Do Cuba’s Protests Spell the End for its Communist Government?
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Earlier this week, protests broke out in Cuba over shortages of essential items and electricity blackouts. Cuba is blaming the US over the shortages, as the trade embargo reaches it's 63rd year. But, can these protests bring down the government?
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00:00 - Introduction
01:12 - Cuba's Economic Crisis
03:39 - US Embargo
05:12 - Cuba Government Policies
07:14 - Sponsored Content
wait 4% of the country emigrated in just 2 years?! That's catastrophic
Similar to how many Afghans fled Afghanistan when it was under US occupation
@@amazingamx1255 Under US Occupation 25% of Afghanistan's population returned.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghan_refugees
The embargo is terrible
@@Carthodon more left than returned.
@@amazingamx1255 Is what you need believe to validate your desire to hate the US. The population of Afghanistan grew dramatically during US occupation.
Almost forgot about Cuba entirely, they’ve been extremely quiet in recent years
They were ok before a few years but since the last few years they’re having an unprecedented economic crisis.
We've heard a lot about them during the pandemic, when they developed their own vaccine.
As a Canadian I went there for vacation and buy their cigars.
@@EroUsagiSama oh yeah the protests against american sactions that western media was using to say they were protesting the government.😂 this channel is the same garbage.
No they haven't, the western media just doesn't cover them at all unless sensational protests happen
I will never get tired of using Minecraft items to illustrate real world recourses
This is definitely a generational thing
The US does not have an Ambassador in Cuba. Rather, Ziff is the Charge D'Affairs. I know it sounds like semantics, but it diplomatic terms, there is a distinction.
Just like we have a trade embargo, NOT a blockade.
Yeah, that was something bewildering. " What do you mean you don't want to trade with Cuba? We demand you trade with Cuba!!!"" says the UN, angrily stomping its feet.
@@babayaga6376 It's not that the US doesn't trade with Cuba, but that it also bans anyone who does trade with Cube from trading with the US, and any vessels that go to Cuba from entering a US port for 180 days.
@@_xeereWe don't ban anyone from trading with Cuba that is a lie. Regarding US policy, Cuba should focus on their own actions. We have the right to do whatever we want with the relationships we have. We don't want connections to the communist island and there are rules in place to ensure that
@@lawrenceg4104 You do actually. Under the Helms-Burton act, any foreign company that trades with Cuba is subject to legal action in the US and their leadership can be banned from entering the US. If you choose to trade with Cuba, you effectively become a criminal in the US. If this isn't banning trade with Cuba, I don't know what is short of actually invading any country that trades with them.
Cuba imports 70% of its food needs. Before the Revolution Cuba was a net exporter of food.
Cuba still exports Sugar but you will notice that most American soft drinks are no longer sweetened with cane sugar but high fructose corn syrup. About a month ago the last American sugarcane mill closed in South Texas.
@@kimobrien. Just to clarify, there are still eleven sugar mills operating in Louisiana. The RGVSG plant was the last sugar mill in Texas, and it closed due to a water dispute with Mexico and not because a lack of demand.
@@katerinaromanov They don't have the water in either Falcon Lake or Lake Amastead. As far where the water went that's a question fir the international boundary commission. The lakes have been low for years.
@@kimobrien. Really? Over $13 Billion sugar production in Florida..! Cuba's decline in Sugar production due to lack of investment in this industry and the fall of the USSR and its subsidies of Cuban Sugar..! Please educate yourself and stop making uninformed statements..!
@@gregrodriguez714 They along with beat sugar producers get US tariff market protection. American's pay nearly twice the world market price. like many things in the US profits are protected by the bosses government. All that free market talk is for chumps.
Don't interchange the word embargo and blockade. They are quite different things. The US has embargoed direct trade with Cuba but does not enforce a blockade. Corporations and individuals from non US countries can and do trade with Cuba. There is no physical interference hence it is not a blockade.
taken from a comment below by Dmitri: "The "embargo" means that ships which enter a Cuban port cannot enter a US port for 180 days". it seems more inconvenient and problematic than what emerges from your definition. The US embargo is anachronistic and damaging mostly common people nowadays.
The world strongest and biggest economy banning any boats or corporations from trading with them if they dare set foot near Cuba is an de-facto blockade, because barely any business would want to give up trade with the US.
Also the US does trade with cuba, especially with food.
@@MarcusLangbartWe are not friends!!!!! Cuba nationalized billions of US assets on the island without adequate compensation. WE ARE NOT FRIENDS. The people should stand up to their government.. until then, they are their government.
@lawrenceg4104 this is unfortunately true.
What embargo? Not when the US officially exported more than $320 million (more than 90% of it food products) to Cuba in 2021 (not counting sales to private entrepreneurs).
Quit lying US cancer patients who want to live have to smuggle Cuban medicine back home via Canada.
Pretty sure there's exemptions and what not. If you see any Cuban cigars being stocked in the US though, you probably have a point. I wouldn't know, I'm on the other side of the Atlantic.
@@SophiaAstatine I'm talking about exports the U.S. sells to Cuba, not exports from Cuba to the U.S. (BTW Dominican cigars are much better quality). The only significant restriction on U.S. sales to Cuba is that Cuba must pay in cash or source the funds to pay from banks other than in the US. This is because Cuba has a very bad reputation for not paying its bills on time; it owes over $3 billion in hard currency loans to Western bank and governments, and over $9bn in soft currency loans to Russia (ex. USSR). And it has never compensated U.S. companies whose Cuban assets it nationalized. The "embargo": is not the problem, Cuba's terrible economic mismanagement, unwillingness to change, and violent repression of its own people who dare to suggest that it change; those are Cuba's real problems.
