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Potemkin villages for the young foreign revolutionaries and misery for the locals.

• cardanome 2y ago
  I was able to travel the whole country freely. I didn't stay in some touristy hotel, I lived among Cubans. There is literally no way my experience could have been controlled by the state. People were not afraid to talk critically about their government with me and did so often.
  • nec4b 2y ago
    People are starving, leaving the country in millions, but you are still adamant they are delusional and live in a bubble. Maybe, just maybe you haven't saw and understood everything while visiting?
    • cardanome 2y ago
      No one is starving. Ever heard of something called propaganda? Are you still searching for the weapons of mass destruction that Saddam Hussein had? These people are literally paid by the government to spread anti-cuban propaganda. It is even on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_Herald#21st_century https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_Herald#21st_century > On September 8, 2006, the Miami Herald's president Jesús Díaz Jr. fired three journalists because they had allegedly been paid by the United States government to work for anti-Cuba propaganda TV and radio channels. > Less than a month later, responding to pressure from the Cuban community in Miami, Díaz resigned after reinstating the fired journalists, saying that "policies prohibiting such behavior were ambiguously communicated, inconsistently applied and widely misunderstood over many years".
      • nec4b 2y ago
        >> No one is starving. Why are you lying? https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-68434845 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-68434845 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/18/cuba-protests-food-electricity-shortage https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/18/cuba-protests-...
        • cardanome 2y ago
          Again, no one is starving. There is shortages of certain goods, yes. Starvation? No.