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The truth on the other hand, is the unshakable reality that has driven every sanction, every sabotage attempt, and every assassination plot since 1959: Cuba is a threat only to an idea. It is a threat to the imperial doctrine that a small, poor nation in America’s ‘backyard’ must not be allowed to choose socialism, to provide free healthcare and education, and homes to live without the permission of Washington.
For this sin of self-determination, the crime of building a society where capital is not god, Cuba has been punished with the most enduring economic siege in modern history. This is not an ‘embargo’, which I consider to be a sterile, political term. It is a total blockade, designed to constrict and cripple. It is enforced by a plethora of laws with names like the Helms-Burton Act, which terrorises foreign companies from trading with the Island and allows the US to seize ships in international waters. Its goal, as US politician Robert Torricelli once admitted, was to…
‘Wreak havoc’.

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[-] choui4@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 hour ago

How the USA destroyed Cuba with economic sanctions

https://youtu.be/zIOw6fSOJI4

did you know that, during the Covid pandemic, the usa refused to allow countries to sell respirator parts to Cuba? Hundreds died choking on their own bile, meanwhile Cuban doctors traveled the world administer free vaccines to poor countries.

https://pca.st/episode/b9afd925-9da1-48c9-a227-d9186df15dc5

https://pca.st/episode/44db48f6-45f7-4d79-92a0-6ad596da8c6b

https://pca.st/episode/6e3f6be7-a968-4126-83ab-9dbb68278628

How the Cuban communist government changed their entire food system overnight because of sanctions

https://pca.st/episode/0b790d39-e5c7-4d9c-9633-b58690596178

How Britain plotted to spread homophobia in Cuba

https://www.declassifieduk.org/how-britain-plotted-to-spread-homophobia-in-cuba/

Here's a REAL Cuban telling you what trump has done/doing

https://pca.st/episode/5b53a084-d12e-4e76-ad85-7d4820fedbc8

Hasan on Cuba

https://youtu.be/krpC2WzXUkY

A Cuban, on Cuba: https://peertube.world/w/eh7KeUBRpKVWjfBfFRh1qU

All of American media is a psyop designed to give well meaning people an excuse to do immeasurable harm via the american military

https://youtu.be/gvxJVyvEbv0

https://guerrillahistory.libsyn.com/stand-with-cuba-against-the-state-sponsors-of-terrorism-list-w-calla-walsh-jorge-rocha

[-] Nomorereddit@lemmy.today 17 points 1 day ago

America: ill do it again

[-] Revolutionary_Apples@lemmy.ml 38 points 1 day ago

The fact that there has not been a unified Latin American defence coalition against the US formed is crazy to me. Us in the USA want (and more desperately need) liberation from our leadership.

[-] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 31 points 1 day ago

Isn't that why usa/cia do so much to keep them disablized?

[-] Star@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 1 day ago

B-b-b-bingo

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

The fact that there has not been a unified Latin American defence coalition against the US formed is crazy to me.

There has been one. It's just composed of imperial powers and their corporate proxies.

The defense coalition existed to intercede against slave revolts, anti-colonial nationalism, and Communist uprisings. It has been very successful.

Us in the USA want (and more desperately need) liberation from our leadership.

Join the club

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 11 points 1 day ago

Wanting and having the will to do what needs doing are different things.

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[-] DiscoAssBlazer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 125 points 2 days ago
[-] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 day ago

What the US is doing right now? It goes further back...

[-] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 29 points 1 day ago

Ebough damage has been done in these last decades. This is dangerously becoming a full blown USA genocide of the Cuban people. It's unacceptable.

[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 66 points 2 days ago

"People in socialist countries starve because we starve them"

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[-] procapra@lemmy.ml 91 points 2 days ago
[-] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

"One of". This is US history we're talking about - the bar is in orbit.

[-] procapra@lemmy.ml 1 points 56 minutes ago
[-] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 36 points 2 days ago

I had no problem with Cuba. Nice place to visit in winter. No Americans.

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