from pete_link@lemmy.ml to world@lemmy.world on 17 Apr 11:56
https://lemmy.ml/post/46058763
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/46058712
March 25, 2026
We have both seen things that will be permanently burned into our minds. People moving around in the shadows like ghosts. Mounds of foul-smelling trash in the street, with sanitation workers in the few running trucks overwhelmed by the task of collecting it—and worse, old men picking through the heaps, looking for anything they can use or sell. Live fish dying slowly in tanks filled with stagnant green water. Shopkeepers losing all of their refrigerated and frozen food. Taxi drivers calling out desperately for a fare, because tourism to the island has shrunk to a trickle. Restaurants having to close in the middle of a busy dinner service after losing power mid-meal. The look of worry on medical workers’ faces, as they contemplate rationing their remaining antibiotics or painkillers.
Our government is systematically torturing the Cuban people. It is doing so purposefully in order to extract concessions from the Cuban government. (Not human rights concessions, mind you, but favorable investment terms.) For a rich country to punish a poor country like this is morally grotesque. The issue is not difficult to grasp.
#world
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