Here’s what you need to know about the US embargo on Cuba
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- Since the country witnessed the uprising of thousands of Cubans in the Caribbean island, one of the issues much talked about on social media and by politicians is the U.S. embargo on Cuba. So, what exactly is it, and does it in fact play a role in what is currently happening within the island?
According to these experts, does the embargo have zero impact on Cubans? That's completely in contrary to all of the evidence that says otherwise. Their government may be responsible for the lion's share of the suffering, but the embargo absolutely exacerbates it. If these "experts" say otherwise, that requires some proof instead of just taking their word for it.
The embargo should be lifted. If you trade with cuba, you will be sanctioned as well
@@josemartymario3137 How many sanctions Spain (The principal Cuban's Partner) has? In fact, how many sanctions Spain, France, Germany, China, Russia, Netherlands, Mexico, Brazil, Honduras and others have? In which companies? When were they input?
“they can trade with russia”
blocking cuba from trade with the worlds largest economy which is only 90 miles away and telling them to trade with a failing economy 10,770 miles away is so stupid not to mention expensive
It's not a blockade, dude, Cuba literally can trade with anyone but the US, and even in this case, there's a McDonalds and a lot of brands and boxes from the US.
@@marcydiaz6950 And then US can sanction the country that traded with Cuba!
So... you're saying that communism requires a free market to function?
Market-based system. There is no free market in reality.
@@gabemendoza1052 Freedom is an illusion.
There are two types of governments in the world. There are only Il-Liberal and Liberal Capitalist Governments. The latter is what made the world and the West great. The former is what raised countries like Russia, Vietnam and China out of poverty and into strong powerful nations. The former is also what the Republicans practice and try to impose on the US.
Where does a free market exist?
Cuban can manage very well without the U.S.A bloqueo. They have proven how efficient they are. They learned to be self sufficient. They have great Medical schools. Great Scientists that have developed many vaccines in spite of the bloqueo. They were doing just fine before the pandemic hit them and the Miami based anti Cubans saw an opportunity to get involved with their dirty dollars ... despicable
The news is lying, so why is that if other countries do business with Cuba, those countries will be penalized as well. Please explain?
we only speak us propaganda language here
no fact checking
@@skellurip The good old newspaper was more reliable then these "experts"
Which countries have been penalized? The main trade partner of Cuba is SPAIN, not even China, is SPAIN, an US ally, where are the sanctions? Which spanish companies have been penalized?
@@Smethells2023 Which companies has been sanctioned? What are their names? Because the own cubans say that they see many products from the US, and most of the products that are on their supermarkets are from Spain and Vietnam.
Cuba is free to trade with the rest of the world, but if the company trades with cuba, it cannot trade with the U.S for 180 days, so companies much rather go for the US to trade with, which is why the Embargo affects cuba, still, these independent people have balls of steel and still prevailed with a self sufficient economy
than why not just make a different distribution company
even if the embargo is not to blame it still must be lifted
Why? Let them commerce with Russia.
@Sp00ky Socialist M-26-7 Nothing stops them from commercing with China.
It wouldn't matter. The US tried that about 10 years ago but any kind of trading with the US is vehemently in contradiction with the idea of Castro's Revolution. Acknowledging any business with the US would be a complete 180 in their ideology. It's an internal embargo more than anything.
Let them do business with China and Russia 😅😅
@@SalveMonesvol1. russia is not communist if that’s your reasoning. 2. look at the insane distance there. blocking cuba from trade with the worlds largest economy which is only 90 miles away and telling them to trade with a failing economy 10,770 miles away is so stupid not to mention expensive😭
It's not about trade....it's about Liberty.
It's about trade to the Cubans, something else to America that defined itself as liberty.
@@gabemendoza1052 no it isn't. The People we're yelling liberty!
Liberty.
@@Garapetsa
One half did, fully sponsored by American interest. The other half want free trade with the supposedly free world because of the lack of food and medicine.
@@gabemendoza1052 so..it's about marxism.
Cuba gets medicine and other stuff from Russia and china.
Is Cuba who impose the embargo on his own people. Cuban government recently announced after the protests, that Cuban Americans can import Medicine and Food all they want without paying taxes until December. So, they were blocking us from importing food and medicine. I, as a Cuban American born in Cuba and lived there for 30 years, I can not travel with an American passport, however, I have to pay and absurd amount of money ($500) for a Cuban passport that expires every two years. I have been in Cuba only twice since I left, my briefcase got ripped at the airport and they basically stole some of the stuff I had for a family member, on top of that, they treat you like if you are the enemy. Socialism does not work. I was a cook and I worked for a few government hotels, there is not control of anything, employees steal money from the rental rooms, rental cars, restaurants, it is a total disaster because there is not an owner, no one cares. Prostitution is what actually attracts many tourist, you can basically have sex with an underage an nothing happens. The list goes on and on and on. I could be the whole day denouncing atrocities, but I live in a capitalist country where I actually have to work and be responsible.
Us embargo doesn't affect cuba at all. They are free to deal with the rest of the world
Idiot
@@sikenah103
That's why our country is screwed, because of people like them.
Is Cuba who impose the embargo on his own people. Cuban government recently announced after the protests, that Cuban Americans can import Medicine and Food all they want without paying taxes until December. I, as a Cuban American born in Cuba and lived there for 30 years, I can not travel with an American passport, however, I have to pay and absurd amount of money ($500) for a Cuban passport that expires every two years. I have been in Cuba only twice since I left, my briefcase got ripped at the airport and they basically stole some of the stuff I had for a family member, on top of that, they treat you like if you are the enemy. Socialism does not work. I was a cook and I worked for a few government hotels, there is not control of anything, employees steal money from the rental rooms, rental cars, restaurants, it is a total disaster because there is not an owner, no one cares. Prostitution is what actually attracts many tourist, you can basically have sex with a 16 years old an nothing happens. The list goes on and on and on. I could be the whole day denouncing atrocities, but I live in a capitalist country where I actually have to work and be responsible.
@@robemd2002 how do you feel about the CIA poisoning the pig population ? Operation Mongoose?
@@LJRoss-zv8hw Who the hell cares what happened when I wasn’t even born. I’m talking about the present. Cuba is a communist country that exploited its people with the excuse of an embargo that it is a total lie, and the whole world is watching what those dictators criminals are doing right now to the people.
Fidel is gone. The remnants of his junta must follow.
Cubans in Florida don't want to admit that they're wrong about the embargo
The reason why the properties were taken without compensation is because they were acquired through colonialism/imperalism, and US companies refused to refine oil, leaving cuba no choice.
Why are they wearing American flags?
Because they hate communism silly
They aren't wearing flags, they're wearing clothes with the American flag print. Cubans look at America as the "land of milk and honey ". We represent freedom and every Cuban who has escaped appropriates what they gained in the USA, unlike many from South America who want to change this country into Cuba.
Same reason the Hong Kong protesters wear them, so you Americans would actually sympathize with them and intervene against their authoritarian regime, unfortunately we're way past that era where the US entangles itself in unwinnable wars for political gains...
Cuz dey can?
@pep Ok white snowflake
This is such blatant propaganda, you should be ashamed of your selves. Some news room
Agreed. The fact they can lie so much about country while not understanding the consequences of American foreign policy makes me really sad for the Cubans. They want to do their own government on how they want to do it, yet, they are put down by capitalist nations like the US where they can never experiment
Visited cuba recently for the first time, their airports are in very bad condition. Some sinks in toilet were missing tap handles. Imagine if that's the condition of an airport how bad is the rest of the system. Cuban deserves better future and better leadership.
I would love to visit Cuba
You should,its beautiful. I went to Cayo Coco.
It’s about their “FREEDOM”
Maybe I missed something. But decades ago when we put in the economic embargoe on Cuba, I thought it meant that we were denying help to and refusing to prop up the illegitimate junta that is brutalizing the Cuban people. Isn't that what it means or is supposed to be doing?
