazine, but it sure as shit wasn't 'most likely a false flag'.
@Keith Bolender yes, and that's acknowledged in our history books; this doesn't diminish the fact of this channel mischaracterizing the incident and adding connotations which do not comply with the fact of the event.
I agree completely. The most likely root cause was a coal bunker fire. As far as I am concerned this channel lost all credibility with just that statement, for which there is absolutely no support. I find it very sloppy and have to wonder what other utter nonsense is lurking in the videos.
Just saw your video. I'm a natural born cuban, and living here. You're very accurate in every definition you just mentioned. Excellent job! Cuba shall be free someday! Viva Cuba Libre!
“The Economic Blockade that United States imposed on Cuba, and which has been uninterrupted for more than 60 years, is product of the revenge of Dulles brothers against Fidel Castro, as a result of Castro expropriating the United Fruit Company (UFCO), more than 50,000 hectares of cultivation (Sugar Cane). Allen Dulles (CIA Director), and his brother John Foster Dulles (US Secretary of State), were a shareholder in UFCO, and were on the payroll for more than 20 years. Both Bros. demanded payment from Cuban Gov’t for the land expropriated at ridiculously high amount, when United Fruit Co. had obtained these large estates for $7 dollars per hectare and demanded compensation for $4,800 dollars per hectare. Castro was also asked to pay the cost of hotels, houses and casinos owned by the New York Mafia and other figures of high politics in the US. As Cuba does not pay, the Economic Blockade continues. “If we can't assassinate Castro, let's assassinate his economy”. Now, 12 Presidents have passed in the White House, and the Blockade continues. Castro, Dulles Bros., Meyer Lansky, Kennedy, LBJ and all that generation have already died; they are no longer here. And the Economic Blockade continues. Why? Why, if Castro NEVER affected the interests of the US people? Castro affected the interests of the New York Mafia, the UFCO and the interests of the Dulles Brothers. The Castro Gov't affected the interests some companies (6 companies), that conspired to assassinate him, but not affected the US People. (It would be an example to say that Mexico imposed an Economic Block on the US, cuz the US Gov’t confiscated properties from “El Chapo”, or from the Mexican Drug Trafficking Cartels). Castro never seized property from US citizens. Castro only seized the property of the New York Mafia. So, why? If perhaps the reason for the Blockade was cuz Fidel Castro was an ally of USSR, well, USSR has not existed for more than 30 years either. Then why? What is the reason for continuing with this Economic Blockade against Cuba? The answer to these questions, in any case, would be: "Cuz a dark power within the US wants to impose itself in Cuba, violating its sovereignty, in the same way that it has done and continues to do so throughout the world with the weakest nations". No common citizen of the US has anything against the Cuban people, but a certain sector of the Government's High Politics does…” Now, If you want to know about the atrocities and massacres of the UFCO and the CIA in Chile, Venezuela, Peru, Colombia, Cuba, all the Caribbean and Central America, consult Wikipedia: “Wars of the Banana Republics”. (From Stephen Kinzer book: “The Brothers”). Write the latter that appears in parentheses, and verify this information right here on RUclips. Or, do the same and search for it on Google. In History Channel: ruclips.net/video/Mu5pWe8cQSo/видео.html “Batista y la Mafia en Cuba”. .
Cuban millionaires were wealthier than Americans millionaires. 29th largest economy in the world surpassing Japan, Spain and Austria and had one of the lowest infant mortality in Latin America
This video says all the truth about my country, all that has been said here are facts, and is sad to see my country in this situation. I hope one day we all gather the strength to fight for our freedom, Castro is dead but we still live under a tyranny!!!
@@3markaw Not as long as so many Cubans look to the U.S. as a friend and ally while being choked and starved by them at the same time. This video mentioned the embargo ONCE! It's like doing a documentary on WWII and not mentioning Hitler.
This is a nice documentary, it is not the entire picture but nothing is. What it does and does it well is it opens up one’s appetite for more. Anyone taking interest in this island and subject deserves kudos. Well done!
Cuba went into rapid decline once the Soviet Union collapsed and no longer provided financial support. Now 2 years of Covid restrictions has decimated their one main source of foreign currency, tourism. Power outages for most of the day and soaring inflation, has the population starving.
This is the result of the United States foreign policy which favors corporate interests. Castro appealed to Eisenhower to accept the revolution. He was prepared to have a pro democracy government some accommodations for the workers, etc. He was rebuffed and went the full communist route.
@@dianemitchell1717 maybe if Cuba favored corporate interests instead of Communist enslavement they wouldn't be broke and starving..? 😅 "Company" comes from "con pan" because you break bread with your co-workers... Ain't no bread in Cuba tho tovarisch💯
@@dianemitchell1717 The US under Eisenhower did support the revolution and quit supplying arms to the Batista regime at a critical moment when they could have crushed the revolution. The US/Cuba divide didn't come until after the revolution was successful and Castro started appropriating the property of US citizens. The embargo was a bit of an over-reaction but the reality is it is not why Cuba is poor. Central planning based around non diversified exports is. The embargo is actually pretty leaky and loads of places still trade with Cuba but the value of Cuban exports has diminished. They mostly export tobacco and sugar. Sugar is not as valuable as it once was due to cheap high fructose corn syrup, and tobacco is now competing with loads of other South American countries. It didn't help that Cuba reduced quality standards in tobacco to try and produce more of it, Cuban Cigars used to be considered particularly high value but not anymore which really hurts its value. Tourism suffered a similar fate due to Covid. Cuba's own reluctance to allow foreign capital is also hurting them. In order to diverify into other industries they need people with money to build the factories and infrastructure, but no one is gonna do that if the Cuban government is going to nationalize any profitable industry. People think foreign investment is bad because they assume its just exploitation and there surely would be to some degree but it is also what gets an economy started. The US actually became as wealthy as it has due to foreign investment in the early 19th century building factories and railroads when it was still the equivalent of a third world shit-hole.
my dad came from cuba in the 1980s during the mariel boat lift. He had been arrested as a teen in cuba for escaping the mandatory military service, "the military" just meant being used as a slave in the sugar cane fields, cutting sugar cane. He tells me people would hurt themselves to be allowed to leave, and he tried and failed to be by injecting his leg with petrol, he had to run instead but he was caught and then was given to opportunity to leave to the US during the mariel exodus. He was 16. After surviving the trip over here, he was homeless and ended up very involved with selling drugs in miami. Now hes dad to 3 gen z kids who he doesnt understand at all, lotsa trauma, cubans suffer a lot.
Happy that he managed to make it in normal life. In Europe many refugees does not have nothing. They do cheap labour in the south of Europe working in agriculture for 10-20$/€ day or go to the northern countries and had to sell drugs to survive and many get addicted and then life goes down
We go to Cuba every other Winter, Spanish was my first language. We take an extra suitcase with clothing and stuff to give to the Cubans, Wendy gave some stuff to a Local who remembered us 3 years later. Wendy works at the local School here in Canada and collects all the discarded school supplies, we give those to the Cubans, I bring Sports equipment for Baseball . I love watching the Cuban teams play, their fields are not manicured to pool table perfection, they are like playing on a Cow pasture, the ball can pitch and roll in any direction, but they are always on it. that is what makes them such good players. Although we are underweight in luggage on arrival, somehow after giving 50 pounds of stuff away, we are always overweight on departure, another $20 to the Cuban Govt.
As someone learning about political economics, does anyone have an example of a now communist country that transitioned from capitalism? Whenever I read about broken communist states, they always seem to have jumped right into communism through dictatorship/ revolution instead of transitioning from neoliberalism. From what I understand though, Marx argued that the struggle between social classes defines economic relations in a capitalist economy and will inevitably lead to revolutionary communism. Has this ever been the case? The closest examples I’ve been able to find are Scandinavian countries, though those are definitely not communist.
i'm pretty sure venezuela became socialist democratically, technically rusia was capitalist to a certain extent(i don't know much in this case but aparently it was pretty industrialized at that point and the government was technically a democratic government since the revolution of february), cuba was capitalist for sure before the revolution, i'm pretty sure most of latin-america had a capitalist system as for countries that didn't have dictators in power before the transition maybe in africa and the countries in eastern europe. Basically any country that became comunist due to the influence of the third world. That being said take what i said here with caution until you've researched it yourself
No, communism is total nonsense; it states that the "proletariat" are going to rise up and overthrow "the people on top with no accountability" and create a classless society... one that is enforced by the revolutionaries... who are basically on top with no accountability... which effectively makes it a society with at least two distinct classes... and then they wonder why their revolutionary leaders consistently become authoritarian dictators. Communism is an inherently broken ideology, all it achieves is swapping one set of corrupt leaders with another one, who're usually just as bad as the last guys if not worse. The "jumping right into communism through dictatorship/ revolution" is how Marx's ideas function in reality. The communist revolutionaries are the ones who're supposed to fight a perpetual war against "capitalists" and "reactionaries" and "counter-revolutionaries" and the "bourgeoisie" and there're no proposed limits to the revolutionaries' power or rules of conduct they're supposed to follow in that war, which means they can do practically anything they want. Moreover, these enemies of theirs are not specific groups of people, they're basically anyone who isn't a communist. Communism divides the entire world into communists and everyone else, then declares war on everyone else.
That's because communism doesn't really happen naturally, it's pretty much only enforced through war and dictatorships. I honestly only known of a couple examples where a communist party held significant amount of power through popular support and a fair election and that was just in a single state in India and even then it fluctuated. In every free election communists have at best been a fringe party, they know they can't gain power fairly so that's why they've universally been dictatorships and one of the first things they always do is destroying any other parties and enforcing strict, brutal rule after destroying any kind of democracy and its also why communist countries, regardless of how powerful their parties are, don't really do any multi party elections and even when they do (like North korea) the other parties are simple puppets with no power and aren't allowed to oppose with the communist party, only agree or stay silent. Neoliberalism can be bad, but can still work and even some of the worst examples of neoliberalism are still better than communism. One thing you'll notice if you look into communist government is a pattern ad they fall into 3 basic patterns: 1. The country pretty much collapses instantly and needs to be propped up by foreing support. 2. They succeed at first but stagnate quickly. This is because they're a rapine economy and survive by pillaging foreign assets and the wealth of their own people which they exhaust over time. 3. They chug along for awhile thanks to natural resources. This is how the USSR survived for so long and how they supported most of the communist world. They had VAST amounts of oil and gas as well ad many minerals, some of the largest deposits in the world. They're basically like the Gulf states except they use their resource wealth to prop up their other failing industries. It's why the USSR economy took a nose dive every time oil and gas prices dropped or even dipped.
=DUDE,THE EXAMPLE IS RIGHT HERE,IN DEMOCRATIC STATES,AND EUROPE AS WEL =THERE ALMOST COMMUNISM ALREADY BY THE WHOLE STRUCTURE IS THE SAME,BECAUSE OF PEOPLE ARE BEING TAKEN AWAY OF ANY RIGHTS,TURNED INTO CATTLE,AND ONLY LEFT IS TO MAKE EVERYTHING GOVERNMENT OWNED
My father's first name was "Tony". He came to Miami in the 80's during the boat lift. He had it tough at first...working as a dish washer. But then he got an opportunity to work in pharmaceuticals. Everything went well until one fateful night he was murdered by Colombian thugs. I'll never forget him.
@@barrybritcher All I know is that the same night that my father was killed by Colombians his best friend Manny was shot to death by persons unknown. Manny's wife was my father's sister. She was also murdered and her body was found in the same house where my father was murdered. I blame all of this on Donald Trump since Donald Trump, according to Biden and Pelosi, is responsible for all the evil in the world.
Interesting/informative/entertaining. Excellent still-motion photography pictures/drawings/maps. Enabling viewers to better understand what the orator is describing.
So much for objectivity or even-handedness. In other words, let's shove all blame on Cuban economic policies and next to nothing on the economic war that has been waged on Cuba since 1962. A trade embargo, sanctions, restrictions to finance and credit, and even deliberate efforts to undermine international trade via the Helms-Burton Act and Cuban Democracy Act. The trade embargo alone has cost Cuba over $130B. Let's also not ignore how the Cuban Adjustment Act not only contributes to brain drain but outright incentivizes thousands of Cubans to risk their lives to improve their economic situation - a dangling carrot extended to no other country. Cuba's poverty is absolutely by design. As Nixon once said regarding Allende's Chile, "make the economy scream". And so it has since 91, very much so due to cruel US policy that only exists to pander to the exilio lobby as well as the Cuban vote in a swing state, made all the more malevolent by a Trump administration at the advisement of Otto Reich, which rolled back all of the progress made due to Obama's normalization right in the middle of a pandemic.
Cuba trades with: Venezuela, China, Spain, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, and the Netherlands, etc. The U.S. does not control the Worlds economy!!! Remittances to Cuba from Cuban immigrants in the U.S. are about 3 Billion dollars yearly "Officially". That's about a quarter of Cuba’s gross national income! The Cuban government "Fidel", not only stole "seized" property and businesses from the U.S. and foreign nationals, but also from middle class Cuban citizens..! How would you like ANY government "seizing" your house or your family's small business? All that B.S., while government officials live in mansions, drive European cars and live the luxurious lives of the very ELITE, which they so vehemently criticized!!! Yeah, the U.S. and of its sanctions really hurt Fidel and all his cohorts and the luxurious lives they live at the expense of the common Cuban people..! Stop spreading lies and misinformation PLEASE..!
