cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/45055501
March 26, 2026
https://archive.ph/3k5rEThe blockade’s effects are cascading through the system. Hospitals are canceling surgeries and sending patients home because doctors and nurses can’t commute to work. Clinics are struggling to administer treatments like chemotherapy and dialysis because of power outages.
Many ambulances are parked because drivers can’t find gas. Pharmacies are largely empty because the virtually bankrupt state is struggling to buy medicine.
Production of medicine has been mostly halted because factories run on diesel. Vaccine makers are searching for ingredients because flights that once carried them are canceled because of a lack of jet fuel. And refrigerated vaccine stocks could soon spoil if the blackouts continue.
That’s not the US’s fight though. If Cubans aren’t a fan of their leadership they should fix it. If they can’t they can request help and setup some guarantees and deals for assistance.
I know, and I hate what they are doing, I still have family there, but the government had all the opportunities to open up, change things and keep in power. Instead, is more repression, and solutions they should did a long time ago not now that they are desperate.
if the current cuban govt fails, the island will most likely become what it was before the revolution: just another USA’s brothel and cassino. With a few turncoats rich and the majority of the population exploited and living in abject poverty.
so your solutions is, we keep the current government with turncoats rich, exploited population and abject poverty? because we have that if you don’t know
take a look at Haiti,that is a few turncoats rich and the vast majority swimming in shit, and that’s what the USA will promote in Cuba if the current govt falls and is replaced with USA’s stooges.
oh my god you can see the future
nothing magical about it, anyone with a half-functioning brain can extrapolate what will happen if you happen to know some contemporary history
sure bud
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Still, the solution isn’t an embargo that hurts the citizens. Humanitarian efforts would be more effective for sure. This is not in defense of the Cuban go government, but there’s no way that laying siege on an island is better for the citizens there.
it wasn’t for the citizens and never will. if that plays well, is going to be a huge win for marco rubio on the next presidential election
That has nothing to do with state borders. The electoral college is a fucked system and FPtP voting is dumb AF. What’s your alternative to states that you think would make the US a better place?
and anyway the US is involved do you like or not, it sucks but it is what it is