Repair Is This Country's Only Option - Cuba, Cut Off From The Rest Of The World
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- Опубліковано 3 бер 2023
- I explore Cuba in a once in a life time opportunity to experience a country stuck in the past, with old American cars and amazing buildings.
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One of my favourite moments in the book World War Z (the book, not that monstrosity of a film) is when they narrate how Cuba is essentially the zombie free haven because it’s cut off from the world and they also have so much ability to repatch and repair what they have rather than throw it away.
it's all good and games untill they realize they can't grow crops
I agree. Similar story in the book about NK.
Also yeah that movie was traaaaash
Well, I mean, Canadians go there all the time,
@@tiagobraga1480 and all of Europe.
@@Loli4lyf Thats a myth. They actually have a successful agricultural system, and actually a pretty interesting and unique method of urban agriculture. Look up "organiponicos in Cuba" if you're interested
Being both Cuban and son of an electronics engineer, repairs were a common sight while I grew up.
I can attest to what is being shown in the video and fully appreciate High Jeffreys for making this kind of content.
You're not in Cuba now, are you?
@@shortsdohoshi that's right. I'm not.
Hugh Janus goes to Cuba !
Where is Hugh Janus going to go next ?
@@travisash8180 Ya mom's house
"High Jeffreys"
Those retro old cars look really awesome, shame that other countries didn't salvage more of them! The older cars were built simpler and therefore had less to go wrong with them. It also makes them way more repairable and serviceable - no having to plug a computer into your car to find out what is wrong with it.
Also means they are far less efficient.
@@graywolf2694 don't care. Just use cheaper fuel like LPG.
@@TheKitMurkit most people do care
@@TheKitMurkit Or the more efficient and environment friendly ones like biodiesel, bioethanol and bio-methane
yes, it is amazing to ride in one of them with five other people at noon with 30 degrees while everything smells like gasoline.
Awesome video man, and great that you could share this experience with your father! Amazing how resourceful humans can be when they're forced to. Really highlights how terrible our "everything is disposable" mindset is over here in the West.
In Serbia in 90s we had total UN sanctions..like totaly nothing was allow to be imported (only way was smuggling ) ..so like whole 90s i was stuck with what we bought in 80s..so like whole 90s i used computer Amiga my parents bought me in 1989 ..similar with VCR ..i kind off learn my self how to repair it..TVs was also off course from what we bought in late 80s,we had a car from 1987,i had a stereo system line off course also from 80s..and lot off other stuff..like i entered year 2000 with 80s stuff ..but good thing is that then stuff were build to last or repair was easy..all repairs i did my self
Except for how great it is to have such a luxury. I can't fathom having everything controlled by the government and not having the power to change it. The ability to dispose of things and change things how I like is part of why I love western culture. It might be harmful but at the end of the day I would rather live a non resourceful life and have it cut short than a long life of struggling to get by.
Part of this is because I grew up poor so now that I can afford to dispose of stuff I am much more happier.
@@likeablecloud2454 the unfortunate problem here is responsibility. Dispose so much into the environment will only meaning you're contributing to landfill cities. The problem is the whole status symbol society is too mentally numb on this issue. You can live happily, but not when climate change consequences will one day hit back.
Coming from the US, where parts are readily available domestically... I've always complained how everything has to be imported, whenever I need parts here in the Philippines.
After watching this video, this made me realize that I'm still lucky that I can import parts. Whereas Cuba has no choice, but to use what's available to them.
Yeah, btw hows it like importing stuff into Philippines? taxes 'n' stuff
We could fix this problem if the US lifted its sanctions on Cuba
@@Tambolkyuriiii in india you get 20-80% tax on import, seems like you guys have it better there
@@Dragon-xd9em If it's under PHP 10,000 ($200), then it's tax free. Though, if you a certain forwarding company, they'll pay the taxes for you up to PHP 95,000 ($1,721).
Though, I've been to the US and back, and everytime I arrive at the Manila airport at around 5AM, there's no one at the customs counter, so we just pass by. If I were bringing some valuables, it won't get taxed.
@@ManleyEvangelista You know a good forwarding company? I'm from Cebu.
Vox had made a documentary on piracy in Cuba which exists because of their lack of internet penetration. It's wild how much they even make use of the resources they have. Nevertheless, this was an amazing video Hugh.
Im from brazil and piracy here is basically unrestricted. It was much more present in the ps2 era though, with pirated copies of games every corner. Streaming services made piracy somehow obsolete.
@@hayemiranda7647 Pirataria aqui é mais por questão financeira, pq é tudo caro e as pessoas recebem pouco, do que por falta de alguma coisa.
Piracy is basically the only way to get access to the majority of software and media, since the overwhelming majority of content that isn't propaganda is banned.
Love this vlog content! Do more in different cities and countries to see how they face repairment and broken devices, greetings from Chile 🇨🇱
Finally, I find another Chilean viewer, Como estas weon?
@@arandomcat8346 wena ql! Pensé que ningún otro chileno veía a Hugh 😅
@@felvelasquezm jajaj yo pensaba lo mismo weon
Wena culiao, haha
I'd love a vid where he goes down to Chinatown
in the US its all about Planned Obsolesce. people buy things run them till they break and then throw them away and buy another. I garbaged picked a relatively clean box fan. works great just needs a bit of lubercation and a speed control knob (assuming its the reason it was tossed to began with as it was missing)
@@urospavlovic9250 It is. People have money to throw shit away and buy better new things.
Perhaps vintage TVs & radios from shango066's videos could be more useful in Cuba since that country still receives analog TV broadcasts. Visiting Cuba definitely feels like a time capsule, going back to the less-complicated life.
But is it really less complicated?
Yes
Less complicated but INSANELY poor. So sad.
@@TheKitMurkit Yes it is
@@TheKitMurkit explain?
It's the first time I've actually seen Cuba, although friends of mine have visited there and spoke very highly of the people. Great video.
I wanna visit Cuba so badly
@@TheBeatlesShow go then? What's stopping you.
@Dr. Felin It's not that nice coming from a north Korean
I'm not used to see this type of content on youtube, I find it really interesting and seeing it on your channel who's tied to repair is really interesting, thanks for the vlog
Hi Hugh, I'm a Cuban and a huge fan of your channel. I'm a Software Engineer and an electronics technician by hobby. I was nearby but I didn't know about your trip. Greets
Whenever you want to come to mexico, and see for yourself how the repair business works here, you are invited Hugh! I own my own repairs shop! And i’m friends with over 20 shops here! Hope you see it! Love the vids
Mexico got alot of jdm classics especially in tj I've seen rusty supra there before its crazy
it is simultaneously really enraging and insanely cool that there is a place where old tech *has* to live on, if its 5 years or 50 years old.
its harder to get in a car than a cellphone, but i'd love to see all eras of cars and other machines be preserved continuously.
I'm from Cuba, Very amazing video dude!! Love this new style of content, seriously amazing
I went to Cuba back in late 2018. Harder to travel there as an American but I did it. Very, *very* interesting place.
Simple things such as taking a taxi are an experience. I was taxied in a 50s car, then later a junk car of similar age that had a hole on the floor, you could see the road!
To be fair, Hugh had a 27 hour trip with 4 flights. You can literally take a ferry from Miami to Cuba or an hour and a half flight.
I went in 2019, what was interesting to me is that the cars are all vintage but you can see that they've got different transmissions etc, because cars that originally had column shifts have shifters in different places (wherever they fit best), the cars all look great from 20-30 feet away but when you get closer you can see they have so many miles they will never be show vehicles again. I hope to see the day when we stop punishing the Cuban people with a brutal and cruel embargo for no reason.
@@airthrowDBT libtard talking point.
They wanna end? Then they should end the socialist repression.
Socialism kills
@@vic8695 "socialist repression" Define what Cuba should "end", is it their free care packages for new babies Island wide? That's socialism...their universal healthcare? You make zero sense. Also it's none of our fucking business how they distribute their wealth in their own country yet we wage economic warfare and deny other countries that WANT to trade with them. You're a brainwashed lunatic.
@@airthrowDBT sure, i'm the brianwashed while you believe a fairy tale that ended withy 100 milion dead.
Newsflash, moron, i lived through socialism!
Free healthcare? Is free and is shit! Only care that works is for fat commies that pay up such as Michael Moore and the commie elite.