@@gregrodriguez714 Firstly, nuance is possible. One does not have to be an EXTREME supporter of either side to recognize a wrong. Yes, Cuba, on paper, is free to trade with the outside world and as much as she can attempt to. That said, her options are very limited because of the Helms-Burton Act and Cuban Democracy Act, both which penalize nationals of 3rd countries from trading with Cuba - penalties which could result in asset seizures and denied access to US ports and markets. As a result, most exporters will chose to sideline Cuba for fear of losing access to the US market. As a result Cuba losses billions a year in potential trade. Very few will forfeit that access. Same is true for Cuba attempting to access finance from 3rd parties. Sorry to break it to you but the US does dominate most of the world’s economy - trade, finance, foreign investment, capital… you name it. The dollar is the world’s most sought after reserve currency. The US dominates the world’s politics as well. 40% of the OAS’s operating budget is paid by the US. US pays a third of the UN budget and buys votes with USAID and IMF/WB development loans. The US is the world’s hegemon. Why un americanista would deny this, I have no idea. US products in Cuba? Of course. They have to buy said products from 3rd party countries and pay in dollars (not Cuban pesos) - hence dollar stores. Remittances? The same one's Trump limited along with flights? And why are you bringing up remittances as some sort of oddity? Name me a developing country that does not receive remittances from their emigrants. Want to discuss them? Sure. The exilio credits itself with providing $3B worth per year. How far do you think that goes? Divide $3B among the 11 million Cubans on the island. That comes up to $265 per Cuban annually, or $22 a month. Inequality? Really? Compared to the US where a third of the country’s total wealth is in the hands of just 1% of the population? And oh, yes, the sanctity of US property seized. Educate yourself on how US carpetbaggers came and basically bought most of Cuba’s arable land from under Cuban’s feet for pennies on the dollar after 1898, and how US banks did this again in 1919, indebting small Cuban sugar growers with easy money only to come back and foreclose on their cane fields - adding to the already great share of Cuban real estate in US hands, or how the criminal government of Batista further enriched his cronies and his organized-crime business partners at the expense of the Cuban people. Yes, yes, all that real estate was nothing but legitimate. Absolutely the government in place since 59 has made a great deal of mistakes, some deliberate, some out of bad circumstances, some out of stupidity, but to push 100% of the blame on them. Spare me that extremist one-sided nonsense. No seas tan arrastrado y reaccionario, y aprenda a pensar un poco mas por ti mismo.
@@Pituqat What about Cuban property seized? Even small Cuban businesses where seized..! or how the criminal government of "Fidel" enriched his cronies and his communist partners at the expense of the Cuban people. None of the sanctions seem to have affected the lives of Fidel and his family or cronies..? They live in extreme luxury, have luxurious mansions, cars and even yachts... The same Capitalist inequalities they once condemned... Now they enjoy to the fullest, while prohibiting the rest of the population "Everything" ..! One sided? Get real buddy... Cubas government is "CORRUPT"..! Don't blame the U.S.
there is no objectivity in this really terrible video -- it is simply standard anti-revolutionary propaganda from a US perspective. It can not focus in on the embargo as it would lend credence to Cuba's claims. And why nothing about the hundreds of acts of terrorism against aCuba civilians? because it does not serve the ridiculous narrative of this mis-informed piece of trash. .
I watched this movie, unfortunately the speaker wasn't an impartial person about the whole facts in Cuba. The maker of this movie didn't mention the causes or roots of poverty and inflation in Cuba. One of the major things that he did hide was the American economic sanction on Cuba. He didn't mention about the CIA interference and many other indirect & direct problems that US has had caused on this island....
I lived in Cuba as a young man from Jamaica. It was the best time it's history, music, people and natural beauty is best in the Caribbean. Look at Haiti today poverty and HIV highest in the Americas. Other Caribbean islands drug cartels and violence not in Cuba. Cuba need investors and US tourist like the old days. Viva Cuba.
There is one really important thing you should mention about the American embargo! The embargo allows private Cuban citizens to negotiate with the USA as long as the Cuban government is not involved in the negotiations; however, the Cuban government has never allowed the citizens to take advantage of that! Therefore, we can cry USA bad, but who is not allowing Cuban private citizen to have private enterprise and negotiate with USA investors?
Not really, but maybe I don’t see that because I lived in Miami for a while, but Cubans love the US there, and I was treated really well in Cuba when I went.
The Cubans took the Chicago mafia out of the island, the 2 oil companies present on the island agreed to refine Russian oil but the USA intervened to prevent this from happening, it was after this that Cuba nationalized the 2 oil companies. To throw Cuba into the arms of the USSR and then complain. The real horror is that the USA has been hounding Cuba for 60 years. If arrangements had been made, it would have been a long time since we would have moved on.
Aligning with the USSR was a catastrophic mistake for Cuba. Economic isolation is almost always leads to subsistence, and more so as technology becomes more complex.
Cuba aligned with the US even when it intervened in its democracy to become a dictatorship. But when Batista started murdering people another dictator took his place with communist characteristics. Cuba would not have been went the path it went had the US valued another countries democracy over its own interests.
@@k.l3062 Perhaps... ironically, America supported Che Guevara, but he performed a theatrical 180 flip to the communist sphere once he gained power. We may never know the truth. Che and his Soviet supporters are long dead... Was he always a staunch Soviet, or was America simply outbid diplomatically, as the Soviets saw Cuba as leverage in bringing America to the table?
The Cuban government is the problem. One of the many examples of a dysfunctional government: They are surrounded by water but have a severe shortage to nothing of fish to eat.
On my visit to cuba a few years ago from trinidad...i was told no fishing / vessls were allowed in cuban water,( gorgeous blue carrubean waters) as a secuirty measure,( cia hunreds of attemlts to kill castro) Mainly havanna. Caricom( caribbean regional body) has repeatedly called fpr liftjng oppressive usa sanctions on cuba.. We in region have benefitted from.world class cuban drs and h nurses and thier herbal pharmacplogy appoarch ti medjcine And havjng gp do home visits..wow So medjcal care free for life .no crime no usa based drugs/ guns war as in miani abd usa and 23:05 all other carubbean usa alignged countries. Certainly fdi in tourism puts thw visitor in different view of cuba as it looks very soanish miaimi beach withour all us frabxhies .its very green country not poluured as sanctions msant limited vehicle grpwth so roads and countey with non polluted (traffic free) Of course it would be great to get its trainline modeynised And its eco tourism ans healtj sector tourism support by fdi. And of course who woukd not enjoy cyban ciffe literally farm to table as most foods.. In lical home stays The grass always appear greener. Bur usa poverty vahrabcy drugs hate crime. ..which immigrants discover on arrival in usa Is better to be socialt poor( housinh heakth basuc food provided) or capitalist usa poor abd suffering as taxes increase wealthy gey rich while govt impiverish middle class Perspectives i guess But with alittle brics new development bank lians cuba can become tbw true caribbean paradise. And sanction out usa has done it hood as it has survided inn9vatively withour drugs crime greed. Hda exported as capitalism( baptista) Geopolitics of west undermines good governance of glibal sourh So let support brics. And glibal sourh abd elimjnate toxic usa hegemony ... 🎉
Because of Batista's resentment for his coup d'état, Cubans renounced their accelerated economic advancement and modernity achieved in just seven years, to live a long communist nightmare without freedom and in increasing misery for almost seven decades.
@@derekwest4245 read some marx before you judge communism. You haven't got a clue what communism actually is if you really think capitalism with its genocidal tendencies and exploitative nature which killed hundreds of millions of people in just the last decade is so good and successful (spoiler alert, capitalism only succeeds in the countries that are the exploiters while the exploited capitalist countries that are forced to be capitalist by the exploiters are living in unimaginably horrible conditions and being enslaved and have their country's industry, natural resources and materials privately owned by overseas corporations in those exploiter nations such as the usa and most countries in europe) F capitalism, communism is the way forward.
@@Sednas said the Marxist… Look around the world. Which countries are people immigrating to and which countries are people leaving. That will tell you which ideology is better for the people.
So I'm an actual cuban living in Cuba. I'm curious if you actually interviewed actual mainland cubans or researched into cuban-US History. There is a ton of important information you left out, and truthfully a lot of what you portray in the video is highly inaccurate, especially around the revolutionary period. I'm sorry I usually enjoy your videos, but as an actual cuban I feel a bit disappointed in this one.
@@jasonhaven7170 He also didn't touch on any of Operation Northwoods or Operation Mongoose in general. Nor Memorandum 499 in Cuba state relations. Hell he didn't even touch on any of the massive constitutional reform in 2019 or the upcoming elections in 2023. This is just another Cuba video seen through the same cold war lens it has been viewed with for the past six decades.
@@animeloco13 The video focuses on the reasons for Cuba's misery. There might be miissing informatinon but there's almost nothing inaccurate. As a Cuban I actually enjoyed it. There's nothing massive about the constitutional reform just more totalitarism. I'm not counting on any surprises on the oncoming elections but feel free to enlight me if I'm wrong. Still both events have nothing to do with the video.
@@animeloco13 The communist party is above the constitution and is the only one that can rule while other parties are banned. There's no rule of law or sepration of powers. There's no freedom of press, speech or assembly. What is Cuba according to you if it's not a totalitarian dictatorship?
The 1940 Constitution gave a great boost to the development of Cuba, as it brought political stability to the country and put Cuba on the path of economic growth. Grau and Prío began that Cuban economic development that was spreading to the provinces as well, and later with Batista it became more accelerated, since under the coup Batista many of the great construction works were carried out in Havana, which gave it enormous modernity, and it caused a rapid growth of the middle classes in the country that began to disappear from 1959 with the violent seizure of power by the later tyrant Fidel Castro and Cuba being dragged towards communism, then beginning the favelization of Cuba and the conversion of all Cubans in an increasingly miserable town, in addition to the physical and social destruction of Cuba. The Cuban people need to rediscover the Constitution of 1940, which from 1952 under Batista and from 1959 under Castro, was trampled on, because its democratic postulates and respect for freedoms made it annoying for its dictatorial powers.
I’m Cuban and truth is. Cuba never had good presidents, the only good ones I remember was one who became president of the republic of arms (founded by Manuel Céspedes when he freed his slaves gave a speech to 500 people and incited the Cuban independence movement) even Mario Garcia Cubas third president is highly respected but in the same time hated because almost all of Cubas president have history with corruption. Even though they did good things and Mario even is honored for being a great Cuban leader during WW2 or 1 I believe. But in my opinion those men were never destined to be Cubas leaders. Jose marti and Manuel Céspedes and Antonio maceo were hell even maximo Gomez. But one day cuba will have the leader that it’s supposed to have and cuba will sit in the throne of the Caribbean like we did during our glory days
@@Stoicsaiyan The purpose of a "president" (head of state) and a ruler is to bring development to the nation but above all, to UNITE the people as much as possible and establish and respect the FREEDOMS of the people, something that the Castro tyranny did. On the contrary, it pulverized the Cuban nation and divided Cubans like never before. Never before 1959 were so many Cubans looking for a way to leave Cuba. The tyrant Fidel Castro enthroned HATE among Cubans, even within families. That is why the Castro tyranny is condemned to disappear, despite the hope that it initially brought to the people but that the tyrant Castro betrayed by lying to the people.
Hello guys dont forget that Venezuela is the best kept secret of the Caribbean region. In fact about 2,500-3,000 years ago, farmers and potters related to the Arawak-speakers of northeast of actual Venezuela established a pathway into the Caribbean. Using the delta fingers of Orinoco River Basin like highways, they travelled from the interior to coastal Venezuela and pushed north into the Antilles islands of the Caribbean Sea, settling Puerto Rico and eventually moving westward. Their arrival ushered in the region’s Ceramic Age, marked by agriculture and the widespread production and use of pottery. Over time, nearly all genetic traces of Archaic Age people vanished, except for a holdout community in western Cuba that persisted as late as European arrival. Intermarriage between the two groups was rare, with only three individuals in the study showing mixed ancestry. Many present-day Cubans, Dominicans and Puerto Ricans are the descendants of ancient people from Venezuela , as well as European immigrants and enslaved Africans. But researchers noted only marginal evidence of Archaic Age ancestry in modern individuals. And even today, with economic crisis happening in Venezuela, the Antilles is seeing an influx of alot of South Americans (mainly Venezuelans) on the lewaard islands. In a couple years, if this trend continues, the whole demographic landscape of the islands can change again.
China made in 50 years, without one bullet fired, what took the west 500 years of looting continents an killing millions. So, there are different ways to reach the wealth, and some of those poor nations are aware of them obviously more than yourself. The difference is in ethical structure. Somebody is not a thief for moral reasons, and other because of lack of opportunity.
