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Cuba isn't flourishing, they're entering the first stages of food deprivation right now. They've required large state sponsorship, previously by the USSR, and m

Cuba isn't flourishing, they're entering the first stages of food deprivation right now. They've required large state sponsorship, previously by the USSR, and more recently by Venezuela, to keep from system collapse. The average income in Cuba is still close to $20 per month. May 2019 "Cuba launches widespread rationing in face of crisis" https://www.apnews.com/42b62f24be9b4e0d9f764f1a3fa9647a https://www.apnews.com/42b62f24be9b4e0d9f764f1a3fa9647a This near starvation problem isn't anything new. The same thing happened when Cuba's last sponsor, the USSR, went under. 1994 "Millions of Cubans facing starvation: Hunger is fuelling an exodus of desperate refugees, writes Phil Davison from Havana" https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/millions-of-cubans-facing-starvation-hunger-is-fuelling-an-exodus-of-desperate-refugees-writes-phil-1417691.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/millions-of-cubans-...

fao_ 7y ago
You're referring to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Period#Famine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Period#Famine From quotes like: Cuba's history of colonization included deforestation and overuse of its agricultural land. Before the crisis, Cuba used more pesticides than the U.S. Lack of fertiliser and agricultural machinery caused a shift towards organic farming and urban farming. Cuba still has food rationing for basic staples. Approximately 69% of these rationed basic staples (wheat, vegetable oils, rice, etc.) are imported.[18] Overall, however, approximately 16% of food is imported from abroad.[18] and Diaz said importing food from U.S. producers had become more complicated under Trump, forcing Cuba to search for products that were more expensive and difficult to import. it is pretty obvious that the US allowing Cuba to trade with the rest of the world would more or less 'solve' those problems.
- JackFr 7y ago
  Who is the United States stopping from trading with Cuba?
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  - fao_ 7y ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_sanctions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_sanctions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_embargo_against_Cuba https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_embargo_against_... As of 2018, the embargo, which limits American businesses from conducting trade with Cuban interests, remains in effect and is the most enduring trade embargo in modern history and The UN General Assembly has, since 1992, passed a resolution every year condemning the ongoing impact of the embargo and declaring it in violation of the Charter of the United Nations and of international law. In 2014, out of the 193-nation assembly, 188 countries voted for the nonbinding resolution, the United States and Israel voted against and the Pacific Island nations Palau, Marshall Islands and Micronesia abstained. Human-rights groups including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights have also been critical of the embargo. Critics of the embargo say that the embargo laws are too harsh, citing the fact that violations can result in up to 10 years in prison. and In a 2005 interview, George P. Shultz, who served as Secretary of State under Reagan, called the embargo "insane". Daniel Griswold, director of the Cato Institute's Center for Trade Policy Studies, criticized the embargo in a June 2009 article: The embargo has been a failure by every measure. It has not changed the course or nature of the Cuban government. It has not liberated a single Cuban citizen. In fact, the embargo has made the Cuban people a bit more impoverished, without making them one bit more free. At the same time, it has deprived Americans of their freedom to travel and has cost US farmers and other producers billions of dollars of potential exports.
    - JackFr 7y ago
      You said: >it is pretty obvious that the US allowing Cuba to trade with the rest of the world would more or less 'solve' those problems. As you pointed out the US embargo prevents Americans from trading with Cuba. It affects no one else. Virtually the entire world apart from the US is against the embargo. They are all free to trade with Cuba. At the margins, the US embargo hurts Cubans, but the bulk of their economic woes are self inflicted.
adolph 7y ago
The Castro family seems to be doing ok. https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/cuba/article223928565.html https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas...

fao_ 7y ago

You're referring to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Period#Famine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Period#Famine From quotes like: Cuba's history of colonization included deforestation and overuse of its agricultural land. Before the crisis, Cuba used more pesticides than the U.S. Lack of fertiliser and agricultural machinery caused a shift towards organic farming and urban farming. Cuba still has food rationing for basic staples. Approximately 69% of these rationed basic staples (wheat, vegetable oils, rice, etc.) are imported.[18] Overall, however, approximately 16% of food is imported from abroad.[18] and Diaz said importing food from U.S. producers had become more complicated under Trump, forcing Cuba to search for products that were more expensive and difficult to import. it is pretty obvious that the US allowing Cuba to trade with the rest of the world would more or less 'solve' those problems.

JackFr 7y ago
Who is the United States stopping from trading with Cuba?
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- fao_ 7y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_sanctions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_sanctions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_embargo_against_Cuba https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_embargo_against_... As of 2018, the embargo, which limits American businesses from conducting trade with Cuban interests, remains in effect and is the most enduring trade embargo in modern history and The UN General Assembly has, since 1992, passed a resolution every year condemning the ongoing impact of the embargo and declaring it in violation of the Charter of the United Nations and of international law. In 2014, out of the 193-nation assembly, 188 countries voted for the nonbinding resolution, the United States and Israel voted against and the Pacific Island nations Palau, Marshall Islands and Micronesia abstained. Human-rights groups including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights have also been critical of the embargo. Critics of the embargo say that the embargo laws are too harsh, citing the fact that violations can result in up to 10 years in prison. and In a 2005 interview, George P. Shultz, who served as Secretary of State under Reagan, called the embargo "insane". Daniel Griswold, director of the Cato Institute's Center for Trade Policy Studies, criticized the embargo in a June 2009 article: The embargo has been a failure by every measure. It has not changed the course or nature of the Cuban government. It has not liberated a single Cuban citizen. In fact, the embargo has made the Cuban people a bit more impoverished, without making them one bit more free. At the same time, it has deprived Americans of their freedom to travel and has cost US farmers and other producers billions of dollars of potential exports.
  - JackFr 7y ago
    You said: >it is pretty obvious that the US allowing Cuba to trade with the rest of the world would more or less 'solve' those problems. As you pointed out the US embargo prevents Americans from trading with Cuba. It affects no one else. Virtually the entire world apart from the US is against the embargo. They are all free to trade with Cuba. At the margins, the US embargo hurts Cubans, but the bulk of their economic woes are self inflicted.

adolph 7y ago

The Castro family seems to be doing ok. https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/cuba/article223928565.html https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas...