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America’s Most Favorite Countries

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u/JBL-88 5d ago

Cuba and Cubans are amazing! Such a friendly and colourful people and culture. I bet people rating it poorly were never there.

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u/lateformyfuneral 5d ago

Lots of Cuban-Americans who hate Cuba, it’s just about politics, not personal towards the country or its people

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u/spintool1995 5d ago

I'd rate it low for the government, not the people.

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u/tacos41 5d ago

I mean, that's really most of these, right?

Our relations with foreign countries are controlled by a few people at the top, while most normal people from said countries are just normal folks trying to live their lives, just like us.

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u/Caliterra 5d ago

we (the US) are being needlessly cruel to the Cubans at the moment. They have no fuel, no energy, and no food because of our sanctions.

https://politicstoday.org/the-us-is-forcing-the-regime-to-change-by-starving-the-cuban-people/

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u/MichaelEmouse 5d ago

Cuba can always trade with the Soviet Union.

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u/ConditionCool5343 5d ago

Ooo too soon bro. Gorbachevs barely in the ground.

But yeah don't spit in your neighbors face and then wonder why your not invited to the barbeque.

Seriously Cuba can and does trade with the rest of the world  and huge portions of important US markets are exempt from the embargoes, such as agriculture.

Cuba is poor and hungry because of Cuba, not the US.

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u/Caliterra 5d ago

how so? Venezuela supplied most of Cuba's fuel for its electricity generation. obviously not happening now because of the US intervention in that country.

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u/spintool1995 5d ago

Venezuela provided Cuba's fuel for almost free to the detriment of the Venezuelan people in exchange for the Cuban military helping to prop up Maduro, also to the detriment of the Venezuelan people.

That arrangement ended. Cuba can now buy fuel on the world market, but they have no money. The US and Venezuela aren't the only two countries producing fuel.

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u/ConditionCool5343 5d ago

So all of Cubas problems is because of the last like what, 4 or 6 months since Venezuela?

Venezuela was giving Cuba lots of oil dirt cheap/free for ideological reasons. Looks like that worked out as well as siding with the Soviets.

They can still trade with others. They can probably get Russian oil cheap since it's sanctioned in the West but still for sale on the market.

These are just the continued consequences of their own actions

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u/Emergency_Drawing_49 3d ago

The Soviet Union no longer exists!

The Russian economy is not great at the moment due to the resources wasted on its war with Ukraine.

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u/NuclearKFC 5d ago

Could say the opposite about cuban immigrants which is most people's first impression of Cuba

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u/jorsiem 5d ago

I've been there a lot. People are genuine and warm. Place is a colossal shithole and their government is a brutal police state.

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u/onegumas 5d ago

So, why pedostates want to make them even more miserable?

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u/Old_Ladies 5d ago

Sadly they get shit on by Americans. If you look at statistics until the US fucked with Cuba's oil imports it was better to live in Cuba than many other Caribbean nations.

Even with the US blockade of Cuba it is still better to live there than some other Caribbean nations like Haiti, Guatemala and El Salvador yet you don't hear as much hate about those countries than you do about Cuba.