“The Economic Blockade that United States imposed on Cuba, and which has been uninterrupted for more than 60 years, is product of the revenge of Dulles brothers against Fidel Castro, as a result of Castro expropriating the United Fruit Company (UFCO), more than 50,000 hectares of cultivation (Sugar Cane). Allen Dulles (CIA Director), and his brother John Foster Dulles (US Secretary of State), were a shareholder in UFCO, and were on the payroll for more than 20 years. Both Bros. demanded payment from Cuban Gov’t for the land expropriated at ridiculously high amount, when United Fruit Co. had obtained these large estates for $7 dollars per hectare and demanded compensation for $4,800 dollars per hectare. Castro was also asked to pay the cost of hotels, houses and casinos owned by the New York Mafia and other figures of high politics in the US. As Cuba does not pay, the Economic Blockade continues. “If we can't assassinate Castro, let's assassinate his economy”. Now, 12 Presidents have passed in the White House, and the Blockade continues. Castro, Dulles Bros., Meyer Lansky, “Lucky” Luciano, Frank Costello, Kennedy, LBJ and all that generation have already died; they are no longer here. And the Economic Blockade continues. Why? Why, if Castro NEVER affected the interests of the US people? Castro affected the interests of the New York Mafia, the UFCO and the interests of the Dulles Brothers. The Castro Gov't affected the interests some companies (6 companies), that conspired to assassinate him, but not affected the USA People. (It would be an example to say that Mexico imposed an Economic Block on the US, cuz the US Gov’t confiscated properties from “El Chapo”, or from the Mexican Drug Trafficking Cartels). Castro never seized property from US citizens. Castro only seized the property of the New York Mafia. So, why? If perhaps the reason for the Blockade was cuz Fidel Castro was an ally of USSR, well, USSR has not existed for more than 30 years either. Then why? What is the reason for continuing with this Economic Blockade against Cuba? The answer to these questions, in any case, would be: "Cuz a dark power within the US wants to impose itself in Cuba, violating its sovereignty, in the same way that it has done and continues to do so throughout the world with the weakest nations". No common citizen of the US has anything against the Cuban people, but a certain sector of the Government's High Politics does…” Now, If you want to know about the atrocities and massacres of the UFCO and the CIA in Chile, Venezuela, Peru, Colombia, Cuba, all the Caribbean and Central America, consult Wikipedia: “Wars of the Banana Republics”. (From Stephen Kinzer book: “The Brothers”). Write the latter that appears in parentheses, and verify this information right here on RUclips. Or, do the same and search for it on Google. In History Channel: ruclips.net/video/Mu5pWe8cQSo/видео.html “Batista y la Mafia en Cuba”.
@@salvadorvizcarra769 False dichotomy, it was the United States government & the CIA who placed Castro & Communism to rule over Cuba. And the CIA is controlled by the UK’s MI6. The British Royals have been playing you since the Spanish-American Revolution against Spain.
I will dare to say that this is probably the most accurate summary video on Cuba´s situation. Even if you used stock videos that are not from Cuba, it still has my approval. I am Cuban, born and raised, with 24 years of experience living in that sh!th0le. 👌
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Or More likely then a false flag there was a smoldering fire in a coal bin igniting the the explosion. Your supposedly likely scenario is way down on the list and not very likely
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My new wife sold everything and borrowed money to immigrate my to the USA 5-years ago on a F-1 student visa to escape the violence of Brazil where she worked as an ER nurse for 24-years. Her now ex husband abandoned her and their 13- year old daughter after 11-months. She kept her visa valid, managed to survive financially for 5-years, the daughter got straight A’s and just enrolled in college. Self taught herself English and Spanish with no accent. It’s taken 1 1/2 years and a lot of money to obtain the required documentation but soon my wife will be working as a RN with aspirations of becoming a nurse practitioner. Her accent is heavy but we constantly practice correct pronunciation of English words, idioms and phrases. Liz loves the USA and me. I love her dearly and look forward to each and every day with her. ❤
The video you used for the 2:11 - 2:12 fragment of your upload is from the city of La Antigua Guatemala in Guatemala. This city is not located in Cuba, rather its in Central America, although we have some shared history with Cuba with el Che guevara living here before the Fidel led cuban revolution
10:50 From what I've read, the Bay of Pigs invasion would have succeeded except for one Admiral who committed treason when he refused to support the troops who had landed.
The President and the Pentagon ordered him to invade and he refused, instead allowing the marine who had landed to be slaughtered or captured.
We Filipinos learn a glimpse of Cuba in our grade school History class, because our country became a colony of Spain. The Cuban War of Independence 1895-1898 inspired the Philippine revolution against Spain.
Hence, the design of flag our 🇵🇭 was also inspired by Cuba 🇨🇺.
un grande abrazo hermanos desde las islas Filipinas.
I’m Filipino, just learned about flag origin from you, so interesting, Salamat for education
Very interesting
@@jerseycatmews828 Cuba was also mentioned in my college years on Rizal subject.
Dr. Rizal requested to leave Dapitan and travel to Cuba as a doctor in the Spanish military. In order to study the successes Cuban revolution.
There is a province in Cuba called Pinar del Rio. It used to be called Nuevas Filipinas because laborers from The Philippines went there to work in the tobacco fields.
@@TheGeoScholar i was born there. thats awesome info
I have travelled to Cuba on a number of occasions for work. A Cuban once told me the joke, "What do you call a Cuban orchestra when they return from a foreign tour? A quartet."
I don't get it
@@juanteran7003 Hi, Juan. The point was that it was often the case that Cuban choirs, orchestras, ballet companies etc. that went on foreign tours (especially to the free west) would experience defections and return with fewer members.
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@@brianirwin5296 that's also why there are tons of Cuban sports stars, especially in baseball and boxing, but there aren't nearly as many sports stars _in_ Cuba. I've heard that in Cuban boxing they have a huge issue with boxers basically escaping the first chance they get because they can literally make 100x the money in the US and be free of 99% of the government oversight.
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I visited Cuba in summer of 2022. Beautiful country with amazing hospitable people but you could just tell there was a significant degree of desperation going on. At times i felt bad being a tourist vacationing while the locals were struggling to get by. Lots of shortages everywhere
So it was like a visit to Detroit? Jamaica? Moscow?
Yet they keep breeding like flies to add to their dire straits...Don't worry America has open southern borders and the Democrats will let in another 50 million refugees before you can say cat in the hat. COME ONE COME ALL, NOW THAT WE ARE THE WORD'S NUMBER ONE IMMIGRATION DUMPING GROUND.
Please don't forget the fact that the large reason for the desperation is because of US sanctions on Cuba. Since 1959.
Gave your money to an evil regime, nice. That money is gonna go back to them
@@zsmith4853 excuse me? The reason Cuba is in shambles is communism dummy. We don’t play with evil regimes like in Cuba, Iran, anywhere. Not sure if you’re really dumb or trolling. One nation boycotting Cuba isn’t the reason its bad. It has plenty of other nations they could trade with. One single country not trading with them isn’t keeping them in shambles. It’s communism idiot
Thank you 💛 for this. I grew up with a girl from Cuba. Her parents brought her to Miami Beach Florida and they escaped from Cuba approximately in 1955-1960. I loved them. Cookie was my best friend. Learned some Spanish too. Cubans are a wonderful people. Beautiful country and culture.
My father was a doctor in Cuba, he escaped on a boat and was caught by the coast guard about halfway to Florida. They brought them back to Guantanamo bay where a lot of them returned to their lives. However my father got the opportunity to work as a doctor in Guantanamo for a few months. They helped him become a resident of the United States, secured him the ability to come to the nation legally, and provided him with a healthy wage. In Miami, my father was homeless; for a while sleeping in churches whenever he could and working wherever would accept him. Until a friendly man named Victor found him one day on a Sunday morning and gave him a place to stay. He was also a Cuban migrant but one that came here very long ago, he was quite good at English. Victor provided my father with a stable home and helped him get enrolled in school to get recertified as a doctor. Victor passed away about 10 years ago, but my family will never forget the kind man that he was.
Today you can find hundreds of people just like my father, most of them work very traditional jobs here in America. I worked at my father's office and there was an employee who specialized in neurosurgery, yet she works as an office technician now. The situation in Cuba is very interesting, because though their economy is a shadow of it's former self their education has managed to stay relatively top-notch. They have a lot of very skilled workers in their market who work for an extremely unreasonable price.
Goes to America and becomes homeless. Sums up the American dream.
@@MegaAvinator and his success after that. That doesn't sums up American dream? Ignorant
My Grandparents on my father's side were university professors in Santiago, they fled to Puerto Rico after the revolution with nothing but the clothes on their backs. The governor at the time, Luis Munoz Marin welcomed the Cuban diaspora and hired many of them as professors at the University of Puerto Rico as many were well educated. Also many became successful businessmen. ✌️
@@quincyquincy4764 yes...during the 50s the US was torturing Islamists in Guantanamo ..🤦
@@pupysb6267 I never said Islamist. It's possible your government tortured others
An excellent book describing life pre and post revolution Cuba written by a Cuban exile is " Waiting for Snow in Havana". Makes you understand everything you see and the Cuban mentality when you visit Cuba.
Apparently Cuba's private motorized transport is still made up of 1950s and 1960s cars made in the US. While this is a testimony of the mechanical skiils of the Cuban mechanics in keeping these antique cars running, this apparently iconic nature of Cuban streets is a real indicator of the isolation of Cuba's island economy for 60 years.
It's not isolation, the communist gov't has done business with very developed nation (outside of the US, and not entirely true since the Embargo is BS). The problem is there has never been a prosperous communist gov't, its foundations were not created by an economist, but by an alcoholic social scientist. I wonder how Cuba would be if the revolution hadn't happened. Most likely, akin to Switzerland and the other small rich European countries
I'm amazed that Cuba doesn't have more modern cars made by companies in countries other than the U.S.
Also a testament to the fact that cars used to be manufactured to far higher standards of quality
@@unnaturalselection8330 That is true. Detroit was the richest city in US and deserving of it. Those cars are built like tanks and simple to repair. Today, we built cars like portable phones (actually phone companies are building concept cars). My old man was a mechanic/engineer(patents), and he used to say the more shit (conveniences) you put in a car, the less reliable it will be. Tesla can keep its truck, if I could ever find a jeep from that era, they will bury my ass in it.
@Pete-107 the sanctions are absolutely the biggest factor in them being so poor. "Communism" isn't even their economical structure, it hasn't been any countries actual economy. There are social communists, but their economy is socialism.
As a Cuban I can tell you this is a pretty accurate summary.
Cuba also has a Catholicism Factor (all Catholic countries are corrupt because of infallible Patriarchal culture). This never gets mentioned just like the 2011 European PIIGS (Portugal, Italy,Ireland, Greece, and Spain,) economic disaster.
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As a Cuban immigrant now living in the US I truly enjoyed this video. It would be awesome to see a more in depth documentary on this topic.
Another Gusano. i bet you voted for Trump.
@@lawbringer9857 another claria who doesn't know shit about my country
@@lawbringer9857 You do realize how racist you sound saying that only Hispanics can vote Democrat, right?
@@PeruvianPotato Only a weasley little Gusano would vote for a racist party like the republicans.
@@lawbringer9857 "racist party" Can already tell you're under 16 and you're projecting your insecurities. Good to know
You criminally forget the 1933 Revolution, Batista's first dictatorship then elected presidency, and the Autentico's dismal fall.
=COUP WAS SUPPORTED BY THE US,ISNT THAT........AT LEAST APPROVED.....AND SO ON AND SO ON
=BUT......IN FACT,CUBA MUST'VE BEEN GIVEN A STATUS SAME OF PUERTO RICO.......AND OUTRIGHT US CITIZENSHIP AND TURNING CUBA INTO A STATE.......BECAUSE OF IT'S ONLY WAY TO GO ON HAWAII'S WAY OF PROSPERITY
...Tell me you didn't watch until the 7:30 min mark without telling me you didn't watch the video.
@@guru47pi it’s more complicated than just Fulgencio Batista taking power. It should have been explained in the video he was explicitly backed by the US because he matched their interests. It shouldn’t just be said in passing conversation. That aspect is very important and another reason why Castro was able to take power because it fueled even more anger towards the US.
@@kendellfriend5558 I continue to refer you to my original comment: actually watch the fucking video.
Batista was like Cuba’s poor version of Mulato Barack Hussein Obama, the rich Whites Elites like Fidel Castro took him out.
This is an outstanding video. The actions over many years of numerous politicians from Cuba, Russia and USA have been corrupt and deplorable. Of course, the bull-headed arrogance of those politicians would prevent an ounce of introspection.
Thank you for this video, I’m a 1st generation Cuban immigrant and my father has told me about the politics, livelihood and poverty in Cuba. I never heard much about the economy but what I did hear from him was most of the money most citizens made was through farming, selling meat and baked goods. My father grew up in the countryside and his family owned/ worked in SEVERAL farms and still struggled in poverty due to high taxation and unstable market. The last time I visited a box of cereal was $20. He was around during the height of Castro’s power and one thing I wish was emphasized was how little he cared for his people, even economically. There was virtually no middle class, money from every establishment and almost every trade went to politicians, not the rich, poor, education, infrastructure, or law enforcement. Only the politicians.
ever heard of the embargo? Thats the reason for such poverty..
Socialist countries like Cuba don't believe in a middle class.
@@DESERTH4WK the embargo only sanctions politicians, normal cuban citizens dont have any international restrictions whatsoever, its the government who wont allow us into any economic activity, just selling guavas from your own backyard tree is "ilegal enrichment" and punished by years in prision. In the last few years they've opened up the economy a bit, allowing for private enterprises below 50 workers, and was the only way some food was produced in/imported to the island, even many state enterprises administrators had to find some "ilegal" workaround trough some of this micro enterprises to import goods, because the government wont lend them anything but cuban pesos, which are of course useless on international markets. Me myself, trough one of this micro enterprises, was the one who buyed stuff for the havana university, who doesnt have the money to buy outside the country, but not because of any "embargo" bs, just because the politicians wont give them the money to do so, because if they did lend them us dollars they could buy stuff from where ever in the world they wanted.
gusano spotted opinion rejected.
