Cuba is currently facing one of its worst energy crisies in its history, entirely caused by the US goverment further tighting sanctions on Cuba, and with the recent overthow of the Venezuelan goverment now Cuba has lost its most valuable trade partner.
There is a deficit over 2,000 MW, so its supply isn't even coming close to its demand.
Local transportation, services, and obviously healthcare is being restricted. And considering Cuba does more for the global south in heathcare then literally any western country, it tells you how much this really effects the world, not just the nation itself. As of writting this thread Russia is sending a humanitarian ship to Cuba, do we think the US is gonna stop the ship?
So i must ask, what can we do indiviually to help Cuba?
77 posts and 41 image replies omitted.<Inside Cuba, particularly the Business Administration Group SA (GAESA) is a holding company that controls 40% of the island’s GDP, directly administered by the Cuban Armed Forces (FAR) and linked to the Castro family. While the majority of the population lives in extreme poverty, the group controls the tourism sector by managing luxury hotels, airports, ports, travel agencies, and thousands of shops. It manages import and export operations, controlling various trade routes. It controls the flow of foreign currency, including services through Western Union and the International Financial Bank (BFI). Its financial assets, totaling tens of billions of dollars, are held in secret accounts abroad, used for massive investments in infrastructure and the private sector, at the expense of social services such as healthcare.
<Several holding companies, linked to varying degrees to the country’s largest economic conglomerate, are examples of these: CIMEX SA, owner of a network of stores, gas stations, import and export companies, restaurants, and financial services; ETECSA, the monopoly on telephone and internet services; Corp. Habanos SA, a joint venture between the State-owned Cubatabaco group and the British tobacco company Imperial Tobacco; BioCubaFarma, which groups together pharmaceutical companies; and Cubana de Aviación, the national airline that controls domestic and international flights. These are just some of the most important examples.
<Many of these companies operate through offshore companies registered abroad, often in Panama, to circumvent US sanctions, demonstrating how State capital merges with private capital.
Cuba is literally just another corrupt incompetent latin american country that uses welfarism and communist aesthetics to hide it's fundamental flaws.
>>2825103Well is that so ? i dont want the united states invading the rest of latin america either ?
>>2825104Neither do I. But if it happens, Cuban workers and soldiers should engage in revolutionary defeatism as the Cuban govt is not worth fighting for.
>>2825103Even if that was the case I don't want Trump to turn Cuba into another Epstein-colony
>>2825130You are not a leftist if you actually think this
>>2825097Firstly, America won't accept ships which have docked in Cuba in the previous 180 (might be wrong about this figure) days. Effectively this means a cargo ship has to cross the Atlantic without docking in America, by far the largest import and export market in the region, all so they can trade with Cuba, a very small market. Financially, this makes no sense, and it results in Cuba having to pay the highest transport fee of any country on earth for their imports and exports.
Secondly, trade flows function like gravity. The closer and larger an economy, the more you will trade with it. Given its proximity and size, America should be Cuba's primary trading partner - and would be, were it not for the embargo. Cuba has to find new trading partners instead of using their natural biggest trading partner, adding to expense and harming their ability to buy and sell goods competitively.
The embargo slowly strangles Cuba and severely retards it's economic development.