Deny other countries? Read the embargo! Only the US isn;t doing business with Cuba, no other country is denied to trade. There are no US destroyers sinking cargo ships coming to cuba. Aren't you an socialist hypocrite, saying that a socialist country isn;t surviving because it can't trade with a capitlalist country? How come Russia, China, Iran, nicaragua, North Korea, Vietnam or Venezuela dosen't trade enough with Cuba to make it work? Because socialism dosen't work. Never worked.
And yet i am the brainwashed.
You're a moron! Go live like i lived in socialist Romania for at least a year and then we'll talk. You can find the "lite" version of that period in Caracas.
Imagine what Cubans who repair stuff could do if the embargoes were lifted and they had access to better parts and tools.
They do have the necessary tools even under sanctions. Cuba is not wholly cut off from the rest of the world. Spain, Netherlands, and Canada still do trade with Cuba. And tourism also
As a Cuban citizen might accept Embargo affect but just the gouvernement business, if we are so back in the time is due our Comunist gouvernement dont want to improve the private business as well; Embargo has made to seek and affect Militar and gouvernement business who are the ones control EVERYTHING.
Sorry for my English, i still working on it 😅
YOU DIDN'T LIKE CUBAN FOOD?!?!?!?!? Man, I'd love to visit Cuba just for the food. Cuba is definitely on my bucket list, not for the food, since one can find good Cuban food outside of Cuba, but more for how it has been kind of frozen in time and there are lots of good people there from what I hear. Cool video Hugh.
If you want good Cuban food, as a Cuban, go to Miami. They know how to make good food but don't have the ingredients to do so in Cuba.
@@Teku175 Agreed, as the quality of the ingredients you have can make, or break a dish.
There isn't really a way to eat authentic Cuban food in Cuba, due to a lack of excess food that allows for restaurants to sustain business. I was bummed when I went to Cuba myself and found out that restaurants aren't a thing.
@@JakeobE Thanks for that, very interesting. That does make complete sense. Now you've made me really curious of what its actually like to find good food there.
Exactly.
However there are some medical conditions (especially in young men) which means that high legume, high spice diets are not tolerated. So, not a matter of taste (which WE LOVE), but a matter of one's physiology and health.
But a very interesting video.
I'm from there. EVERYTHING can be repaired, we try our best to make everything last longer
Great video. Hope you do more like this. Please release another video with more footage. I was in Cuba 🇨🇺 a few years ago. It was a wonderful place and the people where amazing.
Major respect to the people in this country.
That country is beautiful I love the architecture, and the vehicle's they use.
Amazing content. Thank you for sharing Cuba with us.
i read one cuban book one time called: por nuestros proprios esfuercos, a diy/survival book, the subjects varies to teaching to make a improvised dialysis machine to make new steel spring for makarov using steel on tires! amazing book
What a great video, I like the way they solve repairs in other countries. I liked its content and the shots of the Cuban environment.
Would love to see more videos like this! Combines my two favorite types of channels travel and technology!
I remember going to cuba and seeing bullet holes still in the buildings. Great fun and i even somehow saw a Japanese art exhibit, had no clue that Japan had that close relations.
What a cool country to visit! Seeing only old American & Russian cars on the streets is so surreal. 👌😘
What a great video Hugh! Loved the old cars (and buildings!) 👍👍 Thanks for taking us along 😊
It's so cool and wonderful to see the classic pre 1960s cars in Cuba still running. It's like being transported back in time. The Cubans are very innovative and rescourceful.
I feel for them, especially having lived through a rough
If Cubans in Cuba could own a new Honda or Toyota, they absolutely would. However, it’s actually impossible for them to not because of the embargo, but because of the socialist state.
My dad still uses a very small Nokia phone with dual sim he bought in India over 10 years ago along with his smartphone because it's easy to use and light weight. Last time he was in India the Nokia's mic failed and I thought- well that's it, but he did got it fixed in a shop.
I think this is one of my favourite videos on UA-cam. I've always wondered about these questions and those beautiful cars.
I was there in March 2020 - I'm your fan even more after knowing that you visited the island.
This was a very interesting video. I’ve long found it interesting how Cuba exists with the sanctions imposed upon it. I really like this mini documentary and hope to see more.