@@asistom the embargo does NOT just sanction politicians, who the fuck told you that outrageous lie?
The explosion of the Maine wasn’t a false flag operation. The ship most likely suffered a magazine explosion, something that was not-unheard of in the era. The chemistry of propellants in that era was not fully understood and some of them were not completely stable in the long term, especially when exposed to long periods of high temperature.
Well it wasn’t Spain’s doing and it also happened to be extremely f****g convenient for the Yankees
@@fusionreactor7179 No, it really wasn’t convenient. It was actually really inconvenient. The US Navy in the 1890s was not anything like the modern one. It was very small and chronically underfunded. The USS Maine was one of only 5 battleships that it had. Losing the Maine represented a significant reduction in the navy’s combat power and a loss of valuable and expensive piece of military hardware.
And perhaps most notably, blowing it up would have been completely unnecessary if Congress wanted to go to war to colonize Cuba. The yellow press had already whipped up plenty of anti-Spanish sentiment. The country wouldn’t have *needed* to blow up one of its own warships and kill its own sailors as an excuse. The idea that the Maine was a false flag is patently ridiculous.
Why did William Randolph Hearst send his reporters there immediately before the Maine explosion?
@@rartu Because he had spent years trying to whip up war with Spain. His reporters were there when war happened, because they had been active against Spain for a long time.
@@michaelimbesi2314 The USS Maine wasn't a false flag because it likely exploded accidentally. However, I'm 95% sure that the US rushed to blame Spain in order to expand their territory and navel power
If Cuba were left to thrive on it own then Miami would definitely not have been anywhere near as big as it is today.
=NOPE......IN ORDER OF DOING THAT,CUBA MUST'VE BEEN GIVEN A STATEHOOD,LIKE HAWAII
.........RADICAL??--YES.......BUT ONLY STATEHOOD AND CITIZENSHIP OF ALL IT'S LOCALS WAS THE REAL CAUSE OF HAWAII TO THRIVE........BECAUSE OF THAT'S HOW THINGS WORK.....AND WOULD VE BEEN WORKING FOR CUBA
It still would've expanded just wouldn't be speaking Spanish
@@robotnikkkk001 native Hawaiians would disagree
@Master Robotnik Ststehood only works if there's a land connection to the mainland because of the Marine Merchant Act. Otherwise, statehood or any form of colonial and/or territorial status with the USA would only increase the cost of living, as seen in Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Alaska and other US territories.
Cocaine built Miami in the 80s.
Very educational video. Thank you. Just wanted to point out that many of the clips showing "the people of cuba" are in fact clips from Guatemala, not Cuba. I understand the creator of the video needed filler clips to create the full video and that's fine, but just wanted to point out to those who don't know that most of the closeups of people shown are in fact not Cubans.
I caught that too. If you know Latin America, you can easily pick out the visual incongruencies. The landscape, the people, etc.
@@chacmool2581 yeah I mean, I'm actually Cuban. I could tell from a mile away those weren't Cubans from the way the dressed and the way they looked. Then I looked more closely and a street sign gave it away as being Guatemala
I came here to do this exact comment, as a Cuban is very easy to tell the people in the video are not Cubans.
Very very well broucher of Cuba history
@@juliomiranda7013 No soy cubano. Aún así es obvio que no es Cuba ni cubanos. 😉
I did a trip to Cuba over the year change from 2018 into 2019 and this trip honestly changed my life! It made me so much more humbled. I booked a tour with a cuban company because i didnt want to support foreign companys and we got lucky that no one else booked out date so we had a tourguide for ourself, the changed the travel style a bit we hadnt a big bus but mostly taxis or private people the tourguide knew who drove us from a to b! We flew with a very old Antonov from a small national airport outside Havanna to the east coast and drove back...got to meet the family of the tourguide, stayed at small Casa paticulares got nice but small breakfast here all very much like we were part of their family for a day or two. Geting to know them and their life the good but also a lot of bad sides, the smile on peoples face when we got them food (basic stuff where kids in germany are mad if they dont get strawberry jogurt, they were just happy to get 1 cup jogurt the kind that was in stores this week) and it made me sad to see how much food we waste in western world and see people there starv or wait for hours to buy a bread...
Do you mind sharing the name of the company you booked this tour with? Thanks!
“The Economic Blockade that United States imposed on Cuba, and which has been uninterrupted for more than 60 years, is product of the revenge of Dulles brothers against Fidel Castro, as a result of Castro expropriating the United Fruit Company (UFCO), more than 50,000 hectares of cultivation (Sugar Cane). Allen Dulles (CIA Director), and his brother John Foster Dulles (US Secretary of State), were a shareholder in UFCO, and were on the payroll for more than 20 years. Both Bros. demanded payment from Cuban Gov’t for the land expropriated at ridiculously high amount, when United Fruit Co. had obtained these large estates for $7 dollars per hectare and demanded compensation for $4,800 dollars per hectare. Castro was also asked to pay the cost of hotels, houses and casinos owned by the New York Mafia and other figures of high politics in the US. As Cuba does not pay, the Economic Blockade continues. “If we can't assassinate Castro, let's assassinate his economy”. Now, 12 Presidents have passed in the White House, and the Blockade continues. Castro, Dulles Bros., Meyer Lansky, Kennedy, LBJ and all that generation have already died; they are no longer here. And the Economic Blockade continues. Why? Why, if Castro NEVER affected the interests of the US people? Castro affected the interests of the New York Mafia, the UFCO and the interests of the Dulles Brothers. The Castro Gov't affected the interests some companies (6 companies), that conspired to assassinate him, but not affected the US People. (It would be an example to say that Mexico imposed an Economic Block on the US, cuz the US Gov’t confiscated properties from “El Chapo”, or from the Mexican Drug Trafficking Cartels). Castro never seized property from US citizens. Castro only seized the property of the New York Mafia. So, why? If perhaps the reason for the Blockade was cuz Fidel Castro was an ally of USSR, well, USSR has not existed for more than 30 years either. Then why? What is the reason for continuing with this Economic Blockade against Cuba? The answer to these questions, in any case, would be: "Cuz a dark power within the US wants to impose itself in Cuba, violating its sovereignty, in the same way that it has done and continues to do so throughout the world with the weakest nations". No common citizen of the US has anything against the Cuban people, but a certain sector of the Government's High Politics does…” Now, If you want to know about the atrocities and massacres of the UFCO and the CIA in Chile, Venezuela, Peru, Colombia, Cuba, all the Caribbean and Central America, consult Wikipedia: “Wars of the Banana Republics”. (From Stephen Kinzer book: “The Brothers”). Write the latter that appears in parentheses, and verify this information right here on RUclips. Or, do the same and search for it on Google. In History Channel: ruclips.net/video/Mu5pWe8cQSo/видео.html “Batista y la Mafia en Cuba”. .
Fidel Castro was much worse than General Batista and the Mafia who was there. He allowed no private property and businesses whatsoever. Everything was the property of the State. I pray for the fall of Communist Cuba despite it being the birthplace of my and my late parents.
Well, there’s yet another “life-changing” journey story from a western princess, who apparently needed to witness extreme poverty elsewhere to feel humbled 😂. Seriously though, wtf did you think was going on before that trip?
@@gannswan2898 🙄🙄🙄🙄
You missed 19 years of democracy 1933-1952, 26 years of economic prosperity 1933-1959, the political repression and the different exodus after 1959.
You know Cuba was a brutal and oppressive US backed military dictatorship till the revolution in 1959 right? And only the elite class of cuba profited from the "economic prosperity". Cuba is today more democratic than it ever was up until the revolution.
You're right, but I don't consider the video as carbage.
Well those periods were not exactly democratic.
The presidents ftom the 30s and 40s had to conply with America's wishes asas was set up in the Platt Amendment. Furthermore, the presidents of that time did not last long and were replaced one after another by the army who called the shots
The economy was prosperous in that time only because it was the american corporations who benefited from the income.
Ah yes batista who was an absolute asshole just like castro
@@cgt3704 Pre-communist Cuba had the highest middle-class per capita in Latin America. And although USA was an interventionist shadow, as in pest, since its "independence", Cuba was never a plantation society such Jamaica or Haiti. Neither was Dominican Republic for that matter... Truth be told, capitalist Cuba had unions and a strong civic society regardless of who was president.
About the same scenario happened in my country called the Philippines. It was a decent paradise until some things like insurgency, economic restrictions called the 60/40 FDI rule, corruption, and excessive bureaucracy came to reality. All of these issues are the root causes of their outdated system that was supposed to change every 19 years or so.
Lol stop your propaganda, Marcos regime makes the country worst, their corrupt dynasty ruined everything, good thing PH now escaped from that brink of collapse. Stop blaiming the 60/40 system, blame the corrupt politicians and their corrupt system!
The Philippines should have remained as a Spanish Australia or New Zealand, gaining peaceful independence around the 70s and 90s
Almost any system that only changes every 19 years or so is probably going to become corrupt and outdated. Must be incredibly frustrating, at best, to watch things be mismanaged in your own country….so sorry to hear that.
Unfortunately Filipino culture is the most profoundly screwed up and corrupt society on Earth!
What is the 60/40 FDI rule?
It’s interesting to see how you were corporations were basically exploiting the entire country and the solution would’ve been to pass laws banning American ownership in the same way other countries have banned Chinese ownership. These corporations are soulless and grasping, and what was going on in Cuba 1950s despite all of their prosperity, was completely unfair to the Cuban people.
I agree.
I visited Cuba back in 2015, and so many locals were literally tearing up after learning I was visiting from America.. the hope in their expressions and voices for a rekindling in our government's relationship was one of the strongest emotions I've ever expirenced
I call bullshit
@@suyapapi2298 and you're full of it, it is absolutely true. If United States government got its ass out of its head and normalize relations with Cuba that place would be a booming Paradise and the standard of living would rise dramatically. Combine the best of Hawaii and Mexico and you've got Cuba.
Im in Cuba right now! And American! The people are sooo kind!!
@@Emerald-q3zdo they still have the vintage cars
bullshit, stop hyperbole anything to get likes
I don't know if you're aware of the existence of the São Paulo Forum (FSP), also known as the Foro de São Paulo. Check what it's about and who is part of it and a lot of latin american politics will start to make sense. Its highly related with when castro announced cuba was all alone and how that dictatorship hasn't collapse for decades despite de lack of economic sustainability (which you briefly mentioned at the end regarding venezuela) ((it's the very thing that connects venezuela and cuba)).
Woooh the evil spoopy commie boomers are going to starve you to death. Oooooh don't pay atention to the feudal comparable minimun wages oooooh.
Dude upstairs think he's funny with his satirical reply
as a cuban i am happy to see people talk about this. Patria y Vida.
Patria y Vida
Patria y Vida 💞 🇨🇺🖤
Cubans support che guevara♥️❤
Still?
@@Ramano619 fuck no we do not.
@@rainfevers why?
(You are a fake cuban)
Great analysis, though I would have liked to see stuff about Miguel Diaz-Canel, the leader since 2021 who's also the first non-Castro in charge since the revolution. He allowed private businesses to open up last year, though I haven't heard much of a follow up since.
"private"
the end sums him up pretty much, all he cares about is staying in power
@@KungaTV isnt that all politicians?
@@jamaicansunitedforchange5745 Are all countries in such bad shape as Cuba is? Not all politicians are dictators working for an authoritarian regime.
@@b.a.2406 you ignore the sanctions put on Cuba as a big factor to their lack of economic development despite these sanctions they have managed to make a lot of strives in areas of research and more
I lived in Miami for a year, working at a Lutheran church where the congregation was primarily Cuban, and I fell in love with the people and the culture. The priest/pastor there managed to make several trips a year to Cuba, always taking Bibles, clothes, and gifts from people in the congregation to relatives in Cuba.
When Pope John Paul II visited Cuba I and many others were excited, thinking that U.S. President Bill Clinton would use the event to open up relations with our neighbor, and were disappointed and angry when it became clear that Clinton lacked the vision to recognize the opportunity. That later presidents have done little to change things I find both idiotic and tragic.
Obama tried and the PCC did not want any open relationship with USA.
Change the communist dictatorship, restore what was stolen and relations go back to normal.
I wish this was in spanish so I could watch it with my dad. Thank You for educating people on my country. God bless 🙏🏽
The video that you used at 2:11 minutes of the cobblestone streets with modern cars and a bus in the background is not from Cuba but from Antigua, Guatemala as can clearly be seen by the red banner in the upper left on the screen.
Dudes gotta find stock camera footage from somewhere I guess.
I hate it when the stock footage doesn't match the narration too😣
yes, I noticed he did this 3 different times with the people as well!!
Been a couple times to cuba and man I loved the country side. Its a very diverse country, with some mind blowingly beautiful vistas. Hope I will return some day 😍
it's important to point out the economic down turn after the Cuban revolution was exacerbated by the US government claiming over 80 - 90% of all agricultural and arable land, the telephone and communication lines, and took 2/3rds of all the sugar fields after occupying the country. as a result of Castro returning the means of production back to the people, the American government tried to overthrow the government like it did to with the banana republic, to reinstall a Capitalist leader back into the Cuban gov now known as the failed coup 'the pay of pigs'
also it was America that restricted travel from cubans to america. they purposely restricted the number of visas handed out to cubans, as well as blocking food, medicine, supply's that the people would of needed to have a stable economy effectively crippling cuba on purpose, all because they weren't capitalists
Right, as if having Communists being next door neighbors should not prevent business being carried on as usual. Typical commie, BS.