@@kevink2593very correct
@@user-yh4ee4is2r That's about $30 per person. US Gov't forbids its companies from negotiating any settlement since they have this false dream of taking everything back. If the blocked and designation as a state sponsor of terror is causing problems they why maintain them in the face of overwhelming world wide opposition at the UN.
I think it should be noted, for whatever its worth, that the U.S. embargo of Cuba does not include food or medicine, which can be freely sent from the U.S. to Cuba.
De jure it doesn’t but it de facto does.
@@AT-AT26 No, food and medicine are regularly sent from the U.S. to Cuba. By the by, with all due respect to my Cuban-American friends, I do not support the embargo. I really think it is counter-productive.
And all that food and medicine gets "misplaced" and used up by the big bellies for their families. Leaving those who have family in a foreign country to send money to buy those medicines that should've been given in the first place. Like it always happens.
@@stephenLarson-vs7fu peanuts compared what it would be (even with the embargo in place) since it scares off trade and donations a lot of the time
No, that is false. Some very limited trade happens if and when the US govt gives a specific company permission to do so. They don't give that permission often, and the rescind it for no reason all the time. There is no direct company to company trade. A resort chain, for example, cannot just order all their supplies from the US, nor can their use the booking or logistics systems. Restaurants and supermarkets cannot just place an order with a major food processor/distributor such as Tyson foods, etc, etc. Most major companies won't even apply for that permission anymore, because the US keeps pulling the rug out from underneath them at a whim.
He said educated Cubans?
I’m Cuban and trust me about 75% of the people that left the country I wouldn’t want them nearby me.
The US embargo of course has some impact but this is 100% on the Cuban government.
Same as a Syrian
100% on the Cuban government? Don't be ridiculous.
@@stuartwray6175
The Cuban government is the main culprit.
Omg TLDR vids with official subtitles? Took a little while but I’m so happy they finally got around to it!
A big problem with dictatorships is that the best young talents move to other countries.
Happens in democracies too. Can even be worse as it easier to move.
@@m8e Yes, but they move to other democracies. No dictatorship has an influx of young talent.
@@m8eI don't remember seeing flock of young educated workforce rushing to enter China, North Korea, Iran, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and other dictatorial regimes
China absolutely. People from Sri Lanka for example immigrate to China. And you forgot about dictatorships in Oil rich countries and the unprecedented immigration to those countries without any sanctions. All the countries you mentioned tho, are heavily sactioned. You claims to belive in free market but denies the impact of selective sactions to certain non-representative democracies. @@user-eq9xs5fz9u
Also about China, is China a dictatorship if it's state has more approval than the US congress? I didn't do the survey, Harward uni did. @@user-eq9xs5fz9u
"Blockade" is not the same as "embargo". It's a very important distinction.
Kennedy called it quarantine. The Imperialist fear the example Cuba sets.
Power to the Cubans
*People.*
Americans*
Yes, they really need electricity now.
@@aerime best answer. The blackouts suck.
@@aerime😂💀
0:34 "Migüel" 💀
No shit. Really?! I can totally hear your pronunciation.
@@ivannaharmonilook , it's just that any gringo knows how Miguel is pronounced.
@@ivannaharmoni on spanish when a U is between a G and a E/I the U becomes mute, if that specific U needs to be said it should include the 2 flying points Ü
Ex: at 🐧PinGÜIno the u is pronounced
I hope i could explain it
TLDR is the GOAT of mispronouncing names. I think it's deliberate.
@@_xeere it has to be because we are always laugh in the comment section 😂
I was just in Cuba last week. (3 nights in Havana, 4 at the resort.) They are not happy and everyone is struggling. Everyone we talked to said they would leave Cuba if they could. EVERY SINGLE PERSON, just imagine. I feel for them because they're such lovely people.
The embargo is huge problem, of course, but its truly astounding that everywhere you go there its about The Revolution !! I was looking at the books at the airport, trying to find one about the geography, the birds, etc ... nope it was 100% The Revolution, Che Guavera or Castro. That's 60 years ago, get on with it !!
Probably a propaganda thing
Indoctrination, the oppressive regime has been ruining the country for 60 years
Ain't socialism wonderful folks 😂
@@ShirleyGronin-iu8sw "There will be a revolution in the United States before their is a counter revolution in Cuba." Fidel Castro.
Their problem
Don’t be communist, ain’t I right?
Really important note here: Unless the US is actually sending warships out to stop other ships from going to Cuba's ports, it's not a blockade.
A blockade is a restriction of trade enforced by naval assets (think warships actually blocking commercial ships from getting to the island) whereas an embargo doesn't involve blocking off port access.
its more like the US pressures countries under its influence to stop trading with Cuba which is bad overall.. and we cant forget they did do a blockade already in the past so your point doesn’t change the fact its still the US who holds all the power and have restricted Cuba and hampering it from functioning 100%..
@@lowkoalatee4033Cuba's govt is staunchly anti-capitalist, but whines when they can't get capitalist Yankee dollars. Clowns 🤡
@@lowkoalatee4033yes. As declassified CIA documents state, the embargo is an attempt to increase suffering to destroy Cuba.
So you are for free trade with Russia or are you a hypocrit?@@lowkoalatee4033
And a simple soltution would be that the comunists gave up their dicatorship@@lowkoalatee4033
From a historical prospective, consider covering Russia's subsidizing of the Cuban economy and how the war in Ukraine is effecting Russia's economy and trickles down to the economies of countries like Cuba.
Almost all economic support from Russia ended in 1991 with the collapse of the USSR. The same is true for other Soviet-aligned states. The War in Ukraine has very little to do with this, or they'd have mentioned it
What the hell are you talking about? That hasn't been the case since before I was born. Stop spreading disinformation.