Imagine how Cuba will be when that finally drop the sanctions. With this people abilities and resourcefulness they will be one of the best country’s in regards to technology
Is that likely to happen?
The US will just keep putting on sanctions so it can starve the people of Cuba and then blame communism for Cuba starving. Hope the Cuban people survive, unlucky they had the bad fortune to be neighbours to one of the worst countries in human existence.
Probably why it won't ever happen
You don't understand. It's not sanctions that are to blame but communists and their evil ways. When Cubans free themselves from communis they won't have to live like this.
@@jakecameron3496 Single-handedly proving why the American education system is the worst in the world.
I like this new channel direction. Please make more of these in the future.
Even though it's unfair they don't have new things, but honestly with the old cars on the road, it looks really cool
Looks like GTA vice city
Wish I could just donate my old phones and electronics to Cuba.
Same I have several good motorola Android phones I could wipe, and send over from the US if there was an easy way to get them to the country, as I feel the average person is not at fault for what is happening, but a corrupt government in Cuba that won't give up their old ways so the people can have a better life.
@Krauses They can import stuff, just not from the US and other countries that imposed embargo on them. Cuba's main trading partners are Venezuela, China, Spain, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, and the Netherlands, but their authoritarian government is keeping the populace in poverty.
@@giovannifoulmouth7205 Wait, you think the Cuban government is keeping the people in poverty, not the US embargo??
@@giovannifoulmouth7205How does the "cuban government keep people in poverty"?
Did they self impose sanctions like the British? Do they erect barriers to professional careers like medicine?
What are the actions of this horrible government that keep people in poverty? Having the wrong allies?
Also, they can't just import stuff from neutral countries. US tarrifs have this nasty overreach, where because the PTO hands out patents for anything (valid or not, and even things patented by other people in other countries), America claims enforcement on these IPs. A Canadian can't sell his canadian made flashlight to cuba because the PTO issued a patent on LED light bulbs. This means the canadian is exporting "American Technology" and thus committing a US Federal crime. And because the US has a network of extradition countries, that puts you at risk of kidnap despite never morally having done anything wrong.
So tell me, which one is the real authoritarian?
@@rogerp566 It is not a theory, the Cuban government is the one that keeps the people in misery. They use the American embargo as an excuse. The hospitals are falling apart while the politicians build luxury hotels. All very convenient.
I wouldn't mind going to Cuba myself one day.
We go to Sri Lanka fairly regularly as my wife comes from there.
They have a similar attitude to things. Although it's different in the south of the island, it's far more different in the North, where my wife comes from.
It has been improving in Jaffna over the years, they still have cars from the 50s and 60s.
Every other shop seems to either sell and repair mobile phones or are restaurants.
I bought a fairly cheap Vivo phone from one of them. He was so happy, that he took my picture with him so he could put it up in his shop. He's never had a white tourist buy from him before.
One of my bucket-list countries to visit. Well done Hugh for another interesting video to accompany my Sunday coffee.
Wow this was a real change from the usual content, love it 🎉
These right to repair videos are getting better and better!
We agree #RightToRepair #voicesforrepair
Wow this is a nice change of pace! Going to other countries and see the state of repair culture there.
Apple is gonna get mad on Cuba lol
@@Pearloryx Not a lot that they can do. They could try bricking their phones though.
love this video, it is a welcome and refreshing change that you should do every now and then
Its really a time capule and vintage car museum. Thanks for sharing this beautiful part of the world.
Great video Mate. Have always wanted to visit Cuba, but at 27hrs travel time, maybe it'll have to be combined with a trip to North or South America instead of a dedicated trip. Love the old cars and had no idea about the embargo, so it's so good to see them work with what they have and just keep things going. Thanks Hugh
Be aware that one of the last policies Trump ever signed was to declare Cuba a “terrorist state”. In effect, the policy makes it so if you have an ESTA-accepted (automatic visa entry to USA) passport, you no longer qualify for ESTA if they find out you’ve ever visited Cuba. You’ll have to manually apply for a US visa which costs more money and time. Hopefully Biden gets around to revoking this.