"The US government" didn't "claim" 80-90% of arable land, that's a lie. Private companies based in the US owned a lot of the arable land in Cuba, and there's a difference. And those companies paid a fair price for that land, nobody forced the Cubans to sell it. American companies invested a lot of money in Cuba building hotels, oil refineries, and more. This is the reason Cuba was rich prior to Castro, as explained in the video. When Castro stole American property, the American government stepped in to defend its citizens by placing embargos on Cuba. Also let's not forget that Castro wanted to allow the Soviet Union to put nuclear weapons on Cuba pointed directly at the US. Americans have a right to defend our property and our safety. Cuba being poor is 100% the fault of Cubans and nobody else. You're poor because you are thieves who stupidly stole property from hard working citizens of the most powerful nation on earth located very close to you, and because you have zero understanding of economics, trade or how to be a good neighbor in general.
So things were good until Castro came with his anti- American rhetoric and policies?
So... in order for the communists to succeed, they need capitalists to fund them?
I am a Cuban that escaped, this is a great video showing both sides of the argument, and saying the truth that partisan media won't, the Cuban government never really meant well, they loved power so much, they never let go.
power, yum yum!
YUM YUM power. Even though they’re system failed and they nationalized almost everything they still haven’t changed their system bec if pride and ignorance
Being here now for almost 8 years, about to leave tomorrow actually. I can tell with confidence that most Cubans who are capable elect to leave by any means necessary, there's so much going that the embargo isn't enough to blame everything on, so many people are leaving on the daily it's crazy out here.
"actually"
True you can't blame the embargo on *everything*, but most things, yes. Which is odd that this video treats it like a footnote. Pretty much all the absurd compromises and economic fluctuations in Cuba, starvation, energy crisis, etc. is a direct result of the embargo.
@aprotosis Nah. They've had time to restructure their economy. The Cunan government has made the embargo the scapegoat for Cuba's woes, when in fact it's the corrupt government.
@@jamesmcinnis208 How exactly do you think an island nation can restructure their economy when the strongest nation on the planet has prohibited them from having any meaningful trade partners for over 60 years? Especially when the only given answer from those outside powers is to allow colonial capitalism to effectively steal their resources and exploit their labor piecemeal? A modern nation cannot survive without trade.
@aprotosis They trade with Canada, Spain, Germany and others. The US doesn't prevent that.
It is weird that this video never mentioned the long and harsh sanctions from the USA, which is one of the major factors that leads to Cuba's poverty.
Why does a socialist country need the ability to trade with a capitalist country to work? Its embargo that only applies to the United States while allowing for food and drugs to be traded. Cuba is free to trade with the rest of the world yet it’s americas fault their poor?
you mean communism?
@@KevinEdudeNo the economic warfare waged by the US which has been ruled against by every nation in the UN apart from the US and Isreal. The embargo which prevents companies from trading with Cuba and the US at the same time and the same embargo the US has used to deprive the Cubans from oxygen and other medical necessities especially during the pandemic. Also the communist party has no say in who runs the country all political party’s are banned from interfering in democratic votes. Being a member of the Cuban Communist Party is hard you must be elected by your community for your dedication to helping them and others and is basically just a way to show your dedicated and a good person on a CV. The majority of Cubans love their system and defend it only being reinforced by the unjust economic warfare the US has declared for half a century costing Cuba around 15 million a day and some estimates of a trillion dollars since it was imposed.
@@KevinEdude no he means the embargo on cuba, you dumb fucking piece of shit
America's "sanctions" against Cuba were nothing more than a mass economic withdrawal from Cuba. Cuba was doing fine after the "sanctions" until the new communist dictator took over.
Fascinating video! I actually went to a pretty good school system (USA), but until now the only thing I knew about Cuba’s role in history was the Cuban missile crisis.
"actually"
American school system is rubbish fyi
Did they teach you how JFK almost got us all killed
The u.s school system is subpar in regards to learning about other countries
@@MegaJellyNellyno it isn’t
This is the most accurate description of what happened to my country,
Is it though? What about horrors of communist regime and merciless sanctions by the US?
I do not know if the horrors of communist in Cuba where as bad as in Korea, china or communist Russia but, it happened in Cuba.
and
, if you add "the missile crisis" as dressing to that merciless salad of sanction , it will add a taste of shamelessness too
Your intro animations are so smooth, are you making them by yourself or are you adapting from something else? Great work!
Thank you so much! I’m making them myself and just using Adobe aftereffects with the geo layers 3 plug-in!
Very cool thank you for answering!
Same as Venezuela, apparently. Before the Great Depression, my grandfather spent some vacations in Cuba. As he told it, he had a KB Lincoln that was shipped there and back for his use. He lost the money in the thirties, though.
Cuba and Venezuela are the only spanish countries that hates Philippines
I love this Channel. Superb content and the engaging narrative. Nearly hitting 200k subs 👍 Love from Lithuania ♥️
@Polaris431 This is more of a fed to youtube video though
Pretty solid summary. The last 5 minutes is 100% spot on.
Superb documentary! Thank you very much for making it & sharing it with us!
End the U.S. government embargo of Cuba. The US strangles the Cuban economy with this embargo.
End the socialism.
190 OTHER than US countries they can trade with.
Embargo not the problem.
Love this video! It really motivated me to think about money in a completely different way. Thank you for sparking this new fire in me
Cuba even slipped from top spot in world Cigar production. A spot they held unchallenged for a hundred years. The high quality Cuban tobacco proved dependent on the magic touch of a small group of now deceased farmers. Something their "revolutionary" replacements have found impossible to duplicate.
Cuban cigars are trash 💯 have been for years
Yes. I think the Dominican Republic has cornered a great share of that product.
Cuba should drop communism. Look at the whole of Latin America and examine the countries there. The ones prospering and with better standards of living are the ones that rejected marxist-communist ideologies and economic policies in favor liberalism and capitalism. Same with many countries in Africa.
To the people who seriously think the embargo is the main reason for Cuba's economic and social problems, you need help. The embargo doesn't prevent other countries from trading with them and it doesn't even prevent some American businesses from trading with them. Their issues are mainly due to their inept and despotic communist government. The embargo on them is far far less severe than what America imposes on Iran or Russia or North Korea yet Cuba still does poorly? What's their excuse?
Unlike Cuba, USA has fast natural resources yet systematically suffers from problems like people dying because they can't afford to go to a doctor and has massive drug abuse and homeless problem. Cuba far exceeds USA in these areas yet is small country under heavy trade embargo. So yea, Marxism beats capitalism any day
Always despised the rather stupid idea that capitalism somehow brings prosperity, sub-Saharan Africa is extraordinarily poor and completely capitalist.
And this completely ignores the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union was a completely inefficient mess, but this completely inefficient mess managed to turn a backwards practically feudal state into one almost on par with the US in just a couple of decades while also going through tens of millions dead and the razing of half the country.
Even despite its inefficiencies it’s system still manage to accomplish all that it did speaks more to what an efficient centrally planned economy really do.
Because the capitalist countries of Central America are doing so amazing 😒
@@blackgold2589 I am quite surprised. As a Nigerian, it's unusual for me to see a westerner condemn capitalism and actually assert that it is harming and undermining much of Africa. Can you explain this to me? I mean, when countries like Botswana, Kenya, even my country of Nigeria, Morocco, Ethiopia, Rwanda (after their horrible genocide) all prove how capitalism can positively benefit a country via job creation, foreign investment, property rights, increased liberalism, increased standard of living, industrialisation, improved medicine and health care, modern education, reduced poverty etc, how exactly can you tell me that capitalism has been a negative for Africa?
@@cursedhusk598 Oh you mean those corrupt crime-ridden Central American countries? What do they have to do with my point? As I recall, I listed capitalism and liberalism in my initial comment. Why are you omitting Latin-American countries like Chile, Paraguay, Costa Rica, and Uruguay?
Before 1959, Cuba was one of the most developed countries in Latin America and showed socioeconomic indexes higher than those of many regions in the center of the United States or southern Europe, reference areas for ordinary Cubans, which were not usually compared with their Central American or Caribbean counterparts.
1- The first public lighting system in all of Latin America (including Spain) was installed in Cuba in 1889.
2- Cuba was the first nation in Latin America and the third in the world (after England and the US) to have a railway, in 1837.
3- Cuba was the first Latin American nation to apply ether anesthesia in 1847.
4- The first world demonstration of an industry driven by electricity was in Havana in 1877.
5- The first tram that was known in Latin America, circulated in Havana in the year 1900.
6- Also in 1900, before any other Latin American country, the first automobile arrived in Havana.
7- The first city in the world to have telephone with direct dialing (without the need for an operator) was Havana in 1906.
8- In 1907, the first X-ray department in Latin America opened in Havana.
9- In 1922 Cuba was the second nation in the world to inaugurate a radio station, PWX, and the first nation in the world to broadcast a music concert and present a radio newscast. In 1928 Cuba already had 61 radio stations, 43 of them in Havana, ranking fourth in the world, surpassed only by the US, Canada and the Soviet Union. In 1935 Cuba became the largest exporter to Latin America of scripts and radio recordings.
10- In 1925, with less than 200 plants, the nascent Cuban nation produced more than 5 million tons of sugar. At that time, most of the mills and farms were in the hands of foreigners, but already by the end of the 1950s, of the 161 mills working, 131 were owned by Cubans with 60% of the total production.
11- The Delicias mill became the largest in Cuba, with a milling capacity of 780,000 arrobas of cane per day. In 1952 it produced 1,383,653 bags of sugar.
12- In 1937 Cuba decreed for the first time in Ibero-America the Law of eight-hour workday, the minimum wage and university autonomy (the latter eliminated by Castro at the beginning of his tyranny).
13- In 1940 Cuba approved the most advanced of all the constitutions in the world of that time. It was the first in Latin America to recognize the right to vote for women, equal rights between the sexes and races, and the right of women to work.
14- The first country in the world that built a hotel with central air conditioning was Cuba. It was the Hotel Riviera, in 1951. And also the first building in the world built with reinforced concrete was made in Havana: the Focsa, in 1952.
15- In 1954 Cuba had one cow for every inhabitant, and ranked third in Latin America (after Argentina and Uruguay) in per capita meat consumption.
16- In 1955 Cuba was the second country in Latin America with the lowest infant mortality: 33.4 per thousand births.
17- In 1956 the UN recognized Cuba as the second country in Latin America with the lowest illiteracy rate (only 23.6%). Haiti had 90%, Spain, El Salvador, Bolivia, Venezuela, Brazil, Peru, Guatemala and the Dominican Republic, 50%.
18- In 1957, the UN recognized Cuba as the best country in Latin America in number of doctors per capita (1 for every 957 inhabitants), with the highest percentage of electrified homes (82.9%) and homes with their own bathrooms (79.9%). and the second country (after Uruguay) in caloric consumption per capita daily.
19- In 1957 Havana became the second city in the world to have 3D cinema and multi-screens (Cine Radio Centro, today Yara)
20- In 1958, according to the Statistical Yearbook of Cuba, there were 7,567 public (free) and 869 private primary schools on the island, that is, 8,436 in total. Of the public schools, 1,206 were in the countryside. In the mid-50s, public education had 25,000 teachers, and private education 3,500. There were seven times as many public teachers as private ones.
21- In 1958 Cuba was the second country in the world to broadcast color television.
22- In 1958 Cuba is the Latin American country with the most automobiles (160,000, one for every 38 inhabitants) and the sixth in the world in the average number of automobiles per inhabitant.
23- Cuba was in 1958 the country that had the most electrical appliances. The country with the most kilometers of railway lines per square km, and in the total number of radio receivers.
24- Despite its small size and that it only had 6.5 million inhabitants in 1958, Cuba was ranked 29th among the largest economies in the world.
What would have happened then if Cuba had followed the democratic course that Batista took and the Constitution of 1940 had been respected?
Can you imagine the development that Cuba would have today?
How much of the "development" of which you speak was due to US corporations involvement in the Cuban economy?