That’s about right. Cuba is free to trade with literally the entire world. The government is so bad they can’t manage to run the country. It’s not that the US isn’t giving Cuba food and medicine.
@@mikegrace2819 Thanks for the information. It's always good to check just in case I missed something. I remember that, at least in part, it was our economic embargo on Cuba that caused the USSR to send a huge number of rubles each year to keep propping up the Cuban dictatorship. That probably helped speed up the downfall of the Soviet Union. I wish that it had toppled the Cuban dictatorship as well. But short of war, weakening it is the next best thing. And plain just not supporting it is OK by me too.
It is. These people are trying to rewrite history and justify trying to support a failed system of dictators and murderers.
@pep no it doesn’t. America has problems, sure, but it’s nowhere near as bad as communism… yet.
lol at using junta in this context
Can you do a follow up about what you think we *shouldn’t* know about the embargo?
They want freedom
The 2 million people locked up in America prisons and jails want freedom. Many of them don't belong there. Take care of home first.
-CIA agent
The Cuban people do want freedom; that's why the US is trying to subvert the will of the Cuban people.
Those who have never lived in a country where Socialism OR Communism governs the citizens of the country, have absolutely NO IDEA what they are talking about when they claim that Socialism and Communism are the same. I have first-hand knowledge and experience of both. I also have a degree in world history and political science. Please stop espousing misinformation. CUBA IS A COMMUNIST COUNTRY. CUBA IS NOT A SOCIALIST COUNTRY. SOCIALISM DOES NOT LEAD TO COMMUNISM. The lack of knowledge and the righteous way that many speak without any first hand knowledge of things is why this world is in trouble. We are baiting for the next leader to come along who will scream the loudest and proclaim what they say is true, just like Hitler did when the Germans felt lost and demoralized after WWI, and latched on to the first loud-mouthed, witty, public speaker, who did nothing but lie at the top of his lungs and make a country without a strong leader at the time, believe the garbage he claimed as truth. We continue to ignore history and facts and because of that, we will inevitably tempt history to repeat itself. Please crack open a book. Don't go online. Find a local library with history books written 50 years ago or more, that will be a good start if you want to educate yourself on geopolitics and the like. SMH
Why do bring the EMBARGO now, to change the focus of what is happen in Cuba right now? What we need to keep our focus now in that the Cubans found a way to let the world know what is happening in the island since 1959. All the abuse that the government has done, thanks to the internet the people can show how the Cuban government have the county in silence but no the social media every body can see how living in this beautiful island have been he'll since Castro.
China or North Korea might help Cuba like it does to Venezuela
Communism is the system of selfish it seems. They won't help because they don't want to.
@@googleisevil8958 then why did we have Cuban missile crisis? USSR happened to help Cuba. USSR also use to trained with china and north korea
@@theill3stgoblinking693 Oh they'll help when it's about screwing over the US but when it comes to helping the people of the Cuba live their lives, they'll ignore all that. It's not important it seems.
@@googleisevil8958 sounds like the US and NATO they will help the people when it's convenient for them and then they will also leave them hanging
did ever heard china-soviet split?
Good thing the world is waking up and learning to recognize propaganda when they see it.
Freedom for cuba
Freedom and Democracy for Cuba🇺🇲🤝🇨🇺
America fight for its freedom
Cuba can fight for theirs
Cuba is a beautiful place I had to leave at the age of three with my Parents in 1963. I have never gone back hopefully things will change for the better freedom for the Cuban people I think it’s about time.
You can go theirs flights to Cuba in Mexico I’ve been twice CUBAN ARE HAPPY PEOPLE I CANT BELIEVE ALL THE LIES THEY SPREAD
@@joestrummer8517 Great, glad they are doing fine then.