It's the communism that keep these people poor. Dont be an stupid guy or girl
Never cross my mind that Hugh will be traveling to Cuba, the place where I was born. Currently living in US I can compare both countries and economies very well. True in cuba you repair anything, but you have plenty of “time”to do it. As he point out cubans have a lot of “patience”…due to they dont have more options available. Is option A or A. Is a real shame what happened to that country. Having so much human potential as Hugh point out too. Gracias a Jorge(George) for the help to Hugh. Hope someday cubans stop hitting their own heads and just move forward on the right direction.
You know why they have patience? Not many have access to UA-cam and tiktok
@@Darkest_matter thank you for the clarification.
The right direction being what?
@@kkon5ti If you visit cuba someday you’ll understand what means “moving into the right direction”.
@@cristiancruz5079 you are talking cryptic nonsense then.
This was incredible to see, thanks for sharing.
I always dreamed about visiting America once i have the opportunity, but after this video my new dream destination is Cuba, such a beautiful city and all those beautiful, old cars, and the people seem so friendly, time seems slower, imagine spending half a summer there
It's great to know that there are places that are heavily focussed on repair and re-use, unlike other countries! Though I suppose, if there is no other option, then repair is essential!
Though I would love to go to Cuba now even if only to buy one of those really nice old cars and export it across to the UK (where I live).
Try watching the series Dangerous Roads/Journeys and witness how mechanics in many countries in Africa kept their ageing vehicles alive...
Well i would happily have repair as the only option if that means that companies stop making shit products on purpose to rob people from their hard earned cash when they have to buy a new phone, car and other stuff every 3 or 4 years.
@@laszlonagy02 My man you just listed two things that change every few months in big ways, phones and cars are constantly changing because of technology, nobody's forcing you to use an old Samsung (like I am) or drive and old car
A beacon of repair and saving the planet. Thank you for this.
Just repair and reuse. Still no saving the planet.
All those old cars, so cool, and I love the diy stuff too.
I love this type of video. I would love to see more in that kind of video format
So good to see you branch out and make this content. Traveling changes you and teaches you more about yourself. Fantastic video!
Amazing content as always Hugh! Keep it up!
This was probably the best and most interesting video ive seen all year. Ill definetly go to cuba in the future!
Ahh brings back great memories, went to cuba in 2019 before covid. i loved it
Holy cow Hugh, well done! What an excellent journalistic you have told - I was admittedly ignorant to Cuba, how fascinating.
10:49 An early 90s Volvo 900 series?! How?! It's in incredible shape too.
The Citroën at 0:24 in the video is much newer. Since the beginning of 2014 you're allowed to import cars again. So someone decided to import an older Volvo.
Great production values. Music, visuals, organization, etc. Top-notch. We're not in Kansas anymore.
SALUDOS DESDE MEXICO! Amazing video, love your way of thinking, always watch your videos as a fellow technician and software engineer my self
Great video Hugh. ✔️
But you shouldn't think that the life of the Cubans is romantic because of all the old stuff. They would immediately exchange everything for new things.
Well, Karl der Beste, even if they would exchange everything, it is still romantic because more of the old world is preserved.
@@andoletube Maybe you are right. I don't know enough about Cuba.
So true, as a Cuban that left many years ago the only reason I go back is because of my family, the country itself is horrible
@@Optimusprime56241 I wish you Cubans that things will soon start to pick up economically.
It will never happen if the government is always in scandals. Poor people!
8:50 Cuba uses analog NTSC-M and digital Chinese DTMB (6 MHz Pan American DTV frequencies in UHF)
Love the cars! Glad you highlighted that
This was unexpected, but interesting to watch! Thanks, Hugh! ✌🏽
Awesome doco! Glad your dad showed it to you. Generally every poor country repairs more than Australia. India is another great example. North Korea would even be more isolated. But Cuba is also on my bucket list.
Spent a week in India when I was 14 (7 years ago)
Loved it. My father has been 6 times.
Lol... India is not a poor country 😂
It's just they show that part of the country and Westerners believe that. They just get a visual representation like that. Anyways.
In India, china the mindset of people is very different if you broke something like electronics or smartphones they try to fix that because all of the components are very cheap (cuz they're made in China and are easily available).