What the hell are you talking about? That hasn't been the case since before I was born.
Think your stuck in the cold war mate
That would be Venezuela instead of the USSR for the 2000's
3:44 The us is not enforcing a blockade with the exception of the Cuban Missile crisis we never had a blockade. The correct word is embargo NOT blockade.
Lets be honest here Cuba is able to trade with other countries their biggest trading partners are China, Venezuela, Mexico, Canada, Spain, Brazil, Netherlands, France and Germany.
Cuba just doesn't " PRODUCE ENOUGH VALUE ", Why, you ask?
Because the government have an internal blockade stopping people from owning private enterprise or freedom to do so.
This is the reason why Cuba is poor and can't afford basic necessities.
Both of you seem to not know what an embargo or a blockade is. Cuba is suffering from both by the U.S. empire. And the US has the blockade/embargo set up to where those countries you listed off will suffer penalties like stopping financial aid from the U.S., taxing them, and even as far as sanctioning them amongst other threats. A lot of people simply don’t realize how damaging economic sanctions imposed by the U.S. are. Especially to smaller import dependent countries like Cuba.
@@joemascone
Did you not watch the video where it mentions the Helms-Burton act?
The Helms-burton act prevents foreign companies that wishes to have business in America having any business with/in Cuba.
With the Helms-burton act, it prevent many foreign companies to trade with Cuba including Sam Sung, LG, Ocean Spray and Sony for example
@@dancingbanana168 LOL it doesn't all the countries actually made law to oppose it.
EU = The European Union introduced a Council Regulation (No 2271/96)[15] (law binding all member states) declaring the extraterritorial provisions of the Helms-Burton Act to be unenforceable within the EU, and permitting recovery of any damages imposed under it.
UK = The United Kingdom had previously introduced provisions by statutory instrument[16] extending its Protection of Trading Interests Act 1980 (originally passed in the wake of extraterritorial claims by the U.S. in the 1970s) to United States rules on trade with Cuba. United Kingdom law was later extended to counter-act the Helms-Burton Act as well. This included criminal sanctions for complying with extraterritorial provisions of the Helms-Burton Act whilst in the UK.
Canada = Similarly, Canada passed the "An Act to amend the Foreign Extraterritorial Measures Act" (C-54),[18] a law to counteract the effect of Helms-Burton.[19] In addition, its legislature proposed (but did not pass) the tongue-in-cheek Godfrey-Milliken Bill, so named in the American style, that mirrored Helms-Burton, replacing the Cuban revolution with the American revolution. Sponsored by Loyalist descendants, it demanded recompense for United Empire Loyalists and proposed travel restrictions on those trafficking in property confiscated during the American Revolution. One of its sponsors, MP Peter Milliken, went on to serve as Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons.
This is just a simple google.
AND AGAIN it doesn't stop all the other countries from opening or doing trade with Cuba it's literally just US companies.
China won't sell brand new or even used cars to Cuba because again they can't afford it.
AND AGAIN GOES BACK TO MY ORIGINAL COMMENT:
Cuba just doesn't " PRODUCE ENOUGH VALUE ", Why, you ask?
Because the government have an internal blockade stopping people from owning private enterprise or freedom to do so.
This is the reason why Cuba is poor and can't afford basic necessities.
@@joemasconeare you people morons
*IN THE RECENT PROTESTS IN THE STREETS OF CUBA WHERE THE PEOPLE ASK THE CASTRIST GOVERNMENT FOR FOOD, CURRENT AND FREEDOM, THEY NEVER BLAME THE LACK OF THOSE THOSE THINGS ON THE US OR THE EMBARGO*
Thanks for the video.
Thanks!
Really hope they are
The Cuban people deserve to live in a free country, where they choose their government
They do. Cuba has a direct democracy voting system where in the National and Municipal assembly elections they vote for the people who become members of the Municipal and National assembly. The president is elected by the National Assembly of people's power (the cuban Parliament) in a way similar to how the UK Prime Minister is. Its not like it was under Fidel where there is only one leader with absolute control over the country.
@@JAKE2JIZZY Can they vote to change which party/parties govern them at the various levels of government?
the communist party isn't a monolith. Different members have different views on how the nation should be ruled, and people can choose which candidate they prefer. What is the point of dozens of party, it just creates chaos, and hampers the nation. You can't have progress when every time a new party gets power they just ditches the old ones policies. Why not have 1 party, and choose your preferred nuance of it?
@@alexjenkins1079 No there is only one party in Cuba. They could change the people that make up the government in the National Assembly if they don't vote for them snd vote for someone else. Not to sound Anti-American but the US is only one party away from being like Cuba
@@JAKE2JIZZYfam, this sounds like the Soviet system. Also the US’s voting system is the cause of the duopoly. There is always an option to change that however.
"In a society where there is no freedom of the press, it is difficult for victims to be noticed. Just take the example from yesterday: I had given a telephone interview to CNN. Then, suddenly, CNN was shut down for a couple of minutes. It was the first time I experienced that my television went totally dead. I realized: Oh my God, it’s because of me. This is crazy! Which nation would do that? Maybe Cuba, North Korea, China. But what do they want, what are they so afraid of?" - Ai Weiwei 🇨🇳
=LIKE THERE WAS *ANY* UNDER RULE OF "DEMOCRATIC DICTATORS" UNDER WHICH LOTS OF VERY SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITIES WAS HAPPENING,AS U CAN REMEMBER
=THE *ONLY* BRIGHT FUTURE FOR THEM IS...... *_BECOME PART OF U.S._* BUT THEY'VE GOT REFUSED IN 1910 OR SO
CNN being shutting down would be a major incident. I could not recall this event reported. According my knowledge to this guy, it is most likely that this never happened and is just his illusion.