Cubans scream "Libertad " freedom..American democrats say no you don't want freedom its the embargo that's your problem...THIS IS RICH..AMERICANS TELLING CUBANS WHAT THEY WANT..SOUNDS ABOUT RIGHT
they want the embargo lifted so they can make a sh[t ton of money. them commies are done with communism but still are commies which is why we dont help them because they are fuking COMMIES now if they become a democratic republic nation i have very little doubt that we woulddnt help them we muerica their commies you imbecil
I'm Cuban-American. The embargo is an excuse the Communist regime in Cuba uses. U.S. should leave the emabrgo as-is and all other countries should follow suit and not support the Cuban government in any way.
@@marla591 should keep them suffer am i right
Bravo! finally someone talks truth on the news!
It's not an uprising, stop with this propaganda
It streams are allowing Mexican immigrants in but the people who are actually fleeing a tyrannical dictatorship under communist regime aren't allowed because this administration is all about communism and you can't have people fleeing from communism and telling other people what's going to happen if they implement it.
But isn't that what the US embargo was supposed to do. That's why it's been there for the past 63 years. If it wasn't to blame why would the US keep it placed on cuba. Also explain what mechanism in communism caused the shortage in food and medicine. Similarly suppose the Cuban people want to keep the state owned industries but want a Democratic Government or simply want to manage it themselves collectively. Would the US embargo still remain on them. Likewise if the cuban government becomes more repressive but cedes but officially abandoned communism in favor of Capitalism is the US going to keep the embargo even though the government remains repressive as ever.
I talked to a main Cuba independent media, they said “90 % of Cuba people hope remittance restrict lifted “, again the remittance cut off really hurts people, not the regime.
You have no clue
WRONG
If y’all really think communism and socialism is to blame for cubas failures and downfall you’re naive and uneducated
The way he had to look at his script 2:16
That dress is so inappropriate 😓🤦🏾♀️🙄
What’s wrong with the dress.....?
Shut up gay
trade washington dc for Cuba anyday.
Please don't say that, you do not know the levels of atrocities and murders that have taken place in Cuba to keep the people subjugated and oppressed. The Human Rights violations alone that have taken place in Cuba since 1959, are enough to make any U.S. citizen think twice about making statements like these. No country or political ideal is perfect. No U.S. political party is perfect either but what has taken place in Cuba is something every citizen of the United States should fear and work together so that it never happens on our soil.
If the US embargo of Cuba is not doing anything then get rid of it.
Mentally challenged people: eNd muH enbArGo!!!1 (so the dictatorship remains in power. That's what I really want)
Normal people: End the dictatorship, so the embargo ends.
@charles
"What is really mentally challenged is to believe that a policy that has failed for over 50 years is suddenly going to succeed now!"
Like Socialism? 😂
"The embargo should end"
Yes, it should. All the dictatorship needs to do is (1) resign, (2) call for democratic elections and (3) surrender to justice for their crimes. That will end the embargo immediately. The thing is, you want the embargo to end so the dictatorship can continue to oppress with impunity.
time and time again you've shown that all your narrative about democracy and human rights is garbage. You support your socialist dictators and turn your backs on their victims.
No country should support Cuba in any way. The embargo should remain indefinitely until their is an overthrow of the Communist leaders and a dismantling of the entire Cuban political system. Every Cuban political figure still alive from 1959 should stand trial for Human Rights violations and be charged accordingly.
It is illegal, period.
fuk them commins they can go get help from their commie friends
They can trade with any other country
No they can not…
Cuba can trade with any country but those countries that trade with cubs will penalized by united states
here quote from reuters
"Trump also activated Title III of the 1996 Helms-Burton Act, which allows Americans to sue U.S. and international companies profiting from property that was nationalized or confiscated after Cuba’s 1959 Revolution.American Airlines, Melia Hotels International, Amazon Inc and French lender Societe Generale are among the companies that have been slapped with lawsuits under the Helms-Burton Act, which they are contesting in court."