@@jabaltariq4606 Castro's multi-account henchman, Cuba, in 1958, 62% of the sugar mills were owned by Cuban citizens; 37% from US consortia and the remaining 1% from Spain and France; and that the 1952 harvest was for more than 7 million tons of sugar (in 2010 it barely reached 1.1, it was announced in May). During the fifties Cuba came to contribute 21.37% of world sugar production with a territory the size of the Baja California peninsula. Carlos Rafael Rodríguez would have told him that in health, education, transportation, telephony, railways, radio and TV, and of course, in sugar and tobacco production, Cuba was then and in almost everything, one of the two, sometimes the third and sometimes often the first country in Latin America, in those areas and some more. Cuba was self-sufficient in the consumption of sugar, milk, coffee, tobacco, tropical fruits and beef (since 1940); and practically self-sufficient in seafood, pork, tubers, vegetables, poultry, eggs, and shoe production. When Fidel Castro took power in Cuba, there were 6,325,000 head of cattle, of which 940,000 were dairy cows (the fifth largest producer in the region, according to the UN), for a population of six million; the data is from 1961, published by the Agrarian Reform Institute. For the period 1986-1989, they themselves reported that the per capita production of bovine meat had fallen by half compared to the level of 1958. The year 2000 is almost disastrous: there are fewer head of cattle than in 1946: 4,110,200 -the figure includes dairy cattle, if any. For a population 2.5 times larger. The figures are from the Statistical Yearbook of Cuba, reported by Óscar Espinosa Chepe (Cuba / Revolución o involución, Madrid, Aduana Vieja, 2007). The author is an economist, independent journalist, former official of the Banco Nacional de Cuba, former diplomat; imprisoned in 2003. Everything indicates that most of the bovine population has already gone through butcher shops: by 2010, at least 80% of the food consumed in Cuba is imported from the United States: chicken, corn, wheat, soybeans and powdered milk. While the fifteen countries with the highest milk production in Latin America increased their production by 228% during the period 1958-1996, Castro's Cuba increased its milk production by 11%. Despite the fact that in Castro's Cuba only those under seven and over 65 years of age drink milk, it is necessary to import milk. In 1958 Cuba was also self-sufficient in the consumption of evaporated and condensed milk. It is evident that today even the dairy cows ended up in the butcher shop. The authors of A Study on Cuba (University of Miami, 1965) state that the importation of meat from Canada and the United States began in 1960, when, incredibly, the authors say, it was sent to slaughterhouses to be studded, before the imminent famine. On the other hand, in pre-Castro Cuba, the import of fresh bovine meat was suspended in 1940, the year in which self-sufficiency was achieved and exports began (there was never foot-and-mouth disease in Cuba). From the 1940s to 1958, the kilogram of beef cost an average of 51.5 cents and annual consumption was 112.4 pounds per capita. At that time, Cubans had the highest protein intake in Latin America, after Argentina and Uruguay; more than 80% of the livestock was owned by Cuban citizens.
Today countries do not care who owns the capital, what they are looking for is that there are investments in the country, regardless of the country they are from, Castro's multi-account henchman. Castro's own tyranny today tries to attract capital, only that its history of stealing other people's property and the fact of being a bad debt payer does not help it.
Do you guys know that if you own a cow in Cuba yo can't kill it to eat or sell the meat? The government put a tag on one of the cow ears and come to check the cow every month. The government owns all the cows, if you kill one and they catch you you go to prison for 30 years. Yet they don't sell the meat in the market for the population they have a notebook for each family to receive the monthly food including meat, one pound of everything for each person in the family, other than that you have to buy it un the "black market" illegally and overpriced think about what you make working in a month for just a pound of meat, oil to cook, etc. That my friends is socialism, if you want to go and live pure socialism go to live in Cuba so you finally learn the lesson and don't vote for Democrats again in your life.
@@jabaltariq4606most of the businesses were owned by Cubans 💀 Americans would just open shop but that doesn’t mean the majority were gringos most Cubans before the revolution were rich even though it had lots of poverty also many black Cubans were wealthy also. And Cuban rich were more wealthier than the very millionaires living here in the U.S
I love your stuff, dude! Keep up the quality content!!
Glad you made that RUclips post about this or I’d have never saw it! Really interesting!
I just love your videos, you explain everything so interestingly. There is one thing I would also like to ask for, and maybe a suggestion, I tried to google a documentary about Gabon but couldn't find, every documentary talking about an african success story is usually Botswana, Rwanda and Ghana, but Gabon is richer than all of them (by per capita), so I'd love to see something about how Gabon and Equatorial Guinea are so rich.
I'm guessing it's got something to do with the black stuff, and I'm skeptical about how rich average people actually are
"so rich" lmao
@@fowlerfreak7420 compared to the rest of africa
I am cuban. I lived half of my live in Cuba and the other half in the United States.
I warn you, USA looks every day closer to what I saw in Cuba, please do not destroy this country voting for Kamala, don't be stupid.
Thank you! I have 3 daughters (in their 30s) who are liberal. I would love them to visit Cuba and see for themselves what I saw there a few years ago - all I kept thinking was, “American dogs live better than the Cuban people.” There should be programs to take these young adults to see what socialism will bring! Im searching! Many Americans might send their WOKE kids to see what is coming to America if they continue voting blue. It saddens me so to see our American way of life becoming what it is - and ignorance is voting it in.
So vote for a leftist communist. Smh.
USA will be like Nazi Germany if trump wins
gusano spotted. If you think kamala's policies are anything like cuba's you're a brainwashed liberal and a gusano.
Another awesome video! Keep up the great content! You ROCK!
A comparative study of Cuba and Taiwan (Formosa) is a worthwhile exercise.
A realistic retrospective will reveal that the United States gained significant intelligence from Soviet involvement in Cuba. That same dynamic has been operative in Taiwan for decades with technological and strategic advantages accumulating much in favor of the Peoples Republic of China.
Taipei has been a stalwart practitioner of practical pragmatism. Taipei could jump into the Beijing sphere of influence at the drop of a hat. Havana has been a 'lost-child' looking for love and security. The current U.S. Administration is in a unique position to cement a new relationship with Latin America with Kamala Harris and Doug Emhoff leading that 'charm-offensive'.
One chose the US and the other the Soviet Union. That’s all that needs to be said.
No it's not. Very inaccurate. A better comparison would be Cuba compared to El Salvador, Honduras, Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua. Inlude crime rates, Healthcare, literacy, and drug crimes, and progress to combat climate change. Cuba starts to look pretty good.
@@aloneil1089 And non of those countries can blame communism or socialism for their shortcomings and large refugee out flows. I have noticed that all of the documentaries which focus on communism seem to be okay with the race based chattel slavery which went on in Cuba until nearly 1900 and with the race and color hierarchy which continues to exist in Cuba and in all of the rest of the ex-slave states in the Americas to this day.
You forgot this, you forgot that! = we demand more in depth doc. thanks for your work i ask for pt.2 please.
amazing what people can endure. hope Cubans can have a better life soon.
My grandparent was a farmer in Cuba before the revolution when he was 6 they kicked his family out of his house and burned his house same shit happened to my grandmother.
Who did that and when
@@matheusvillela9150 it was in the province of sanctis spiritus he was kicked by the rural police.
@@sisyphusofephyra7801 But was that before or after the revolution?
@@matheusvillela9150 before
@@sisyphusofephyra7801 Thank you for clarifying
The US still does what it did of Cuba when it comes to land ownership, they did to Puerto Ricans and currently control all of our fertile land
William, it is easy to blame others for your failures.
@@earlysda Especially when it's not your fault, angloid
Foreign investment does nothing more than strip resources and export profits. Governments keep describing it as a good thing because the kickbacks they get are staggering.
Look into Singapore
“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries." Winston Churchill. Cuba committed suicide going Socialist. RIP.
yay. you're finally back.
Hello! :)
@@CasualScholar welcome back. I hope you had time to relax and find joy during the 5 months that you were gone. :)
@@Kraut_the_Parrot I appreciate that but I'm a bit confused. I haven't been gone for 5 months haha.
@@CasualScholar woah...... this is weird, I seem to have been unsubscribed from your channel somehow for the last 5 months. Even though I remember subscribing to you a year ago.... Well, I am resubscribing. No idea what youtube did there. But at least I have 5 months of videos now to catch up on, so there is one positive haha.
@@CasualScholar how much is the US gov paying you lol
I'm excited see this video. Always looking forward to your content
The Maine was a brand new ship (commissioned 1895) and sunk in 1898 with most of her crew. We know after analysis a century later that she probably blew her own magazine, but it sure as shit wasn't 'most likely a false flag'.
but theAmericans used it as a reason to enter into the CUban war of independence, resulting in US colonialism over Cuba for 60 years.
@Keith Bolender yes, and that's acknowledged in our history books; this doesn't diminish the fact of this channel mischaracterizing the incident and adding connotations which do not comply with the fact of the event.
I agree completely. The most likely root cause was a coal bunker fire. As far as I am concerned this channel lost all credibility with just that statement, for which there is absolutely no support. I find it very sloppy and have to wonder what other utter nonsense is lurking in the videos.
Just saw your video. I'm a natural born cuban, and living here. You're very accurate in every definition you just mentioned. Excellent job! Cuba shall be free someday! Viva Cuba Libre!
i love to hear from people in their own countries. Always good to hear from those that live it! Love you friend.
Don't let the G2 hear you 👀
“The Economic Blockade that United States imposed on Cuba, and which has been uninterrupted for more than 60 years, is product of the revenge of Dulles brothers against Fidel Castro, as a result of Castro expropriating the United Fruit Company (UFCO), more than 50,000 hectares of cultivation (Sugar Cane). Allen Dulles (CIA Director), and his brother John Foster Dulles (US Secretary of State), were a shareholder in UFCO, and were on the payroll for more than 20 years. Both Bros. demanded payment from Cuban Gov’t for the land expropriated at ridiculously high amount, when United Fruit Co. had obtained these large estates for $7 dollars per hectare and demanded compensation for $4,800 dollars per hectare. Castro was also asked to pay the cost of hotels, houses and casinos owned by the New York Mafia and other figures of high politics in the US. As Cuba does not pay, the Economic Blockade continues. “If we can't assassinate Castro, let's assassinate his economy”. Now, 12 Presidents have passed in the White House, and the Blockade continues. Castro, Dulles Bros., Meyer Lansky, Kennedy, LBJ and all that generation have already died; they are no longer here. And the Economic Blockade continues. Why? Why, if Castro NEVER affected the interests of the US people? Castro affected the interests of the New York Mafia, the UFCO and the interests of the Dulles Brothers. The Castro Gov't affected the interests some companies (6 companies), that conspired to assassinate him, but not affected the US People. (It would be an example to say that Mexico imposed an Economic Block on the US, cuz the US Gov’t confiscated properties from “El Chapo”, or from the Mexican Drug Trafficking Cartels). Castro never seized property from US citizens. Castro only seized the property of the New York Mafia. So, why? If perhaps the reason for the Blockade was cuz Fidel Castro was an ally of USSR, well, USSR has not existed for more than 30 years either. Then why? What is the reason for continuing with this Economic Blockade against Cuba? The answer to these questions, in any case, would be: "Cuz a dark power within the US wants to impose itself in Cuba, violating its sovereignty, in the same way that it has done and continues to do so throughout the world with the weakest nations". No common citizen of the US has anything against the Cuban people, but a certain sector of the Government's High Politics does…” Now, If you want to know about the atrocities and massacres of the UFCO and the CIA in Chile, Venezuela, Peru, Colombia, Cuba, all the Caribbean and Central America, consult Wikipedia: “Wars of the Banana Republics”. (From Stephen Kinzer book: “The Brothers”). Write the latter that appears in parentheses, and verify this information right here on RUclips. Or, do the same and search for it on Google. In History Channel: ruclips.net/video/Mu5pWe8cQSo/видео.html “Batista y la Mafia en Cuba”. .
Cuba was the original Vegas and it competed with the US on tvs per capita half a century ago. They still had a shockingly strong medical sector too.
That thing of the strong medical sector is a lie medic personal doesn't know how to use modern equipment
Cuban millionaires were wealthier than Americans millionaires. 29th largest economy in the world surpassing Japan, Spain and Austria and had one of the lowest infant mortality in Latin America
14:19 Did he just say Comic Con? I can’t unhear it 😂
He said "Comecon", which is short for The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance. Look it up on Wikipedia. Lol
This video says all the truth about my country, all that has been said here are facts, and is sad to see my country in this situation. I hope one day we all gather the strength to fight for our freedom, Castro is dead but we still live under a tyranny!!!
One day you'll live under Washington.... again.
@@jeffsmith5787 Why ? If Cuba can resist the US today they can do it anytime.
@@3markaw Not as long as so many Cubans look to the U.S. as a friend and ally while being choked and starved by them at the same time. This video mentioned the embargo ONCE! It's like doing a documentary on WWII and not mentioning Hitler.
well yeah if you look at a world map, cuba is some 150 kilometers under a tyranny
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@@abdullahtshabal9522 that tyranny being the United States and their illegal embargo.
This is a nice documentary, it is not the entire picture but nothing is. What it does and does it well is it opens up one’s appetite for more. Anyone taking interest in this island and subject deserves kudos. Well done!
Around 2:14 you show video of Guatemala saying its Cuba...
Cuba went into rapid decline once the Soviet Union collapsed and no longer provided financial support. Now 2 years of Covid restrictions has decimated their one main source of foreign currency, tourism. Power outages for most of the day and soaring inflation, has the population starving.
This is the result of the United States foreign policy which favors corporate interests. Castro appealed to Eisenhower to accept the revolution. He was prepared to have a pro democracy government some accommodations for the workers, etc. He was rebuffed and went the full communist route.
@@dianemitchell1717 maybe if Cuba favored corporate interests instead of Communist enslavement they wouldn't be broke and starving..? 😅
"Company" comes from "con pan" because you break bread with your co-workers... Ain't no bread in Cuba tho tovarisch💯
@@dianemitchell1717 The US under Eisenhower did support the revolution and quit supplying arms to the Batista regime at a critical moment when they could have crushed the revolution. The US/Cuba divide didn't come until after the revolution was successful and Castro started appropriating the property of US citizens. The embargo was a bit of an over-reaction but the reality is it is not why Cuba is poor. Central planning based around non diversified exports is. The embargo is actually pretty leaky and loads of places still trade with Cuba but the value of Cuban exports has diminished. They mostly export tobacco and sugar. Sugar is not as valuable as it once was due to cheap high fructose corn syrup, and tobacco is now competing with loads of other South American countries. It didn't help that Cuba reduced quality standards in tobacco to try and produce more of it, Cuban Cigars used to be considered particularly high value but not anymore which really hurts its value. Tourism suffered a similar fate due to Covid.