“Unlike traditional authoritarian regimes that directly target individual speech, censorship in the West manifests itself more subtly within the framework of so-called democratic politics and the broader concept of so-called freedom of speech. Criticism and dissenting thoughts that diverge from the established values and corporate interests are often subjected to censorship to varying degrees.” also - Ai Weiwei 🇨🇳 and he followed with “While individuals may still voice their opinions, their impact on shaping societal ideology is often minimal. That’s why I think Western censorship operates in a more concealed, solid and enduring manner. This poses a greater threat as people are lulled into believing in the absence of censorship in the West,”
womp womp
@@BobBilly506 He has an opinion. He is allowed to give that in the West, but not in China. Go Figure!
As a Canadian, we used to travel there yearly. The Cuban people are great but the countries government keeps them down trodden. We no longer go there. On our last trip, our bus tour guide had a day job as a University Professor. I feel bad for them but they love Russia so we stay away now.
"The Cuban government has a bit of a point" no they don't. They aren't prohibited from doing trade with any country in the world. The USA is not required to trade with Cuba just like Cuba doesn't have to give back all the land they stole from American businesses.
Bot?
None of that is true.
@@bsenka Cuba is prohibited from doing trade with the rest of the world?
The USA is mandated to trade with Cuba?
Did the Cuban government not nationalize industries held by American companies?
@@Skullslasher6 The US prohibits foreign companies from trading with Cuba. They regularly seize assets when they do. The won't allow ships that dock in Cuba to come to the US.
The US is not required to trade, but they actively interfering in their ability to do any trade with anyone.
The Cuban govt repatriated their own assets from American colonizers. US didn't legitimately "own" anything, they took it by military force, and Cuba took it back the same way.
TLDR i using embargo and blockade interchangeably. But aren't they completely different?
Yes.
A blockade would isolate cuba completly, its what we saw in thr 1960s but it ended as the cuban missile crisis ended, nowdays cuba still trade ALOT with the world
Accoeding to the OEC its a trade value of 765 milion USD on imports, around 245 milion USD on exports
I can understand the argument about pressuring foreign companies to not trade with Cuba, but I do not see how anyone could say that the US has to trade directly with a country that has a hostile government.
if we want to talk about the most hostile country in the world, it’s 100% the US. Considering their history of global military imperialism with around 750 military outposts in foreign territory (including Guantanamo Bay, which is illegal), their historic use of inhumane weapons usage on civilian populations like firebombs, napalms, drone strikes and nukes, and let’s not forget about what they did to the Indigenous and Black populations through genocide and chattel slavery respectively. the only reason why they haven’t been fully sanctioned is because “might makes right” in the United Nations
Its the US that is hostile to Cuba, not the other way around
@@jakestar121get out, touch grass, deal with your brain rot
No one is saying they have to. It would just be right for them to stop using their influence to completely destroy a smaller and weaker nation.
@theyeening Yeah that's why they nationalized billions worth of US assets. Whatever. It doesn't matter. We are hostile towards each other and don't want to be friends. STOP WITH THE EMBARGO TALK. Go find yourself willing trading partners and DO YOU!
The US Navy isn't blockading the Cuban coast. Countries other than the US are able to trade freely with Cuba. Cuba's argument is like saying that I'm bankrupt because my neighbor won't buy and sell goods with me.
Exactly this. There's nothing stopping the surrounding Caribbean nations or South America from trading with Cuba
@@klaykid117 Thats a flat out lie because the US has used pressure to make sure nations do not trade as much with Cuba and actively meddled in the governments of nations in the Americas that did.
You guys didn't watch the video did you...
The current state of the embargo makes it so any company in the world has the option to either trade with the US or Cuba, not both.
So yeah, the embargo is now global
@@robertkent4929 lol brazillian comany JBS is trading massively with the US and cuba
Cuba still imports accoeding to the OEC 785 M USD in value lol
Guatemala, Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, Bolivia, Mexico, Honduras, Suriname and the United States are corrupt countries with human rights abuses with potential political violence, police brutality and war crimes in the Americas.
The United States does not have a "blockade" on Cuba, it has an embargo.
That's not even enforced because Cuba trades freely with the rest of the world
It's effectively a blockade when the US, as the biggest economy in the world, dictated the market. Boats and businesses gets banned from the US market if they trade with Cuba, effectively creating a blockade because the US is a lucrative market and holds a lot of sway over international trade.
It's also an embargo that the UN voted to lift repeatedly for decades, with the villains of the world, US and their demon sidekick isreal, voting against and vetoing one of the few topics in international politics that literally everyone agrees on.
The idea is the same. economic restrictions vital for national growth are being implemented on Cuba and have been for almost 70 years.
@@blackwatertv7018 false. Cuba trades with the entire world.
Cuban government’s best excuse
-Cuban
Blockade =/= embargo smh. There aren't any American warships blockimg trade into Cuba.
It actually is in this case. It is not a military blockade but an economic blockade.
In other words they not only forbid their own companies to do any exports - but also any other internationally acting company worldwide.
@@MetallicReg You're lying, US businesses trade with Cuba all the time.
@@rbdan"The "embargo" means that ships which enter a Cuban port cannot enter a US port for 180 days". it seems more inconvenient and problematic than what emerges from your definition. The US embargo is anachronistic and damaging mostly common people nowadays.
@@BobBilly506 no one asked tankie
@@rbdani see why you are stupid
As a Cuban American I'm proud of my primos still in Cuba who have taken up the protests. I also have family who is here under the work program with myself and my parents as sponsors. We want to get all of them out eventually. My parents came in '80. We have more family in America and Spain than we do in Cuba now. Sadly. Hopefully one day things will change.
