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The truth on the other hand, is the unshakable reality that has driven every sanction, every sabotage attempt, and every assassination plot since 1959: Cuba is a threat only to an idea. It is a threat to the imperial doctrine that a small, poor nation in America’s ‘backyard’ must not be allowed to choose socialism, to provide free healthcare and education, and homes to live without the permission of Washington.
For this sin of self-determination, the crime of building a society where capital is not god, Cuba has been punished with the most enduring economic siege in modern history. This is not an ‘embargo’, which I consider to be a sterile, political term. It is a total blockade, designed to constrict and cripple. It is enforced by a plethora of laws with names like the Helms-Burton Act, which terrorises foreign companies from trading with the Island and allows the US to seize ships in international waters. Its goal, as US politician Robert Torricelli once admitted, was to…
‘Wreak havoc’.

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[-] DiscoAssBlazer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 113 points 5 days ago
[-] Revolutionary_Apples@lemmy.ml 37 points 4 days ago

The fact that there has not been a unified Latin American defence coalition against the US formed is crazy to me. Us in the USA want (and more desperately need) liberation from our leadership.

[-] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 30 points 4 days ago

Isn't that why usa/cia do so much to keep them disablized?

[-] Star 15 points 4 days ago

B-b-b-bingo

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 10 points 4 days ago

Wanting and having the will to do what needs doing are different things.

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[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

The fact that there has not been a unified Latin American defence coalition against the US formed is crazy to me.

There has been one. It's just composed of imperial powers and their corporate proxies.

The defense coalition existed to intercede against slave revolts, anti-colonial nationalism, and Communist uprisings. It has been very successful.

Us in the USA want (and more desperately need) liberation from our leadership.

Join the club

[-] procapra@lemmy.ml 83 points 5 days ago
[-] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago

"One of". This is US history we're talking about - the bar is in orbit.

[-] procapra@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago
[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 57 points 5 days ago

"People in socialist countries starve because we starve them"

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[-] Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz 62 points 5 days ago

And because all of this shit they have been throwing on the Cuba, they can claim socialism doesn’t work.

[-] Riverside@reddthat.com 27 points 5 days ago

And yet Cuba has higher life expectancy than the US lmfao

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[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 59 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I would say resisting 66 years of unceasing hybrid warfare from the biggest superpower in the world right next door is pretty good sign of resilient and working system.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

Small Island nation resists the world's largest and most advanced military for 70 years. Develops state of the art health care system, modernizes energy and transportation, becomes a global tourist hotspot, all under US blockade

Socialism doesn't work

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[-] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 27 points 5 days ago

Ebough damage has been done in these last decades. This is dangerously becoming a full blown USA genocide of the Cuban people. It's unacceptable.

[-] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 34 points 5 days ago

I had no problem with Cuba. Nice place to visit in winter. No Americans.

[-] amide@lemmy.ml 43 points 5 days ago

I hope and pray that the Cuban people stand together and persevere. May this be the final nail in the empire of evil.

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[-] Astrius@lemmy.ml 58 points 5 days ago

It is essentially genocide.

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[-] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 16 points 4 days ago

What the US is doing right now? It goes further back...

[-] The_Sasswagon@beehaw.org 33 points 5 days ago

I think, based on conversations I have with people in real life and read online, that the people in the US haven't challenged the 60 years of propaganda about Cuba, and believe it a totalitarian nightmare dictatorship.

I have a close friend who went to Cuba for ecological research (did you know they still have intact reefs) a few years ago, and when they would tell people they were going to Cuba, the most common reaction was a fearful "that's scary" and a confused, almost accusatory "why".

I don't think they realize that everyone else can just go to Cuba, it's only the blue US passport and a bunch of old white guys, and probably now more Cuban Americans, with their fear of communism and land reform stopping them from enjoying a very nice bottle of state owned rum and an experience of how other people live.

I'm glad other countries have been stepping up to help the people there, the Cuban people deserve happy and comfortable lives, and we clearly don't have the appetite to stop starving them of that right now. Until we shake that propagandized view, I don't imagine that will change either.

[-] peoflor@lemmy.ml 17 points 5 days ago

For those who say it's a hoax, look up videos of any Cuban on YouTube and turn on the subtitles.

[-] nukeforyou@lemmy.zip 20 points 5 days ago

Worse than what Israel is doing to Palestine?

[-] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 34 points 5 days ago

Not yet, but it's a similar action with a similar goal

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[-] choui4@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago

How the USA destroyed Cuba with economic sanctions

https://youtu.be/zIOw6fSOJI4

did you know that, during the Covid pandemic, the usa refused to allow countries to sell respirator parts to Cuba? Hundreds died choking on their own bile, meanwhile Cuban doctors traveled the world administer free vaccines to poor countries.

https://pca.st/episode/b9afd925-9da1-48c9-a227-d9186df15dc5

https://pca.st/episode/44db48f6-45f7-4d79-92a0-6ad596da8c6b

https://pca.st/episode/6e3f6be7-a968-4126-83ab-9dbb68278628

How the Cuban communist government changed their entire food system overnight because of sanctions

https://pca.st/episode/0b790d39-e5c7-4d9c-9633-b58690596178

How Britain plotted to spread homophobia in Cuba

https://www.declassifieduk.org/how-britain-plotted-to-spread-homophobia-in-cuba/

Here's a REAL Cuban telling you what trump has done/doing

https://pca.st/episode/5b53a084-d12e-4e76-ad85-7d4820fedbc8

Hasan on Cuba

https://youtu.be/krpC2WzXUkY

A Cuban, on Cuba: https://peertube.world/w/eh7KeUBRpKVWjfBfFRh1qU

All of American media is a psyop designed to give well meaning people an excuse to do immeasurable harm via the american military

https://youtu.be/gvxJVyvEbv0

https://guerrillahistory.libsyn.com/stand-with-cuba-against-the-state-sponsors-of-terrorism-list-w-calla-walsh-jorge-rocha

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