Cuba's own reluctance to allow foreign capital is also hurting them. In order to diverify into other industries they need people with money to build the factories and infrastructure, but no one is gonna do that if the Cuban government is going to nationalize any profitable industry. People think foreign investment is bad because they assume its just exploitation and there surely would be to some degree but it is also what gets an economy started. The US actually became as wealthy as it has due to foreign investment in the early 19th century building factories and railroads when it was still the equivalent of a third world shit-hole.
@@dianemitchell1717how dumb can you be ?
This video is about Cuba, why is there a picture of Justin Trudeau on the thumbnail?
In honor of his REAL father.
@@steve3131 😭😭😭😭😭
my dad came from cuba in the 1980s during the mariel boat lift. He had been arrested as a teen in cuba for escaping the mandatory military service, "the military" just meant being used as a slave in the sugar cane fields, cutting sugar cane. He tells me people would hurt themselves to be allowed to leave, and he tried and failed to be by injecting his leg with petrol, he had to run instead but he was caught and then was given to opportunity to leave to the US during the mariel exodus. He was 16. After surviving the trip over here, he was homeless and ended up very involved with selling drugs in miami. Now hes dad to 3 gen z kids who he doesnt understand at all, lotsa trauma, cubans suffer a lot.
Was his name Antonio?
Happy that he managed to make it in normal life. In Europe many refugees does not have nothing. They do cheap labour in the south of Europe working in agriculture for 10-20$/€ day or go to the northern countries and had to sell drugs to survive and many get addicted and then life goes down
@@joxepojoxepin2752 no
They’re mostly joking with you, “Scarface” joke
@@IblewuponyourfaceIII Never seen it haha, i just know its notorious for villainizing my dads generation of cuban immigrants in the states
We go to Cuba every other Winter, Spanish was my first language. We take an extra suitcase with clothing and stuff to give to the Cubans, Wendy gave some stuff to a Local who remembered us 3 years later. Wendy works at the local School here in Canada and collects all the discarded school supplies, we give those to the Cubans, I bring Sports equipment for Baseball . I love watching the Cuban teams play, their fields are not manicured to pool table perfection, they are like playing on a Cow pasture, the ball can pitch and roll in any direction, but they are always on it. that is what makes them such good players. Although we are underweight in luggage on arrival, somehow after giving 50 pounds of stuff away, we are always overweight on departure, another $20 to the Cuban Govt.
As someone learning about political economics, does anyone have an example of a now communist country that transitioned from capitalism? Whenever I read about broken communist states, they always seem to have jumped right into communism through dictatorship/ revolution instead of transitioning from neoliberalism. From what I understand though, Marx argued that the struggle between social classes defines economic relations in a capitalist economy and will inevitably lead to revolutionary communism. Has this ever been the case?
The closest examples I’ve been able to find are Scandinavian countries, though those are definitely not communist.
i'm pretty sure venezuela became socialist democratically, technically rusia was capitalist to a certain extent(i don't know much in this case but aparently it was pretty industrialized at that point and the government was technically a democratic government since the revolution of february), cuba was capitalist for sure before the revolution, i'm pretty sure most of latin-america had a capitalist system as for countries that didn't have dictators in power before the transition maybe in africa and the countries in eastern europe. Basically any country that became comunist due to the influence of the third world. That being said take what i said here with caution until you've researched it yourself
No, communism is total nonsense; it states that the "proletariat" are going to rise up and overthrow "the people on top with no accountability" and create a classless society... one that is enforced by the revolutionaries... who are basically on top with no accountability... which effectively makes it a society with at least two distinct classes... and then they wonder why their revolutionary leaders consistently become authoritarian dictators.
Communism is an inherently broken ideology, all it achieves is swapping one set of corrupt leaders with another one, who're usually just as bad as the last guys if not worse. The "jumping right into communism through dictatorship/ revolution" is how Marx's ideas function in reality. The communist revolutionaries are the ones who're supposed to fight a perpetual war against "capitalists" and "reactionaries" and "counter-revolutionaries" and the "bourgeoisie" and there're no proposed limits to the revolutionaries' power or rules of conduct they're supposed to follow in that war, which means they can do practically anything they want. Moreover, these enemies of theirs are not specific groups of people, they're basically anyone who isn't a communist. Communism divides the entire world into communists and everyone else, then declares war on everyone else.
That's because communism doesn't really happen naturally, it's pretty much only enforced through war and dictatorships. I honestly only known of a couple examples where a communist party held significant amount of power through popular support and a fair election and that was just in a single state in India and even then it fluctuated. In every free election communists have at best been a fringe party, they know they can't gain power fairly so that's why they've universally been dictatorships and one of the first things they always do is destroying any other parties and enforcing strict, brutal rule after destroying any kind of democracy and its also why communist countries, regardless of how powerful their parties are, don't really do any multi party elections and even when they do (like North korea) the other parties are simple puppets with no power and aren't allowed to oppose with the communist party, only agree or stay silent.
Neoliberalism can be bad, but can still work and even some of the worst examples of neoliberalism are still better than communism. One thing you'll notice if you look into communist government is a pattern ad they fall into 3 basic patterns:
1. The country pretty much collapses instantly and needs to be propped up by foreing support.
2. They succeed at first but stagnate quickly. This is because they're a rapine economy and survive by pillaging foreign assets and the wealth of their own people which they exhaust over time.
3. They chug along for awhile thanks to natural resources. This is how the USSR survived for so long and how they supported most of the communist world. They had VAST amounts of oil and gas as well ad many minerals, some of the largest deposits in the world. They're basically like the Gulf states except they use their resource wealth to prop up their other failing industries. It's why the USSR economy took a nose dive every time oil and gas prices dropped or even dipped.
=DUDE,THE EXAMPLE IS RIGHT HERE,IN DEMOCRATIC STATES,AND EUROPE AS WEL
=THERE ALMOST COMMUNISM ALREADY BY THE WHOLE STRUCTURE IS THE SAME,BECAUSE OF PEOPLE ARE BEING TAKEN AWAY OF ANY RIGHTS,TURNED INTO CATTLE,AND ONLY LEFT IS TO MAKE EVERYTHING GOVERNMENT OWNED
Vietnam is socialist and its also in the top 4 retirement destination for US Retirees. Just putting that out there.
shame I really want to visit Cuba, tropical environment and mountains? amazing
My father's first name was "Tony". He came to Miami in the 80's during the boat lift. He had it tough at first...working as a dish washer. But then he got an opportunity to work in pharmaceuticals. Everything went well until one fateful night he was murdered by Colombian thugs. I'll never forget him.
Yeah i remember him. The son of a b**ch killed his best friend and your auntie Gina.
I thought you were going to say Scarface, it almost sounded like the movie
@@davosgroup9744 OMG... same!
I was waiting for someone to post this lol. Did he kill his friend Manny ?
@@barrybritcher All I know is that the same night that my father was killed by Colombians his best friend Manny was shot to death by persons unknown. Manny's wife was my father's sister. She was also murdered and her body was found in the same house where my father was murdered. I blame all of this on Donald Trump since Donald Trump, according to Biden and Pelosi, is responsible for all the evil in the world.
Interesting/informative/entertaining. Excellent still-motion photography pictures/drawings/maps. Enabling viewers to better understand what the orator is describing.
So much for objectivity or even-handedness. In other words, let's shove all blame on Cuban economic policies and next to nothing on the economic war that has been waged on Cuba since 1962. A trade embargo, sanctions, restrictions to finance and credit, and even deliberate efforts to undermine international trade via the Helms-Burton Act and Cuban Democracy Act. The trade embargo alone has cost Cuba over $130B. Let's also not ignore how the Cuban Adjustment Act not only contributes to brain drain but outright incentivizes thousands of Cubans to risk their lives to improve their economic situation - a dangling carrot extended to no other country. Cuba's poverty is absolutely by design. As Nixon once said regarding Allende's Chile, "make the economy scream". And so it has since 91, very much so due to cruel US policy that only exists to pander to the exilio lobby as well as the Cuban vote in a swing state, made all the more malevolent by a Trump administration at the advisement of Otto Reich, which rolled back all of the progress made due to Obama's normalization right in the middle of a pandemic.
Cuba trades with: Venezuela, China, Spain, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, and the Netherlands, etc. The U.S. does not control the Worlds economy!!! Remittances to Cuba from Cuban immigrants in the U.S. are about 3 Billion dollars yearly "Officially". That's about a quarter of Cuba’s gross national income! The Cuban government "Fidel", not only stole "seized" property and businesses from the U.S. and foreign nationals, but also from middle class Cuban citizens..! How would you like ANY government "seizing" your house or your family's small business? All that B.S., while government officials live in mansions, drive European cars and live the luxurious lives of the very ELITE, which they so vehemently criticized!!! Yeah, the U.S. and of its sanctions really hurt Fidel and all his cohorts and the luxurious lives they live at the expense of the common Cuban people..! Stop spreading lies and misinformation PLEASE..!
@@gregrodriguez714 Firstly, nuance is possible. One does not have to be an EXTREME supporter of either side to recognize a wrong. Yes, Cuba, on paper, is free to trade with the outside world and as much as she can attempt to. That said, her options are very limited because of the Helms-Burton Act and Cuban Democracy Act, both which penalize nationals of 3rd countries from trading with Cuba - penalties which could result in asset seizures and denied access to US ports and markets. As a result, most exporters will chose to sideline Cuba for fear of losing access to the US market. As a result Cuba losses billions a year in potential trade. Very few will forfeit that access. Same is true for Cuba attempting to access finance from 3rd parties. Sorry to break it to you but the US does dominate most of the world’s economy - trade, finance, foreign investment, capital… you name it. The dollar is the world’s most sought after reserve currency. The US dominates the world’s politics as well. 40% of the OAS’s operating budget is paid by the US. US pays a third of the UN budget and buys votes with USAID and IMF/WB development loans. The US is the world’s hegemon. Why un americanista would deny this, I have no idea.
US products in Cuba? Of course. They have to buy said products from 3rd party countries and pay in dollars (not Cuban pesos) - hence dollar stores. Remittances? The same one's Trump limited along with flights? And why are you bringing up remittances as some sort of oddity? Name me a developing country that does not receive remittances from their emigrants. Want to discuss them? Sure. The exilio credits itself with providing $3B worth per year. How far do you think that goes? Divide $3B among the 11 million Cubans on the island. That comes up to $265 per Cuban annually, or $22 a month. Inequality? Really? Compared to the US where a third of the country’s total wealth is in the hands of just 1% of the population?
And oh, yes, the sanctity of US property seized. Educate yourself on how US carpetbaggers came and basically bought most of Cuba’s arable land from under Cuban’s feet for pennies on the dollar after 1898, and how US banks did this again in 1919, indebting small Cuban sugar growers with easy money only to come back and foreclose on their cane fields - adding to the already great share of Cuban real estate in US hands, or how the criminal government of Batista further enriched his cronies and his organized-crime business partners at the expense of the Cuban people. Yes, yes, all that real estate was nothing but legitimate. Absolutely the government in place since 59 has made a great deal of mistakes, some deliberate, some out of bad circumstances, some out of stupidity, but to push 100% of the blame on them. Spare me that extremist one-sided nonsense. No seas tan arrastrado y reaccionario, y aprenda a pensar un poco mas por ti mismo.
So the communist system relies on America basically. Sounds legit/
@@Pituqat What about Cuban property seized? Even small Cuban businesses where seized..! or how the criminal government of "Fidel" enriched his cronies and his communist partners at the expense of the Cuban people. None of the sanctions seem to have affected the lives of Fidel and his family or cronies..? They live in extreme luxury, have luxurious mansions, cars and even yachts... The same Capitalist inequalities they once condemned... Now they enjoy to the fullest, while prohibiting the rest of the population "Everything" ..! One sided? Get real buddy... Cubas government is "CORRUPT"..! Don't blame the U.S.
there is no objectivity in this really terrible video -- it is simply standard anti-revolutionary propaganda from a US perspective. It can not focus in on the embargo as it would lend credence to Cuba's claims. And why nothing about the hundreds of acts of terrorism against aCuba civilians? because it does not serve the ridiculous narrative of this mis-informed piece of trash. .
I watched this movie, unfortunately the speaker wasn't an impartial person about the whole facts in Cuba. The maker of this movie didn't mention the causes or roots of poverty and inflation in Cuba. One of the major things that he did hide was the American economic sanction on Cuba. He didn't mention about the CIA interference and many other indirect & direct problems that US has had caused on this island....
You pull a Castro you get sanctions period
love your content!
I lived in Cuba as a young man from Jamaica. It was the best time it's history, music, people and natural beauty is best in the Caribbean. Look at Haiti today poverty and HIV highest in the Americas. Other Caribbean islands drug cartels and violence not in Cuba. Cuba need investors and US tourist like the old days. Viva Cuba.
“You will own nothing and be happy” we have learned nothing from the past.
Correction; Christopher Colombus described it as the most beautiful land that eyes have ever seen. You omitted the word land in the quote.
There is one really important thing you should mention about the American embargo! The embargo allows private Cuban citizens to negotiate with the USA as long as the Cuban government is not involved in the negotiations; however, the Cuban government has never allowed the citizens to take advantage of that! Therefore, we can cry USA bad, but who is not allowing Cuban private citizen to have private enterprise and negotiate with USA investors?
EXACTLY but they’re not ready for this conversation.
@@StoicsaiyanMost of them are drastically brainwashed!