"Many Western banks have long refused Cuba-related business for fear of running afoul of U.S. sanctions and facing hefty fines, as well as the country’s poor credit history."
cuban cigars, thats all I care about
You give a headline and then say nothing. That's that democratic news for you
Against capitalism. Cries about not receiving benefits from capitalist nation.
So much babbling on UA-cam regardless of the subject.
COMMUNISM AND CASTRO
That's what they get for voting for trump Obama ended the embargo they hated him for it voted for trump he reinstated the embargo hahahaha 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 that's what you get
The embargo from the beginning has only been about trade not about food or money. Yet there's a shortage of food. How is that possible when they can grow their own, get exports from other countries and have millions to pay for it from yearly US economic relief? The government trades it, rations it, keeps the money, etc. You're so foolish.
@Kevin Dawe Communism fails.
We could handle the Cuba and Haiti problem within a week send military forces full on like we did in desert storm....I'll tell you the only reason why we're not doing it no oil And not much benefit to ourselves...Pretty disgusting really
Does sending military forces sound like liberty to you. If so you're probably a Republican.
We already did that . We overthrew saddam Hussein and Gadaffi in the Middle East to spread “freedom” and democracy. Look at it now
People like you are why Cuba should be entitled to keep atom bombs.
We need to take in Cubans NOW
I'm Cuban and we need to support them rising up against their oppressors. No need to take anyone in. Cubans need to finally take the bull by the horns. Enough is enough.
Consumerism
PATRIA Y VIDA, LONG LIVE CHRIST THE KING!
..still parroting the same lies 😂😂
🆘🆘🆘🆘🆘intervención internacional en cuba comunista🆘🆘
Right wing propaganda.
Right wing facts and truth
What part because you can go talk to actual Cubans who fled they are still alive
Or a murderous dictatorship that has cut internet, electricity and water to dissenting citizens and shot peaceful protesters in the streets of their own neighborhoods.
They really said the embargo has nothing to do with the problems 😂 when they have blocked food and medicine. Like Maduro said KKK USA
@@travismiles5885 1. Didn't say it was a paradise 2. When your wife is ready to go with me.
Literally installing a decent government shouldn't be this difficult they're ready for change
Es Delito de Lesa Humanidad todo cuanto atente contra la vida, la libertad, los derechos y la dignidad de las personas… y los bloqueos son una de las formas de las guerras más alevosas, ilegales e ilegítimas, del capitalismo aunque contraten o inventen ideólogos, tratados internacionales y legislaciones para camuflarse.
El bloqueo es un crimen de lesa humanidad - Radio La Primerisima
Ciba Libre'!
Zilbwit
Communism needs capitalism support. Got it.
Cuba is an island nation, needs to trade for food because it lacks the landmass to grow it. It traded w/ the soviet union until it was illegally dissolved (see the referendum for the preservation of the union), and now needs to trade with other crop-producing countries to survive. Many corporations would actually be happy to trade with cuba, but I guess that the "free market" isn't actually the goal. The actual goal being, of course, to re-install a right wing puppet dictator and to force the country into economic submission, to make the US bourgeois even wealthier off the backs of the third world. What a lack of theory does to a mf.
0:27 tankies be like:
"the CIA uyghurs they glow in the dark you can see them when they fund counterrevolutions"
What is the chance this was funded by CIA?
Give sources
🆘🆘🆘🆘🆘intervención en cuba comunista🆘🆘🆘🆘🆘
🆘🆘🆘🆘🆘secuestró en cuba comunista🆘🆘🆘🆘🆘
🆘🆘🆘🆘🆘intervención CUBA COMUNISTA🆘🆘🆘🆘🆘
keep embargo !!!!!!!
Finally some rationale.
It's time for Cuba to become the 51st state. It would be the best thing for Cuban citizens and for the US.
yea a dream world
WRONG
Awesome indeed but this would piss off all the Puerto Rican’s lol, our own countrymen who want to be a State first. I agree, to some extent like making them as our free state but they are an unofficial state.
us don't even want puerto rico as their state lol
What’s next Mexico? Conquest isn’t easy imperialists