I hope that the new government will make it easier for descendants to just get Cuban passports. A lot of us Cuban descendants don't hold Cuban nationality under current Cuban law and they (the Commies) want to make it more difficult for us to get Cuban passports.
But have you considered that your parents and their lived experiences were wrong and that western teenagers/contrarian tankies are right about Cuba being a wholesome big chungus socialist paradise?
Not to defend the Cuban government, but, it's not normal for people that never step foot on the country to jave a hard time getting citizenship? @@Planeet-Long
Please don't say your family is one of those ride-or-die Cuban Republicans who vote for far right extremism because you're scared of anything left of center due to Cubas government?
Yea it's kinda idiotic to demand passports for a country that a family hasn't been inside for 2 generations. US uses a land based citizenship, so if you're born there you get it, which is a massive privlege to gain democratic rights considering most countries use the racist blood citizenship, that keeps generations of immigrants as second class citizens when it comes to democratic rights.
I was just there in January for vacation and the Island is in a weird Flux right now. Somethings are getting better and other things are getting worse like shortages.
The US does not Blockade Cuba. There is a selective trade embargo, but all sorts of ships freely go to Cuba.
Weird to see tldr be quite so sympathetic in its reporting on the Cuban dictatorship?
Protests that have brought down such regimes in the past almost always begin as quality of life protests, then evolve.
Everyone is upset at the embargo, despite the fact that if Cuba held elections tomorrow that were free and fair, the embargo would be gone in the next few days.
Its not a bloqade, but an embargo
Everyone who says Cuba is a success has never heard an actual Cuban talk about the conditions of his country
Anyone who says Cuba is a failure, has never approached this topic with any sort of nuance or in good faith.
Are we talking about Cubans living in Cuba or gusanos living in Miami?
@@RandolfLycanpeople who say stuff like that always cream for left wing dictatorships, I bet you cream for China
@@RandolfLycan Bro, they cant even feed their own population on some of the best farmland on earth.
At what point does a country "fail" or "succeed"?
Bolivia, Honduras, Belize and Guatemala are all poorer than Cuba and have worse quality of life metrics despite them NOT being embargoed by the US. Are they "failures"?
The US has a lower life expectancy than third world countries like Thailand and Chile that is trending DOWNWARDS, a serious drug addiction problem, the world's largest prison population, useless engineers that can't build massive infrastructure projects with anywhere near the speed, scale or cost efficiency as their European and Asian counterparts, crumbling infrastructure despite being the richest country in human history, an army of homeless people, and a population where the majority of workers live paycheck to paycheck. Is this "failure"?
Unless we're talking about more extreme examples like Somalia or Yemen, bad faith questions like asking if Cuba is a success of failure needs to be avoided to have a productive dialogue.
As a Cuban, the embargo is not at fault. Bye
It is at fault.
Let me guess you live in Florida and Casto took away your great grandma's sugar plantation
Embargo has destroyed traders there. Especially in basic goods. As an Indian , I am happy that We are helping Cuba stand up again.
It’s both
Cuban from where?
Dictatorships always blame others.
End the blockade and then you won't be blamed for it.
@@kimobrien. Stop dictatorship first.
Was America helping? Also Israel always blames others and they're a democracy.
@@FakenameStevens Israel isn't really a democracy, it's an ethnocracy that uses anti-semitism as a weapon.
@@kimobrien. There is no blockade, we simply refuse to trade with cuba or companies that invest in it. You've got the rest of the world to sell shit to. What? Do you need our evil capitalist money or something?
Viva Cuba libre!
Patria Y Vida! Viva la libertad!
Viva Cuba Socialista
@@g.lucchio5660 clearly you aren't Cuban
@donovanlocust1106 clearly, the vast majority of the people in this comment section aren't cuban
@donovanlocust1106 but hey, my country of birth has vivid memories from the 70s of people fleeing TO Cuba to escape persecution, and I'm sure spanish did too, so......
It is important to remember a lot of the problems in Cuba in terms of services there is caused by the United States and its embargo which was voted against at the UN by a SUPERMAJORITY.
This embargo also has impacts on its transport, of course, tourism from Americans considering the DOS ban on going to Cuba for tourism purposes.
The embargo the first place was done due to the Cubans getting rid of the American backed dictatorship there.
Cuba and all the other poor countries of the world will never get any better as long as the US and Western countries falsely get blamed for all their problems.
It's almost like a centrally planned economy doesn't work
Any system struggles economically when the largest superpower bans business from entering the country
@gilbertohernandez2409 that just made it look even worse. Dude, if communism works, shouldnt THEY be the ones sanctioning Capitalists?
@@gilbertohernandez2409only American companies can't trade with Cuba, any other country that wants to, can.
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@@zzzyyyxxx no they can't either
In its attempt to provide context, the report failed to say that the trade embargo was a response the Cuba’s seizure of assets owned by US companies and its aligning with the USSR in the midst of the cold war. Cuba was better off economically before Castro, though certainly not everyone benefited equally.
In 1950 Cuba had one of the fastest growing economies and middle classes in the Americas. The double whammy of the Batista coup and the Castro Revolution ruined that.
