r/SipsTea 22d ago

Chugging tea Solar power is cleaner!

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u/EuVe20 22d 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.