from pete_link@lemmy.ml to world@lemmy.world on 26 Mar 19:23
https://lemmy.ml/post/45055505
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/45055501
March 26, 2026
archive.ph/3k5rEThe blockade’s effects are cascading through the system. Hospitals are canceling surgeries and sending patients home because doctors and nurses can’t commute to work. Clinics are struggling to administer treatments like chemotherapy and dialysis because of power outages.
Many ambulances are parked because drivers can’t find gas. Pharmacies are largely empty because the virtually bankrupt state is struggling to buy medicine.
Production of medicine has been mostly halted because factories run on diesel. Vaccine makers are searching for ingredients because flights that once carried them are canceled because of a lack of jet fuel. And refrigerated vaccine stocks could soon spoil if the blackouts continue.
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I’m quite sure Putin didn’t understand what kind of mess he created by helping the great cheeto to power.
Correction: Trump is deliberately killing Cubans by refusing to remove his blockade, once again avoiding consequences of playing with human lives because “nyah nyah, nyah nyah nyah, who’s gonna stop me?”
the cubans officials can leave, they are very unpopular
That’s not the US’s fight though. If Cubans aren’t a fan of their leadership they should fix it. If they can’t they can request help and setup some guarantees and deals for assistance.
I know, and I hate what they are doing, I still have family there, but the government had all the opportunities to open up, change things and keep in power. Instead, is more repression, and solutions they should did a long time ago not now that they are desperate.
Still, the solution isn’t an embargo that hurts the citizens. Humanitarian efforts would be more effective for sure. This is not in defense of the Cuban go government, but there’s no way that laying siege on an island is better for the citizens there.
it wasn’t for the citizens and never will. if that plays well, is going to be a huge win for marco rubio on the next presidential election
That has nothing to do with state borders. The electoral college is a fucked system and FPtP voting is dumb AF. What’s your alternative to states that you think would make the US a better place?
and anyway the US is involved do you like or not, it sucks but it is what it is
if the current cuban govt fails, the island will most likely become what it was before the revolution: just another USA’s brothel and cassino. With a few turncoats rich and the majority of the population exploited and living in abject poverty.
so your solutions is, we keep the current government with turncoats rich, exploited population and abject poverty? because we have that if you don’t know
Or just saying decades of American policy