But America and Europeans don't have easy access to Chinese consumer markets, ao they get the parts at very high price and due to that they just better throw the broken device and go with new one✌️
Great video Hugh! Cuba teach all of us that repairing is possible, altough they do it out of necessity, it is awesome to see how creative people can be. Hope some day i can go and visit Cuba.
Such a great video! Good work Hugh
The ability they have to fix things the way they do makes me have loads of respect for them
It’s crazy how these old cars just last forever when repaired. I don’t think any modern car would last anywhere near as long as these older cars from the 50’s
Straight facts
Most of the old cars there don't use their original engines but use repurposed diesel engines. Nearly all cars in Cuba are "franken-cars", made to work using parts of other (more recent) car models and sometimes using parts that were not from cars...
@@theotherohlourdespadua1131 I saw the original 235 inside of that 1959 Chevy.
Hope you hooked him up with an iFixit kit, these guys are on the right track and soon we might all be doing this. Seeing where these right to repair laws are going, we might be forced to buy second hand stuff to repair our own on a larger scale.
Amazing video, I really love how the channel has developed
Thank you Hugh to share your expirence in cuba.
If only all countries were this good at resource management. Cuba should serve as a message to us all; you don't need to keep getting new things that you'll only keep for a year, because if you just take the time to repair it yourself, you can make it last forever. Be like Cuba.
Poverty chic?
a dictatorship?
Go live there for a year and I bet you will regret that comment.
There is 3 spoiled privileged westoids above me.
Also going back to the topic, every 3rd world countries do that, some Middle east countries, India, Indonesia, Brazil, etc. They can easily keep prolonging the life of every tech, i live in Indonesia, and a gaming console can live up 20+ years, the PS2 and PS3 market is still alive here, along with budget PC market, lots of used computers with early 2010 chips and GPU that has modded bios/overclocked.
@@AhmadWahelsa - Indonesia is ranked 110th on the Corruption Perception Index. You want me to go get other facts about your dung hole country you claim is great like Cuba.
Now that’s dedication. The whole flight ordeal must have been brutal.
Awesome video.. Gave a new perspective on Cuba & Cuban people.
I live in Uruguay and the UYU is worth ~$0.02USD, however our country is quite more stable than Cuba's, probably because there is more international import/export activity.
I’m so glad to know you visited my country. Hope your experience wasn’t that bad . I have been followed your channel years ago and I love your content. Keep it going please. Viva Cuba Libre
Dude.. you live in Cuba?
@@RMac1982 not anymore since 6 months ago, lot of cubans are leaving due to poverty and political problems
@@erierrodriguezsouto8648 I completely understand. We were there in January… it’s hard to see but I do wish the Cuban people would be allowed to flourish!
@@RMac1982 maybe someday it will, but right now is a massive exode, I’m just feel sorry for the people who remain there and struggle, most of them are kind and just want to be happy. Thank you for the support
@@erierrodriguezsouto8648 what counties are you allowed to move to?
This is a really cool video. Thx for taking time to male it
im a vietnamese,i studied in frankfurt,i go to Cuba once a month,to check the power transformer there,sometime it is damn hard to find replacement parts for those power grid
i remember having to wind the amature winding on my own since we cannot import the motor
i work for Viettel,they are the one providing cuba 4G
Que alegría ver un vídeo y entender ambos idiomas, I'm very proud from myself, born in Mexico, lived in Copenhagen and Mexico once again
It seems a crying shame that there's a country that still broadcasts analog TV and 2G phone signal when we've long thrown all the devices that use those into trash. We should have been sending them to Cuba.
I remember back in 2017 we had to get one of the local Taxis, a 1950s Chevrolet that was missing its rear door handles so they could only be opened from the outside. One of the most fun cars I’ve been in over the year. Had as big of a smile on my face as when I was in a 2019 Porsche 911. I also had a few conversations with taxi drivers, one had an old Pontiac. I showed him a picture of my dads car (back in 2017 we had a 2015 Audi SQ5) and he thought we were millionaires as in Cuba only diplomats have these cars. Would love to go back there for another holiday at some point.
Out of all cars I expected to see there, I did not really expect a Fiat 126- I think 126p / Niki / Maluch specifically as it has a plastic front bumper, quite neat.