Before Castro, you mean when Fulgencio Batista, one of the most brutal dictators in recent history which received massive help from the United States to stay in power? Yeah, of course they were economically better
@@lucasfernandes0002-- Batista took power in 1952. In 1950 Cuba had democratically-elected president, Prio, and Cuba, while it had problems, was getting better, and there were many reasons for optimism (unlike today). Also, while Batista was an authoritarian who abused his position as president to suppress opposition and enrich himself, he was not one of the most brutal dictators in recent history. Unlike the PCC, he did not try to micro-manage the lives of the Cuban people; as long as you weren't trying to overthrow him, he didn't care what you did, or where you went. Until the last year or so of the civil war the Cuban economy continued to improve. Yes, he needed to be removed from power and democracy restored [one of Truman's greatest mistakes was to recognize the Batista government as legitimate after the coup], but what Cuba got under Fidel and Che turned out to be far worse. Proof of this is the fact that during the Batista regime very few Cubans fled the country (and it was a lot easier then for Cubans to travel to other countries), while under Castro and his successors nearly two million Cubans have fled the country, or died trying (in spite of strict government laws restricting overseas travel), and many more Cubans today would leave if they had a way to do so.
@@lucasfernandes0002 Batista? The bogeyman Castro supporters like to cite as justification for their ruinous reign on the island? I think it’s time to play another tune.
@@CM-bi6oy Batista denied the right if protest of the cuban people, made deals with the Mafia - that was the reason for the cassinos in the island: laundering money - and received huge bribes from foreign companies (Fruit Co. is the most famous) so these companies could steal land from poor farmers without any type of compensation or justice.
Also, Batista stood in power for 12 years without elections, and brutally persecuted, tortured, killed, exiled or simply made "disapear" any political rival or dissenter, so who is the "boogeyman" you claimed he was?
Hey, TLDR team! For today's daily video do not forget that Portugal already has a new prime-Minister after the diaspora votes were counted, and, in opposition, that Éire's prime-Minister resigned, with new elections in the new future dominated by the competing rise of Sinn Féin and the anti-imigration sentiment.
Agreeing trade with a system who says your system is wrong while planning for it’s downfall every day doesn’t seem sensible
Viva Cuba libre! Abajo la dictadura !
Cuba doesn't want the best For the people. Look at El Salvador President. That's a President that cares about His people... The government can do it. They just choose not to do it simple as that.
Why does the Cuban government blame the US embargo for its problems, there's the rest of the world with whom they can trade? The Cuban government (I did not say people) have made it clear they have no need for us or our greedy democractic/capitalistic ways ....
A embargo is not a blockade. The UK is free to give them everything they need if they want to……..
I am Cuban, it is incorrect to say that the embargo prohibits trade from Cuba, the United States is the 5th country that imports the most to Cuba, almost all the little meat that Cubans eat is American, for example the Tyson brand, ships arrive every week loaded with merchandise directly from the United States, including medicines, food and luxury cars. Cuba has commercial relations with almost all countries in the world, including major world powers, but they have no money because Fidel Castro and the only communist party present since 1959 have destroyed the economy. In Cuba there is an anti-democratic and repressive totalitarian communist dictatorship...
Truth!
Yes!
Don't bother. It's easier for countries like Cuba to blame all their problems on outsiders (who are almost invariably the US and other Western countries). They simply don't want to accept responsibility for their own problems because that would make them feel bad about themselves. It's childish and holds those places back but they don't care.
Then maybe it was good for Fidel Castro to bail out while the going was - not good but better than what it is now. Its the Cuban peoples own fault for never questioning his actions and believing he was a good leader, which he wasn't. Cuba was always a shithole thanks to their communist govt. but now its become unbearable.
Cubans get a $100,000 education from tax payers, then migrate to the US. I dislike authoritarianism as much as anyone but a free education is also important, but impossible if you have to compete internationally with a country that doesn't provide it.
It is a little odd to put a dollar figure on free education. There are specific costs to the Cuban state which are calculated.
The cost of higher education in the US is an anomaly in the world. And there's not many people who actually pay full tuition. So, it is difficult to calculate the actual average cost of a bachelor's degree without looking at the data after financial aid.
Freedom … that’s the real shortage ! Patria y vida y libertad !
Blaming the u.s sounds stupid,outside the u.s, Cuba have the right to trade with the rest of the world,so i see no sense in cuba blaming u.s,though they need to sit and talk about it rather than blame game.
Not if those nations got any form of US aid or did not want our government trying to meddle in their affairs. Its weird how many peoples memories are selective when it comes to all the US backed coups in the Americas. We literally used the cold war and domino theory as a justification to basically overthrown governments that would've been sympathetic to Cuba.
@@bryansylvestrew5024"We" did that *decades* ago. You need to update your geopolitical analysis a little bit to account for things that have happened since then.
There is a soap shortage in Cuba. Here in the US, we have millionaires who put up the money to build soap factories. In Cuba, Castro imprisoned all the millionaires or they escaped, so there isn't the money to build soap factories. Thus: the shortage of soap and they have to import it
Cuba libre y democracia ahora
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There have been toilet paper shortages there ever since I can remember.
The shortage of toilet paper was a hallmark of all Soviet-style centrally planned economies. People typically coped with this issue using official communist party newspapers instead.
@@JanuszKrysztofiak
LOL. DAMN!
There are more Cubans in Miami than Havana now
The "Cuban crisis" sounds like an oxymoron. In Cuba, as in Venezuela -my land-, "crises" happen every day, when you don't know if you will be able to eat the next day.
add Haiti to the mix
@@agmuntianu I mean I don't think you can compare Haiti to anywhere else in the world right now. It's a true anarchy.
@@GeorgeWashingtonLaserMusket True. Haiti is the definition of lawless anarchy. Venezuela and Cuba, with all of their massive faults, still uphold law and order to a certain degree. They did not descend (yet) into a spiral of gang violence.
Cuba is somewhat functional, Venezuela is bordering failed state, Haiti is a failed state.
@@GeorgeWashingtonLaserMusket Haiti is arguably the worst nation to live in on earth right now.
"It's your fault I'm doing poorly because I can't sell my goods in your market or buy your things"
According to the UN yes that’s how embargoes work in a global economy.
