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?
>>2698776you can donate to the flotilla that is going there to help, or if you have enough balls to not be scared that the US government might bomb you join them yourself
Nuestra America Flotilla:
https://act.progressive.international/flotilla/ >>2698791Unironically thanks for the link, was worried the best I got was buying a bunch of Cuban cigars.
The US empire dying and it wants to take as many of it's neighbours along with it
>>2698776China should send solar panels and electric vehicles there. This would make the island self sustaining when it comes to energy.
>>2699043that libtard should be giving them hypersonics
>>2698791We should do a joint fund, in the name of leftypol, for the flotilla, raise a decent amount?
>>2699043Cuckold won't do jackshit, Lukashenko invade Russia NOW!!!!1
so has anything changed?
Boomp as happening addicts now claim Cuba has fallen to the Untied $$nakes$$
Is Cuba in a worse spot for dealing with a crisis like this than it was at the onset of the Special Period?
Did the solar panel projects work
>>2743921kinda, they have some places (some schools and hospitals) that can run independent of the grid and some big solar farms, but not yet enough to replace the oil needed, and no (or not enough) electric cars/bus either, and the industry is probably at a standstill
>>2718408yes a bit worse, because even if they had to rebuild the economy and trade, they could still manage to sell their sugar and get oil for it, now they're effectively entirely blockaded from any oil entering
did putins oil tanker arrive yet?
>>2744174u made it a month after mine though…
>>2743921>>2744134 (me)
also I will add that having too much intermittent renewable (solar/wind) into the grid and not enough controllable energy (gas/hydro/nuclear/coal/oil) is causing some serious infrastructure problems and can cause unintended blackouts
China should be flooding it with solar panel kits
Long term it would need to build the multi-stage hydro electric dam in the eastern part of the country (some 600-700 MW potential) and add pumped storage to stabilize the grid if its going to use lots of solar. We are talking 10s of billions of dollars as total electrical system revamp though. Too bad the nuclear power project was never rstarted.
>>2746544Eh, hydro seems better to me since you can't ban fuel for hydro plants
>>2757184Wrong. You understate the social fascist entity's hand in angola. Social fascists gave cubans hundreds of billions in tanks and artillery to rape angola. Cuba were just social-fascist mercenary colonizers backed by largest neocolonial power. Thats why the cuban colonizer mercenaries were kicked out as soon as social fascist entity died.
>>2757199To more clear. If the Social fascist wunderwaffen is indeed the best thing about cuba military, then they are doomed
>>2757203>social fascist??? anti-tankie anti-cuba zoomer speak?
>>2757213I will simplify for you, fascist. Cuba doesnt have social fascist entity to give them arms anymore so what you said originally makes no fucking sense.
>>2757216No, this is pure /pol/ contrarianism.
>>2757215>>2758278I read the Beijing thing and all it had to say about Cuba was that they sent troops into Angola lol what are you on.
You know Angola was a slave state until Cuba helped liberate it right? The Aperthied South africans weren't fighting to bring McDonald's buddy….
The energy crisis makes it pretty obvious that Trump wants to topple the Cuban government or at the very least pull a Maduro once they are done with Iran, I mean he repeatedly said so, most likely just killing the leadership wouldn't work so this means boots on the ground. Cuba has nothing like Iran in terms of military hardware however, I don't think they will be able to pull a meaningfully successful resistance. It's still a 10 millions people island so it will necessitates a lot of manpower and efforts to secure which means as long as the Iran war is going Cuba will hold, but once it's over we have to prepare for the fact that they will fall… Unless China does something extremely uncharacteristic and give them a shit ton of support but that's hopium.
>>2758344can it be said, however, that it's HIERARCHICALIST to "help someone get liberated"?
Cuba is finished, give it a rest and focus on the problems of your country.
>>2758352Marx sent congrats to the American upper class when they won the war against the south. Il take armed communist troops in my country over slavery.
>>2758352Started the making up words phase too early
>>2758535
The USA economically is forced into constant foreign wars, it is a imperialist power, even Trump who was larping as a "isolatist" realized that American capital can only dominate through the means of war.
