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The food rationing system in communist Cuba has collapsed
Posted on 3/24/24 at 5:48 pm
Posted on 3/24/24 at 5:48 pm
Looks like communism isn't working or is it they just aren't doing communism correctly?
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I am shocked to learn the Biden administration lied
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Cuba on the Brink
Last weekend, demonstrators filled the streets of at least four Cuban cities in rare protests. They called for food and electricity provisions amid widespread shortages throughout the country. Some shouted “patria y vida,” or “homeland and life,” a chant that emerged during the last major anti-government marches in July 2021.
Authorities cracked down hard on the 2021 demonstrations, and many protesters remain jailed even today. The current protests saw an unconfirmed number of demonstrators arrested, according to human rights groups. On Sunday, officials distributed rice, milk, and sugar in one of the cities that saw demonstrations, perhaps an acknowledgment that participants’ complaints were legitimate. It is unclear whether the protests will continue.
Cuba’s economy has not fully recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic and in fact has dramatically worsened since the 2021 protests. Currency reform that year led to continually high inflation, and communist Havana has stumbled in attempts to open its controlled economy to the private sector.
The Biden administration has also maintained some Trump-era economic restrictions on Cuba and delayed plans to build links between the Cuban and U.S. private sectors amid congressional opposition. Meanwhile, Cuba’s historic economic sponsors—including Venezuela, China, and Russia—have been unable or unwilling to sweep in with bailouts.
The result is that Cuba is experiencing its worst economic crisis since the years following the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, its then-sponsor. The ongoing turmoil has spurred mass emigration: In the two-year period ending in September 2023, more than 4 percent of Cuba’s population either arrived in the United States or applied for asylum in Mexico, according to the Washington Office on Latin America.
Cuba’s government often blames its economic troubles on U.S. sanctions. In 2018, a United Nations agency estimated that the U.S. embargo on Cuba—imposed in 1962—had cost Cuba’s economy some $130 billion. The Trump administration took further punitive steps, restricting remittance flows between Cuba and the United States and designating Cuba a state sponsor of terrorism, which complicated the country’s integration in international markets.
The fresh demonstrations show that Havana’s role in the economic crisis has become more central in the public eye, University of Miami historian and Cuba expert Michael Bustamante told Foreign Policy. “Cuban citizens, more and more, don’t buy the Cuban government pointing its fingers outside, and they are looking squarely at their own officials to take ownership and responsibility,” he said.
Whether negative public opinion can lead to political change is another question. U.S. proponents of economically isolating Cuba have long argued that misery on the ground could bring down the communist government. But if the post-Cold War shock of the 1990s is any indication, Cuba’s political system may be able to ride out the current conditions.
Cuban policymakers have for decades resisted loosening the state-controlled economy, only moving slowly to do so in recent years. Last December, Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz admitted that Havana had not allowed the economy to diversify sufficiently. But he did not present a vision for how this diversification would occur and instead simply removed price controls. That move ultimately worsened household suffering.
U.S. President Joe Biden, for his part, has yet to fulfill the campaign promises he made on Cuba policy. In 2020, Biden pledged that he would roll back the Trump-era policies “that inflicted harm on Cubans and their families.” Yet he has only partially followed through. The president’s changed stance is apparently aimed at appeasing Cuba hawks, whether in the U.S. Congress or the electorate.
The Biden administration’s approach to Cuba stands in contrast to its policy on Venezuela, where the United States has lifted sanctions that were part of Trump’s so-called maximum pressure strategy. Although other factors—such as major oil reserves and upcoming elections—were at play in Venezuela, administration officials also recognized the harm that sanctions caused to civilians.
Latin American leaders have called on Washington to fully reverse Trump-era restrictions in Cuba, too, but have so far been unsuccessful. Cuban policymakers continue to be key drivers of citizens’ economic pain. But Washington also bears responsibility, Bustamante said. Current U.S. policy “has fed a mass migration that you’d think the Biden administration would be doing everything to try to stop.”
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I am shocked to learn the Biden administration lied
Posted on 3/24/24 at 5:51 pm to stout
Public service is no longer about public service. It's what I can bank financially while I'm in office.
Posted on 3/24/24 at 6:02 pm to stout
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Authorities cracked down hard on the 2021 demonstrations, and many protesters remain jailed even today.
That part sounds oddly familiar, does J6 come to mind?
Posted on 3/24/24 at 6:03 pm to stout
If they go through with electrification of our economy we'll have food rationing here.
Posted on 3/24/24 at 6:11 pm to stout
Biden has a plan, he's gonna allow 1 million Cuban immigrants into the country, teach them to be farmers, and give them the state of Iowa.
Posted on 3/24/24 at 6:14 pm to Barneyrb
We would NEVER do things like this in the USA! That would be a threat to (D)emocracy!!!
Posted on 3/24/24 at 6:14 pm to udtiger
quote:No, dems aren't super fond of Cuban immigrants.
More "migrants"
Posted on 3/24/24 at 6:19 pm to blueboy
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More "migrants"
No, dems aren't super fond of Cuban immigrants
Odd that the Venezuelans are welcomed with open arms
Posted on 3/24/24 at 6:21 pm to stout
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I am shocked to learn the Biden administration lied
Biden would not do such a thing. Besides, a group of people I know were there in February and mentioned nothing about the food rationing.
Posted on 3/24/24 at 6:23 pm to blueboy
Dems want liberal dem voters. Cubans do not vote the right way. So everyone is welcome if you vote for dems. Cubans are on their “white list”. Cannot have that.
Posted on 3/24/24 at 6:27 pm to stout
Communism is a proven success, except everywhere it has been tried
Posted on 3/24/24 at 6:28 pm to stout
Eased restrictions on Venezuela because Biden needs their oil. Cuba has nothing to offer, besides some beautiful women.
Posted on 3/24/24 at 6:28 pm to stout
Cuba just didn’t do communism the right way.
Next time it will really work.
Next time it will really work.
Posted on 3/24/24 at 6:31 pm to stout
The common denominator is always ummm..... Human nature.
That is why Capitalism works so well. Greed is trackable and predictable. Capitalism also has a level of framework more embodied by the public as a whole as opposed to a select few where power is concentrated.
That is not to say we dont have our own problems, we do, but it is much more predictable, trackable and MUCH easier to deal with at the individual level.
That is why Capitalism works so well. Greed is trackable and predictable. Capitalism also has a level of framework more embodied by the public as a whole as opposed to a select few where power is concentrated.
That is not to say we dont have our own problems, we do, but it is much more predictable, trackable and MUCH easier to deal with at the individual level.
Posted on 3/24/24 at 6:33 pm to stout
What’s the obesity and diabetes rate in Cuba?
Posted on 3/24/24 at 6:34 pm to stout
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Looks like communism isn't working or is it they just aren't doing communism correctly?
That's communist communism. American communism will be much better.
Posted on 3/24/24 at 6:49 pm to ronricks
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33.1% of adult (aged 18 years and over) women and 21.8% of adult men are living with obesity. Cuba's obesity prevalence is higher than the regional average of 30.7% for women but is lower than the regional average of 22.8% for men.
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