@@AT-AT26 Lets be honest here Cuba is able to trade with other countries their biggest trading partners are China, Venezuela, Mexico, Canada, Spain, Brazil, Netherlands, France and Germany.
Cuba just doesn't " PRODUCE ENOUGH VALUE ", Why, you ask?
Because the government have an internal blockade stopping people from owning private enterprise or freedom to do so.
This is the reason why Cuba is poor and can't afford basic necessities.
They Will Make You Feel Pain Suffer If You Dare To.
Calling the trade embargo a blockade is propaganda language. It is not a blockade. And it is probably not "the primary cause of Cubas woes." (rather is probably the failure of the tourist industry, as mentioned, along with the the failure of Venezuela-s socialist economy which is no longer able to provide it with as much cheap fuel, which TLDR didn't mention for some reason).
Good video.
Nope!
The words 'embargo' and 'blockade' have different meanings--STOP USING THEM INTERCHANGEABLY! An embargo is a legal prohibition on trade. A blockade involves using warships to prevent entry and exit of ship from the targeted port or country. There are no US Navy ships preventing any vessels from any country entering or leaving any Cuban ports.
We can only hope!
ah, food shortages and communism, name a more iconic duo.
US intervention and collapsing countries
Bruh thought this comment was so fire he made it twice.
Capitalism and food shortages is prrtty iconic too lol
@@mustarastas88 yeah absolutely more iconic tbh
@@mustarastas88commies can't think of a better reply other than "no u".
They need Mr. Burns to suddenly show up with another trillion dollar bill
Geev what back?
cuba can trade with many other countries....such as iran,russia,china...etc....but cuba can only come with cup in hand asking for free stuff from those countries.
to answer question in title NO. it spells doom for oppressed people in Cuba though
@brazidas58
Your video leves many many things out. In the 1950s Havana was the second best city in the americas , number 1 was Washington DC. The Castro regime with their idiotic and tyrannical regime has destroyed Cuba. After the revolution in 1959 Cuba none of their economic plans have ever worked. What socialism and communism touches it destroys. The only way Cuba can come out of the misery and poverty is to get rid of the Castro regime and move to a capitalist system of free market. Castro was very good at propaganda and sold the communist idea all over latin america. I have visited Cuba several times in the last 20 years and every time I have travel there, their situation has degraded more and more. Children have stunted growth do to lack of proper food, hospitals are a disaster, public transit almost nonexistent, large parts of their farmland lies fallow and unproductive overgrown with a plant called"marabu," terrible sanitation, should I go on. When Cuba was part of spain it was consider by spain to be there jewel. There no US brocade , there is an embargo of certain things, why dot you look up the details of the embargo. God give the cuban people strength to rid themselves of their communist yoke
"its all a western US imperialist ploy"
-some lefty
Cuba has to be one of the strangest long term US policies…it poses absolutely 0 threat to them in the modern day and they put stricter sanctions on it ?
Too many Americans wish the Cold War had never ended so they keep it going against Cuba.
Its to keep the subjects in line.
It’s not really issue but there’s a weird buzzing with your microphone when you speak. Just thought you should know in case your mic’s on the way out
America should send in the marine.period.
The Cuban people are sick and tired of this brutal regime. They are finally speaking up against the regime and demand democracy. Cuba is lacking of food, fuel, medicines, etc and the people of Cuba deserve better. Free Cuba once and for all. Power to the people of Cuba! 🇨🇺
Brutal is harsh, I think most are tired of a brutal & illegal US embargo placed on them
The American people are sick and tired of this brutal regime. and all the rest you said analogously.
Maybe lift the oppressive trade embargo…
@@emp437 *exactly*
Yes free Cuba like how America "freed Cuba" by overthrowing a democratically elected government and back an oppressive dictator before Castro. Oh wait I don't believe America cares for sugar anymore so there's no need to overthrow the government there. Maybe if they discover oil.
Embargo does not equal blockade. Fix this spin.
I dont think a "blockade" is enforced, and hasnt been for decades, and certainly isnt the main driver of their economic collapse. As a South African, I know for a fact SA trades with Cuba. Hell, our government brings Cuban Drs and engineers and gives them SA government contracts when our own Drs are unemployed. And yet we still have tons of US companies doing business here.
This video made it seem as if Cuba's dictatorship and communist policies have merely played a minor role in their downfall. Its by far the primary reason, and follows the same trend as all communist countries that predated it
FREE CUBA STOP THE EMBARGO
Nah, America isn't obliged to trade with a dictoral regime
@lewis123417 we aren't hurting the government. We are hurting the people. Usa is friends with Vietnam (communist), Saudi Arabia (human rights violater + dictator), and Isfake (a genocidal "state"), so what makes a medium-sized weak island amy different? Also, the embargo isn't just usa not trading with them. IT'S THE WEST ENTIRELY
Guatemala, Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, Bolivia, Mexico, Honduras, Suriname and the United States are corrupt countries with human rights abuses with potential political violence, police brutality and war crimes in the Americas.
@@jeremiahmerritt7463I don't think the embargo makes them a violent communist regime...
@@jeremiahmerritt7463the embargo stands because the cuban goverment nationalized US business without compensation, if the cuban government pays, the embargo ends, thats why neither vietnam nor china are under embargo
So the US is not allowed to have a foreign policy because it's inconvenient for the Cuban dictatorship? Interesting. Perhaps the problem is not US sanctions. If your country cannot function without trade with the US, it might be time to think how that trade is going to start happening.
Blocking Cuba affects regular Cubans more than the regime. It's been 70 years, it's time to accept that keeping the trade embargo up has only extended the lifespam of the regime and made the country that's right next to America closer to Russia for no good reason.