The official rate for Cuban pesos (cup) is 1cup=0.008usd, the unofficial (most commonly used) is even lower 1cup=0.0055usd. As a Cuban, its nice to see one my favorite youtuber visiting my country.
Fantastic video Hugh! Great cultural education. Also, did I hear you correctly say that you didn't enjoy the food?
I want to know too.
We all know how incredible Cuban food is, so I am assuming he may have one of the medical conditions (especially afflicting young men) which makes eating ingredients such as beans and spices both extremely painful and physically intolerable.
Best leave it at that.
In Serbia in 90s we had total UN sanctions..like totaly nothing was allow to be imported (only way was smuggling ) ..so like whole 90s i was stuck with what we bought in 80s..so like whole 90s i used computer Amiga my parents bought me in 1989 ..similar with VCR ..i kind off learn my self how to repair it..TVs was also off course from what we bought in late 80s,we had a car from 1987
Very interesting video - never knew about this really interesting topic!
I’ve always thought about moving to Cuba and working there remotely but there are a lot of footholds to overcome to do so for anyone that needs internet.
Thats the most idiotic ideia i've read today... thank you sir.
@@LucasAlves-yb5lr you’re not very smart if you believe what you wrote because it’s an intelligent statement. Cost of living is extremely low but telecommuting is extremely difficult.
@@LucasAlves-yb5lr and everyone that agrees with you is as equally ret4rded as you. That’s the true idiotic trend.
@@RadDadisRad yeah good luck finding food tho
@@RadDadisRad I liked your statement. I mean, moving to Cuba would be pretty rough but I also think it would be a nice dream to have.
This was so interesting, I had no idea Cuba was still under a trade embargo.
you house nukes and ask the ussr to erase USA, that tends to get you under an embargo.
Too bad Trump was soft on overthrowing communism. DeSantis had more guts and it showed. The cuban minority supported himminnthe elections after he sent ships with internet during the protests so he could allow communication between the protesters.
@@vic8695 I am old enough to actually remember the Cuban Missile Crisis. I was in Kindergarten and we were sent home from school.
Trade embargo with USA , not UE or the rest of the world
@@queenmarynovelwriter5397 my grandfather caught that and said "This Regime will get us killed." He was atalking about the communist regime.
@krauses4189 spain owns a lot of resorts, UE trades en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba%E2%80%93European_Union_relations#:~:text=The%20EU%20is%20Cuba's%20second,is%20Cuba's%20biggest%20external%20investor.
Please, don't romantize the comunism. Replace the microscope with a magnifier or solder with a copper hammer.
Awesome vlog......would love to see more of these vlogs style videos occasionally.✌✌✌
AWESOME video and great idea for a series, I HOPE? 😁👍🏽
i love to learn ever bit of their repair culture, if its fixable, dont buy a new one
❤️ much love for the cubans
So what's the deal with the food in Cuba?
Bro I repaired my broken myself and have to say I am so happy it works
Great thing that you show it all for us
At least they embrace repairability. Shame many countries like USA never follow suit...
Capitalism
@@Pearloryx it's not really all about capitalism and communism and all that political stuff. It's mostly just how repair culture is treated across all nations. Hell, even the Taliban knows repairability.
@@rosaria8384 it’s ALL ABOUT capitalism. New disposables are equals to profit. In a society not focused on profit and money accumulation there’s no reason for create a thing that will last just until the next one. There’s no reason to hold on new technology just to sell the current one first until is profitable.
@@TecnoNerd lol NPC
@@rosaria8384 It literally is about capitalism and communism though. The repair culture showcased in this video is a direct result of US embargos and sanctions which stem from cold war aggression by the US against Cuba
Always amazing content Hugh! Cuba is one of my favourite countries because it preserves history and culture. Keep up the amazing videos!
It doesn’t do it as a virtue it does it because communism has stunted cuba.
I used to schooled there and been visited almost every province, it was amazing experience and peoples are lovely
I love my country, but I think it’s absurd that we still have an embargo on that country from a bygone era. I would love to visit that place one day.
I do hope sanctions will continue to leave Cuba. The more they're interacting with the world, the more it will change. Obstinately keeping the sanctions has done more to harm ordinary people, not the government they're intended to do something to.
sanctions must stay. Down with socialsim!!!! Castro enslaved the entire population.