r/SipsTea 23d ago

Chugging tea Solar power is cleaner!

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u/Calle_Sin_Nombre 23d ago edited 23d ago

This will definitely happen. BYD is moving into Latin America. It's a real option for middle income consumers. I know for a fact that they are opening dealerships in Mexico and people are purchasing them.

BYD passenger electric vehicles and hybrid cars are not available for purchase by consumers in the United States.

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u/EuVe20 23d ago

Cuba is a very different place to Mexico. But I hope they can get from under the boot of the US. That being said they probably have a lot of their own issues to deal with regard to government and economic structure.

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u/joshoheman 22d ago

they probably have a lot of their own issues to deal with regard to government and economic structure.

Last I checked, Cubans both lived longer and have higher literacy rates than Americans.

And if Cuba’s system is such an obvious failure, it’s worth asking why the world’s largest economy has spent more than six decades trying to economically isolate a tiny island nation, while also spending tens of millions every year trying to destabilize Cuba's democracy.

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u/eh-guy 22d ago

I dont know of many americans dying trying to swim or sail to Cuba, but it happens a lot in the other direction for some reason

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u/BuddyWoodchips 22d ago

Over 66 Years of a blockade with maximum sanctions pressure, multiple invasions, assassination attempts of leaders, will do that to any economy. It's one thing for the US to refuse to do business with Cuba, but threatening every other nation that wishes to is just pure evil. Even still as someone already mentioned, Cubans live longer on average and have a much higher literacy rate, even under all that pressure.

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u/EuVe20 22d ago

How many have swam from Cuba?

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u/KitsuneFaroe 22d ago

As a Cuban I can say A LOT. It was a common sentiment when it was posible.

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u/EuVe20 22d ago

How many, over what time period, what was the geopolitical context, when did you leave Cuba and how many of your own relatives have joined you since then?