The "embargo" prevents ships that enter Cuban ports from trading with the US for 180 days. I'm not a Leninist whatsoever and generally dislike the Cuban government, but considering the US is the largest economy on earth this is tantamount to an economic strangulation more than an embargo, that is why barely any nations or companies trade with Cuba. If you want to see a country that can't function right now, try Haiti where the US willfully supported dictators like the Duvalier family for decades with the end result that its major cities are practically being run by gangs right now.
@@DmitriPolkovnik so let me get this straight
-The US supports a brutal regime for decades because they believe it will bring stability despite not being ideologically aligned: America bad
-The US decides not to support a brutal regime for decades because they are not ideologically aligned: America bad
Crazy how we always seem to arrive at the same conclusion with people making these facile arguments...
Also really gross to call attempting to destroy a small economy being allowed to "have a foreign policy". As if there was not difference between imperialist aggression and existing as a country. I guess Russia is just "having a foreign policy" in Ukraine right now according to you?
oh yeah the protests against american sactions that western media was using to say they were protesting the government.😂
Yep the citizens of cuba get screwed again because of political differences
We sure hope so!
maybe the US should embargo Saudi Arabia until it embraces democracy too? Or is democracy only a requirement for countries without oil?
Tell that to venezuela, loon.
Please, if Saudi Arabia was as close to the US as Cuba was things would be much different.
Venezuela is with oil and USA also treats them poorly
Iraq somehow really needed democracy and freedom very fast.
That's cause saudi don't demand democracy, cubans do. Nuance is important.
no
Cubas HP is getting low... Anyone gotta Phoenix down
WRONG, WRONG! The embargo IS NOT the cause of Cuba's troubles. I am Cuban and I can tell you with 100% accuracy that the cause of Cuba's problem is.... taratatan! C.O.M.M.U.N.I.S.M. and the PCC (Communist Party of Cuba), and all the people in power that want to keep that structure in place that benefits them. LEARN YOUR FACTS!
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@@Ceeeeee451 Flesh and bone, and a 100% Cuban a$$
No joke I am 25 years old and this is the first time I have ever in my entire life heard anything from Cuba that wasn’t the Cuban missile crisis lol
It's been relatively quiet for a long while. However, you did miss some news stories about Cuba in your lifetime.
International Law is not Legally binding.
Never waste a good crisis, in order to raise taxation 😂😂😂
Whenever there is a single protest in Cuba, channels like yours post a video with the SAME.ASS.TITLE.
And suddenly thousands of new accounts with random usernames flood the comments... hmmm (CIA involvement)
I mean, they've been in crisis for like 60 years
No. Only after the USSR's collapse and Venezuela's collapse
I really like this channel content!
But a nitpick I have is how you seem to make a huge effort to pronounce people's names wrong. No one expects you to know foreign pronunciation of all languages but saying it like "Miguyeil" is pretty wild...
Your citation of sources in the video is welcome.
No
Cuba should have been one of *THE* richest countries in Latin America from a combination of massive sugar cane and tropical fruit/vegetable exports and huge opportunities for tourism. But under the rule of the Castros, they are now one of the poorest countries in all of Latin America.
If 'richest' to you means the 1% holding all the wealth, then i am praying for you.
@@tempejkl I'm actually refering to a vibrant, prosperous middle and upper middle class.
@@Sacto1654 so you dont give a about the serfs that lived under batista and how cuba was a literal gambling cassino to american tourists.
But you is mad that fidel castro made cuba a actual country that serves its people.
@@tempejkl Cuba had a large middle class and a much better quality of life than other Latin American nations before 1959.
@@economicserfdom4087 Cuba serves no one now but the Cuban government elite. Have you seen Castro's family's wealth? Castro became a multimillionaire.
It would be the same without the embargo.
They Will Do Anything To Stay In Power
Analysts have been pretty unanimous the US sanctions haven’t been very impactful, outside the few years after the Soviet Union collapsed.
I don't exactly know if this is true anymore, but I heard that it now only covers luxury goods like cigars, jewelry etc. and not food or gas
Name these analyst
Not being able to trade with the biggest economy in the world for that time, as well as that country being your neighbor is going to be impactful l o l
USSR subsidized the Cuban economy is very true, after '91 it took a few years but Venenzuela became the new sponsor. Now Venenzuela can no longer provide so Cuba's managed economy is showing its true capabilities. Also, the US embargo does not include food or medicine & every other country on earth is free to trade with them. The Cuban government currency controls probably have a bigger impact.
I'm conviced that even if Cuba democratized tomorrow, the embargo would still stay for at least a decade in order to "discourage communism."
No, the embargo would be immediately lifted. Not lifting it at that point would be counterproductive and nonsensical
Besides, it’s our right as a nation to embargo anyone we want. We decide who we trade with and who we don’t trade with. Every nation has the right to refuse trading with another nation for whatever reason. This is nothing wrong placing an embargo or sanctions against another country
Every country can embargo any other country for any reason for as long as they want. That is a sovereign right of every nation
An embargo isn’t a blockade
It's a siege.
Cuba now allows citizens to leave freely, problem for most is they don't have the money to do so.
As an American myself, I honestly don't see the point to treating Cuba like a pariah state and just makes us look bad...
I mean, it pretty much toppled communist regimes every time in the past lol
Everyone pretends Cuba is just "doing things differently" when they're a totalitarian one party state
Almost like they've got their own biases.
There is a tiny bit of a pariah state in Cuba. Somebody is illegally operating a military base there to torture people...
U should talk to non regime cubans before making assumptions.
@@MayankTrivedi2cuba regime hasn't respected territorial integrity of others 😂 learn history.
@@puraLusa We ain't talking to no gusanos