Its not the politicians, its the system of capitalism that forces them into war.
>>2759390Cuba in the cold war seems COMFY for Autistic people like I, frankly.
coherent monolithic worldview, organization, bureocracy, paperwork…
>>2759391>©NoCastro.comCommit seppuku agent jones
>>2759819Why? I posted it as a GOOD thing.
Cuba DOES have those notebooks, this is a fact and you're an unchaste pig if you deny it.
but I LIKE the cuban system
>>2700465The SS Leftypol, a Wolff-class frigate?
>Reuters: Russian oil tanker enters Cuba's exclusive economic zone, according to ship tracking data.
Some good news
>>2760358Can't believe Putin didn't cuck out
>Trump remarked that he has no objection to a tanker delivering oil to Cuba, even if it comes from Russia.
>Trump noted he prefers permitting it, no matter if it’s from Russia or someone else.
>Trump remarked that having a Russian oil tanker deliver fuel to Cuba is not an issue for the U.S.
>>2760384THEN WHAT THE FUCK WAS THIS FOR??
WHAT IS THE PLAN??
WHAT IS THE GOAL??
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
>>2760892JDPON at it again
>>2760892maybe evidence that they really weren't bullshitting the country in some boiling the frog op re:the war in iran and really thought they'd be done by now. At this point if Cuba collapsed it'd be a tax on resources to take and occupy 10 million people that don't have any strategic resources when resources are in short supply already for the iran war. pissing off russia doing piracy on their tankers has a different feeling of cost to it now vs before the war a couple months ago. the time table is messed up so they'll get back to cuba later, is what they are likely telling themselves.
>>2760384donald cuck strikes again!
>>2760915>is what they are likely telling themselvesYep. They never allow for the law of unintended consequences so they have to keep making rash judgements on the fly.
>>2760358crazy how darth putler the right wing dick tator was the only one to step up on this meanwhile all the latam "leftist" goverments cucked out
>>2777462
shut up man.
Trump says hes gonna invade cuba next after Iran, lets see if that happens.
Cuba Deregulates Agricultural Trade to Fight Chronic Food Shortages
<Cuba is opening its agricultural distribution channels to private companies and producers in an effort to boost domestic production, as the nation currently imports more than 80% of its food. The government is relaxing longstanding regulations on the sale and distribution of agricultural and forestry products to reduce centralized state control and expand the private sector influence. Breaking the State Monopoly
<The new regulations grant micro, small, and medium sized enterprises, cooperatives, self employed individuals, and landowners the direct right to distribute and sell agricultural products. This allows private operators to enter wholesale and retail markets without navigating the state owned intermediary Acopio, which has historically dominated the collection and distribution of crops. Under the updated rules, state procurement units will only receive products if the producer has not already secured an independent final buyer, effectively forcing the state to compete with private entities for the first time.A Response to Productivity Failure
<This reform addresses a severe productivity crisis where, despite 79% of the country six million hectares being state owned, output continues to decline. Centralized inefficiency has led to massive waste; for instance, some cooperatives report losing up to 80% of their harvest because state processing plants lack the equipment to handle it or fail to collect it before it spoils. The move also attempts to solve distribution bottlenecks caused by a crippling fuel shortage exacerbated by the U.S. oil embargo by shifting logistics to private actors who may have more flexible means of importing fuel.Decentralized Pricing and Market Distortions
<Management of food pricing is shifting toward decentralized contracting committees at the provincial and municipal levels, led by local governors and mayors. While these committees can now negotiate prices based on local production costs and supply, economist Pedro Monreal warns that the state still maintains final authority over price caps. This continued intervention risks distorting the market and suppressing the incentives needed for producers to scale their operations meaningfully.https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/5/9/a-year-of-resistance-cubas-private-sector-faces-trumps-oil-blockade >>2764503avg Russians have a positive outlook on Cubans and Venezuelans as opposed to avg latams who turn into little hitlerites when confronted with either in public
>>2808277everyone knows Cuba is socdem, you need to manufacture more advanced bait on this issue
>>2808277why do you shit up every thread?
>>2698776I'm donating my copy of Dialogue with Stalin to Cuba, hope it helps
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