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what the US is doing to Cuba right now is one of the most barbaric crimes in its history. (thespectaclemag.substack.com)

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The truth on the other hand, is the unshakable reality that has driven every sanction, every sabotage attempt, and every assassination plot since 1959: Cuba is a threat only to an idea. It is a threat to the imperial doctrine that a small, poor nation in America’s ‘backyard’ must not be allowed to choose socialism, to provide free healthcare and education, and homes to live without the permission of Washington.
For this sin of self-determination, the crime of building a society where capital is not god, Cuba has been punished with the most enduring economic siege in modern history. This is not an ‘embargo’, which I consider to be a sterile, political term. It is a total blockade, designed to constrict and cripple. It is enforced by a plethora of laws with names like the Helms-Burton Act, which terrorises foreign companies from trading with the Island and allows the US to seize ships in international waters. Its goal, as US politician Robert Torricelli once admitted, was to…
‘Wreak havoc’.

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[-] procapra@lemmy.ml 94 points 2 months ago

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[-] Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz 72 points 2 months ago

And because all of this shit they have been throwing on the Cuba, they can claim socialism doesn’t work.

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 67 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I would say resisting 66 years of unceasing hybrid warfare from the biggest superpower in the world right next door is pretty good sign of resilient and working system.

[-] Riverside@reddthat.com 31 points 2 months ago

And yet Cuba has higher life expectancy than the US lmfao

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[-] Astrius@lemmy.ml 72 points 2 months ago

It is essentially genocide.

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[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 69 points 2 months ago

"People in socialist countries starve because we starve them"

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[-] dkr567@hexbear.net 52 points 2 months ago

Add that to the endless list of war crimes that shithole empire did/does to rest of the world.

[-] speckofrust@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 2 months ago

What what whaaaa??? I thought the US was a force for supreme goodness up until the millisecond that Trump became president.

This was most definitely the turning point. And just who were George Dubya, and Clinton, and Reagan, and Nixon, and goddamn Kissinger, and Robert McNamara, and the Dulles Brothers, and all the slave owners who founded the country?

A shining city upon a hill, manifest destiny, exceptionalism. Well-meaning promoters and protectors of democracy forever and always. Just what would the rest of the world do without you?

/s in case anyone actually needs it.

[-] amide@lemmy.ml 52 points 2 months ago

I hope and pray that the Cuban people stand together and persevere. May this be the final nail in the empire of evil.

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[-] Revolutionary_Apples@lemmy.ml 40 points 2 months ago

The fact that there has not been a unified Latin American defence coalition against the US formed is crazy to me. Us in the USA want (and more desperately need) liberation from our leadership.

[-] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 34 points 2 months ago

Isn't that why usa/cia do so much to keep them disablized?

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[-] The_Sasswagon@beehaw.org 38 points 2 months ago

I think, based on conversations I have with people in real life and read online, that the people in the US haven't challenged the 60 years of propaganda about Cuba, and believe it a totalitarian nightmare dictatorship.

I have a close friend who went to Cuba for ecological research (did you know they still have intact reefs) a few years ago, and when they would tell people they were going to Cuba, the most common reaction was a fearful "that's scary" and a confused, almost accusatory "why".

I don't think they realize that everyone else can just go to Cuba, it's only the blue US passport and a bunch of old white guys, and probably now more Cuban Americans, with their fear of communism and land reform stopping them from enjoying a very nice bottle of state owned rum and an experience of how other people live.

I'm glad other countries have been stepping up to help the people there, the Cuban people deserve happy and comfortable lives, and we clearly don't have the appetite to stop starving them of that right now. Until we shake that propagandized view, I don't imagine that will change either.

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[-] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 37 points 2 months ago

I had no problem with Cuba. Nice place to visit in winter. No Americans.

[-] Lussy@hexbear.net 35 points 2 months ago

Name a worse diaspora than Cuban Americans. Israelis don’t count

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[-] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 31 points 2 months ago

It is not even in top 10 most barbaric things USA has done in its history.

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[-] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 29 points 2 months ago

Ebough damage has been done in these last decades. This is dangerously becoming a full blown USA genocide of the Cuban people. It's unacceptable.

[-] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 22 points 2 months ago

Trying to turn an entire country into stalingrad while saying they're the good guys

[-] nukeforyou@lemmy.zip 21 points 2 months ago

Worse than what Israel is doing to Palestine?

[-] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 45 points 2 months ago

Not yet, but it's a similar action with a similar goal

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[-] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 20 points 2 months ago

They're trying to do essentially the same thing so idk why you wanna make it into the war crimes olympics over there, unless you're some shit lib attempting to diminish the crimes of these wretched states

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[-] peoflor@lemmy.ml 18 points 2 months ago

For those who say it's a hoax, look up videos of any Cuban on YouTube and turn on the subtitles.