US Foreign Policy is the answer
I think at this point it is safe to say that the economic sanctions did nothing good for either nations and further alienated Cubans from Americans.
Not really, but maybe I don’t see that because I lived in Miami for a while, but Cubans love the US there, and I was treated really well in Cuba when I went.
The Cubans took the Chicago mafia out of the island, the 2 oil companies present on the island agreed to refine Russian oil but the USA intervened to prevent this from happening, it was after this that Cuba nationalized the 2 oil companies. To throw Cuba into the arms of the USSR and then complain. The real horror is that the USA has been hounding Cuba for 60 years. If arrangements had been made, it would have been a long time since we would have moved on.
They took the Chicago Mafia out and replaced it with the Castro Mafia and turned Cuba into a Castro Plantation.
calling cuba rich in 1920 is straight up evil
seriously, what is going on in his mind
Thank you for making this video for us! 🙌😊
Aligning with the USSR was a catastrophic mistake for Cuba. Economic isolation is almost always leads to subsistence, and more so as technology becomes more complex.
Cuba aligned with the US even when it intervened in its democracy to become a dictatorship. But when Batista started murdering people another dictator took his place with communist characteristics.
Cuba would not have been went the path it went had the US valued another countries democracy over its own interests.
@@k.l3062 Perhaps... ironically, America supported Che Guevara, but he performed a theatrical 180 flip to the communist sphere once he gained power. We may never know the truth. Che and his Soviet supporters are long dead... Was he always a staunch Soviet, or was America simply outbid diplomatically, as the Soviets saw Cuba as leverage in bringing America to the table?
Interesting that NOBODY mentions Socialism in the comments.
Interesting that BATISTA APOLOGISTS do not mention USA Embargos and meddling.
Great video, hope RUclips pushes it up a bit
Thank you I really appreciate that :)
Absolutely wonderful. Thank you so much.
Sincerely,
Alicia from Sweden.
The Cuban government is the problem. One of the many examples of a dysfunctional government: They are surrounded by water but have a severe shortage to nothing of fish to eat.
On my visit to cuba a few years ago from trinidad...i was told no fishing / vessls were allowed in cuban water,( gorgeous blue carrubean waters) as a secuirty measure,( cia hunreds of attemlts to kill castro)
Mainly havanna.
Caricom( caribbean regional body) has repeatedly called fpr liftjng oppressive usa sanctions on cuba..
We in region have benefitted from.world class cuban drs and h
nurses and thier herbal pharmacplogy appoarch ti medjcine
And havjng gp do home visits..wow
So medjcal care free for life
.no crime no usa based drugs/ guns war as in miani abd usa and 23:05 all other carubbean usa alignged countries.
Certainly fdi in tourism puts thw visitor in different view of cuba as it looks very soanish miaimi beach withour all us frabxhies
.its very green country not poluured as sanctions msant limited vehicle grpwth so roads and countey with non polluted (traffic free)
Of course it would be great to get its trainline modeynised
And its eco tourism ans healtj sector tourism support by fdi.
And of course who woukd not enjoy cyban ciffe literally farm to table as most foods..
In lical home stays
The grass always appear greener. Bur usa poverty vahrabcy drugs hate crime. ..which immigrants discover on arrival in usa
Is better to be socialt poor( housinh heakth basuc food provided) or capitalist usa poor abd suffering as taxes increase wealthy gey rich while govt impiverish middle class
Perspectives i guess
But with alittle brics new development bank lians cuba can become tbw true caribbean paradise. And sanction out usa has done it hood as it has survided inn9vatively withour drugs crime greed. Hda exported as capitalism( baptista)
Geopolitics of west undermines good governance of glibal sourh
So let support brics. And glibal sourh abd elimjnate toxic usa hegemony ...
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Because of Batista's resentment for his coup d'état, Cubans renounced their accelerated economic advancement and modernity achieved in just seven years, to live a long communist nightmare without freedom and in increasing misery for almost seven decades.
Um batista was an asshole bro thats why the revolution happened, Cuba had no freedom under that guy or castro
And we have people here that WANT communism! These people are either ignorant or nihilistic.
cia shill spotted. cubans were being enslaved and batista was supported by the cia to exploit cuba.
@@derekwest4245 read some marx before you judge communism. You haven't got a clue what communism actually is if you really think capitalism with its genocidal tendencies and exploitative nature which killed hundreds of millions of people in just the last decade is so good and successful (spoiler alert, capitalism only succeeds in the countries that are the exploiters while the exploited capitalist countries that are forced to be capitalist by the exploiters are living in unimaginably horrible conditions and being enslaved and have their country's industry, natural resources and materials privately owned by overseas corporations in those exploiter nations such as the usa and most countries in europe) F capitalism, communism is the way forward.
@@Sednas said the Marxist…
Look around the world. Which countries are people immigrating to and which countries are people leaving. That will tell you which ideology is better for the people.
So I'm an actual cuban living in Cuba.
I'm curious if you actually interviewed actual mainland cubans or researched into cuban-US History.
There is a ton of important information you left out, and truthfully a lot of what you portray in the video is highly inaccurate, especially around the revolutionary period.
I'm sorry I usually enjoy your videos, but as an actual cuban I feel a bit disappointed in this one.
He's completely ignored the massive racial and class divides that led to the Cuban Revolution.
@@jasonhaven7170 He also didn't touch on any of Operation Northwoods or Operation Mongoose in general. Nor Memorandum 499 in Cuba state relations.
Hell he didn't even touch on any of the massive constitutional reform in 2019 or the upcoming elections in 2023. This is just another Cuba video seen through the same cold war lens it has been viewed with for the past six decades.
@@animeloco13 The video focuses on the reasons for Cuba's misery. There might be miissing informatinon but there's almost nothing inaccurate. As a Cuban I actually enjoyed it.
There's nothing massive about the constitutional reform just more totalitarism. I'm not counting on any surprises on the oncoming elections but feel free to enlight me if I'm wrong. Still both events have nothing to do with the video.
@@alejandroavila2646 how were any of the recent reforms over the past few years "more totalitarianism"? Cuba isn't even totalitarian.
@@animeloco13 The communist party is above the constitution and is the only one that can rule while other parties are banned.
There's no rule of law or sepration of powers.
There's no freedom of press, speech or assembly.
What is Cuba according to you if it's not a totalitarian dictatorship?
The 1940 Constitution gave a great boost to the development of Cuba, as it brought political stability to the country and put Cuba on the path of economic growth. Grau and Prío began that Cuban economic development that was spreading to the provinces as well, and later with Batista it became more accelerated, since under the coup Batista many of the great construction works were carried out in Havana, which gave it enormous modernity, and it caused a rapid growth of the middle classes in the country that began to disappear from 1959 with the violent seizure of power by the later tyrant Fidel Castro and Cuba being dragged towards communism, then beginning the favelization of Cuba and the conversion of all Cubans in an increasingly miserable town, in addition to the physical and social destruction of Cuba. The Cuban people need to rediscover the Constitution of 1940, which from 1952 under Batista and from 1959 under Castro, was trampled on, because its democratic postulates and respect for freedoms made it annoying for its dictatorial powers.
I’m Cuban and truth is. Cuba never had good presidents, the only good ones I remember was one who became president of the republic of arms (founded by Manuel Céspedes when he freed his slaves gave a speech to 500 people and incited the Cuban independence movement) even Mario Garcia Cubas third president is highly respected but in the same time hated because almost all of Cubas president have history with corruption. Even though they did good things and Mario even is honored for being a great Cuban leader during WW2 or 1 I believe. But in my opinion those men were never destined to be Cubas leaders. Jose marti and Manuel Céspedes and Antonio maceo were hell even maximo Gomez. But one day cuba will have the leader that it’s supposed to have and cuba will sit in the throne of the Caribbean like we did during our glory days
@@Stoicsaiyan The purpose of a "president" (head of state) and a ruler is to bring development to the nation but above all, to UNITE the people as much as possible and establish and respect the FREEDOMS of the people, something that the Castro tyranny did. On the contrary, it pulverized the Cuban nation and divided Cubans like never before. Never before 1959 were so many Cubans looking for a way to leave Cuba. The tyrant Fidel Castro enthroned HATE among Cubans, even within families. That is why the Castro tyranny is condemned to disappear, despite the hope that it initially brought to the people but that the tyrant Castro betrayed by lying to the people.
Hello guys dont forget that Venezuela is the best kept secret of the Caribbean region. In fact about 2,500-3,000 years ago, farmers and potters related to the Arawak-speakers of northeast of actual Venezuela established a pathway into the Caribbean. Using the delta fingers of Orinoco River Basin like highways, they travelled from the interior to coastal Venezuela and pushed north into the Antilles islands of the Caribbean Sea, settling Puerto Rico and eventually moving westward. Their arrival ushered in the region’s Ceramic Age, marked by agriculture and the widespread production and use of pottery.
Over time, nearly all genetic traces of Archaic Age people vanished, except for a holdout community in western Cuba that persisted as late as European arrival. Intermarriage between the two groups was rare, with only three individuals in the study showing mixed ancestry.
Many present-day Cubans, Dominicans and Puerto Ricans are the descendants of ancient people from Venezuela , as well as European immigrants and enslaved Africans. But researchers noted only marginal evidence of Archaic Age ancestry in modern individuals.
And even today, with economic crisis happening in Venezuela, the Antilles is seeing an influx of alot of South Americans (mainly Venezuelans) on the lewaard islands. In a couple years, if this trend continues, the whole demographic landscape of the islands can change again.
Venezuela is the most hated in the whole South America
Cuba is just one big depressing and decaying slum
The fundamental misunderstanding of how wealth is literally created is the root cause of a lack of wealth.
China made in 50 years, without one bullet fired, what took the west 500 years of looting continents an killing millions. So, there are different ways to reach the wealth, and some of those poor nations are aware of them obviously more than yourself. The difference is in ethical structure. Somebody is not a thief for moral reasons, and other because of lack of opportunity.
@@zazu9117 Looting and killing doesn’t create wealth. It may help some few “reach” wealth but doesn’t increase it.
Its really sad what happened to Cuba and Venezuela which were once in the top 20 richest country.
Should of left them under the Spanish Empire, Spain did a better job
Spain is a beautiful, happy place 😚 can't wait to go next week!!!
“The Economic Blockade that United States imposed on Cuba, and which has been uninterrupted for more than 60 years, is product of the revenge of Dulles brothers against Fidel Castro, as a result of Castro expropriating the United Fruit Company (UFCO), more than 50,000 hectares of cultivation (Sugar Cane). Allen Dulles (CIA Director), and his brother John Foster Dulles (US Secretary of State), were a shareholder in UFCO, and were on the payroll for more than 20 years. Both Bros. demanded payment from Cuban Gov’t for the land expropriated at ridiculously high amount, when United Fruit Co. had obtained these large estates for $7 dollars per hectare and demanded compensation for $4,800 dollars per hectare. Castro was also asked to pay the cost of hotels, houses and casinos owned by the New York Mafia and other figures of high politics in the US. As Cuba does not pay, the Economic Blockade continues. “If we can't assassinate Castro, let's assassinate his economy”. Now, 12 Presidents have passed in the White House, and the Blockade continues. Castro, Dulles Bros., Meyer Lansky, “Lucky” Luciano, Frank Costello, Kennedy, LBJ and all that generation have already died; they are no longer here. And the Economic Blockade continues. Why? Why, if Castro NEVER affected the interests of the US people? Castro affected the interests of the New York Mafia, the UFCO and the interests of the Dulles Brothers. The Castro Gov't affected the interests some companies (6 companies), that conspired to assassinate him, but not affected the USA People. (It would be an example to say that Mexico imposed an Economic Block on the US, cuz the US Gov’t confiscated properties from “El Chapo”, or from the Mexican Drug Trafficking Cartels). Castro never seized property from US citizens. Castro only seized the property of the New York Mafia. So, why? If perhaps the reason for the Blockade was cuz Fidel Castro was an ally of USSR, well, USSR has not existed for more than 30 years either. Then why? What is the reason for continuing with this Economic Blockade against Cuba? The answer to these questions, in any case, would be: "Cuz a dark power within the US wants to impose itself in Cuba, violating its sovereignty, in the same way that it has done and continues to do so throughout the world with the weakest nations". No common citizen of the US has anything against the Cuban people, but a certain sector of the Government's High Politics does…” Now, If you want to know about the atrocities and massacres of the UFCO and the CIA in Chile, Venezuela, Peru, Colombia, Cuba, all the Caribbean and Central America, consult Wikipedia: “Wars of the Banana Republics”. (From Stephen Kinzer book: “The Brothers”). Write the latter that appears in parentheses, and verify this information right here on RUclips. Or, do the same and search for it on Google. In History Channel: ruclips.net/video/Mu5pWe8cQSo/видео.html “Batista y la Mafia en Cuba”.
@@salvadorvizcarra769 False dichotomy, it was the United States government & the CIA who placed Castro & Communism to rule over Cuba. And the CIA is controlled by the UK’s MI6. The British Royals have been playing you since the Spanish-American Revolution against Spain.
I will dare to say that this is probably the most accurate summary video on Cuba´s situation. Even if you used stock videos that are not from Cuba, it still has my approval. I am Cuban, born and raised, with 24 years of experience living in that sh!th0le. 👌
I cant watch a video that starts off without historical accuracy 😂 and i hope you cant either
#Justice4Chad
Justice will come eventually haha