‘There is no money’: Cuba fears total collapse amid grid failure and financial crisis
‘There is no money’: Cuba fears total collapse amid grid failure and financial crisis
Repeated blackouts leave residents concerned about food, water supply and Cuba’s future
Cuba’s government has spent the last days attempting to get the island’s national grid functioning after repeated island-wide blackouts. Without power, sleep becomes difficult in the heat, food spoils and the water supply fails.
Parts of Cuba’s communist system still function: the municipality sent Maria food. “We are three families here,” she said. “I live alone, the lady who lives next to me [does] also, and there are two children, the children’s mother, her aunt and an elderly man.”
A week after the blackout, the island has returned to the status quo ante with regular power cuts of up to 20 hours a day. But the crisis has left a deep, melancholy dread about the future.
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Brace yourself for waves of future Miami republican voters arriving from Cuba
Well, we can blame both of our right-wing parties for contributing to the situation by enforcing the longest running embargo. The first break from this was during the Obama administration, but it was too little too late, and we immediately returned to the previous status quo.
It’s not just an embargo, it’s a criminal blockade that every UN country except the US, Israel and Ukraine has agreed should end.
You'd think Ukraine would have some charity towards another oppressed state. I guess money speaks louder.
Survival speaks louder. Ukraine doesn't exist without the US.
The break during the Obama administration caused Florida to turn red.
No party in the US is going to touch Cuba until there is a regime change which Cuban expats approve of.
This is simply Cuban's punishing Cubans.
The wrong type of asylum seekers?
You can presumably understand where they're coming from, even if voting for the party that hates people from "shithole countries" is not in their interest.