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Cuba suffers blackout with millions losing power after national grid fails
(www.independent.co.uk)
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This has made me curious to see what the US State department claimed requisites for lifting sanctions are:
Now, it’s debatable if that’s actually the case or just the State Department hiding a retaliatory policy behind rhetoric, but I don’t take issue with any of those, personally.
The actual issue is that all the rich people under the corrupt Batista government, which was basically a U.S. puppet government, got their shit confiscated when they fled to Florida. The U.S. has never cared about democracy and human rights but we definitely didn’t back then.
If you need evidence, the “Helms-Burton Act” sponsors were scum. Here is part of the opening to the Wikipedia article for Sen. Helms:
And Rep. Burton was corrupt as fuck. He’s still alive if anyone in Indiana wants to find his house and shit on his porch.
pretty rich for a country that is actively trying to disregard or degrade these very same demands
Leaves out the one catastrophic demand that the US actually cares about
"At the beginning of 1959 United States companies owned about 40 percent of the Cuban sugar lands - almost all the cattle ranches - 90 percent of the mines and mineral concessions - 80 percent of the utilities - and practically all the oil industry - and supplied two-thirds of Cuba's imports. ... The symbol of this shortsighted attitude is now on display in a Havana museum. It is a solid gold telephone presented to Batista by the American-owned Cuban telephone company." - JFK
That is for all intents and purposes, horseshit.
Replace all of those words with "the Florida Cuban vote, octogenarian government, and bureaucratic inertia" and you would be exponentially closer to the truth of the matter.
And before you say, or think, that is reductive or flippant, that doesn't mean it's not a more accurate representation of the actual political obstacles regarding US Cuban policy.