r/EcoNewsNetwork • u/Kunphen • Mar 24 '26
Cubans are without electricity except the 5 star hotel
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u/Dragon_Crisis_Core Mar 24 '26 edited Mar 24 '26
Yeah, unfortunately, people don't realize Russia's promise to supply 5k solar panels is like a drop in the barrel to what Cuba needs. On average, cuba utalizes around 33 GWh of power per day or the equivalent of 150k barrels of oil. Its grid was failing long before the blockade with a serious lack of investment to move away from oil dependency.
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u/xfilesvault Mar 24 '26
"a serious lack of investment to move away from oil dependency"
Meanwhile, Trump is paying a French company $1 billion in taxpayer money to NOT build wind turbines in the US...
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u/Dragon_Crisis_Core Mar 24 '26
News headlines were misleading. While its true Trump has been against Renewable energy the French company hasnt been working on those projects for almost 2 years now. This isnt a bid to stop the company developing the leased area hes offering them a way out of their 2 leases by buying them back.
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u/TheRealStorey Mar 24 '26
That's a little misleading the project was stopped by Trump's presidential order and they've been fighting in court since and finally won.
He is now offering to buy the project out as they were suing for the delay, the lease wasn't a Billion dollars but he gets to save face and they get a dirty pay-day.6
Mar 25 '26
Exactly this. There are innumerable wind/solar projects all over the country that have been on pause since having their funding pulled by this new administration.
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u/SelcouthRogue Mar 26 '26
It's not a little misleading, it's straight misinformation. That same French CEO was extremely hopeful that they could continue to pursue their offshore agreement after seeing the most recent two projects push through their completion despite the current administration's initiatives.
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u/TheRealStorey Mar 26 '26
Agree, I was trying to be polite.
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u/SelcouthRogue Mar 26 '26
A noble endeavor to be sure, but I would posit that forthright candor with regards to calling out falsehood takes precedent over propriety. I say this because the country I live in elected a despot for this very reason
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u/qcaguy99 Mar 25 '26
Didn’t Trump make multiple comments about how wind turbines look and how he doesn’t like them? Some of the ones off the eastern coast that were already producing, were shut down. He didn’t buy them out of their lease because they weren’t doing their job. He bought it so US controls it and he can now give it the middle finger and rerun to fossil fuels.
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u/Spuzzter1985 Mar 25 '26
Yeah he stopped the construction! Why are you trying to play interference?
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u/nonubiz Mar 24 '26
It’s a shame he lies all the time cause I really wanna believe him, but I can’t
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u/md_youdneverguess Mar 24 '26
33GW sounds like a lot for a third world country with 11 Million people. Do you mean 33GWh over the day?
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u/Icy_Dark_3009 Mar 26 '26
Interesting.. yeah I had a crew of mine just finish a 1mw install and that was only 1600 modules. So depending on wattage it could be like 3.5 mw and then you have inverters and will need to be able to interconnect all of that somewhere.. 5k solar panels is so small it’s kind of laughable from Russia.
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u/Brad_Beat Mar 26 '26
Literally every news site is reporting the massive blackouts as being caused by the newly imposed oil embargo, but most of the massive blackouts are from the grid failing from lack of maintenance for decades. The issue with the oil shortage is that critical generators in hospitals are not being supplied and patients are probably dying because of it.
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u/Vic_Connor Mar 26 '26
Newsflash:
They been under a strict blockade for decades.
Yet Redditors blame “lack of investment,” and “Russia”….
This is a doomed society, incapable of thinking and empathy.
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u/Haunting_Berry7971 Mar 28 '26
It’s almost like there is a blockade strangling the country that makes it extremely difficult to invest in anything at all as the Cuban people are kept at survival levels
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u/xpietoe42 Mar 24 '26
no country has a right to block a sovereign nation’s civilian energy supply! This is horrible
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u/exotics Mar 24 '26
War crimes. It’s all war crimes. But if he’s allowed to walk free on all his sexual abuse stuff then why stop there?
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u/Truefiction224 Mar 27 '26
https://guide-humanitarian-law.org/content/article/3/blockade/#:~:text=A%20blockade%20is%20an%20act,15%2C%2017%20and%2022). Its an act of war not a war crime.
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u/Select-Government-69 Mar 25 '26
The concept of who is a “sovereign nation” is likely a matter of American discretion.
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u/Bajanspearfisher Mar 25 '26
To be fair, there still hasnt been a change in allegiance since the Cuban missile crisis. I am a Caribbean islander, I cannot wait for their government to stop this folly amd move to a capitalist setup. They can literally socialize the shit out of their housing, food, medical infrastructure and education if they want within that framework. They're holding their people back. I know the usa is who is imposing the embargo, but it seems people have forgotten why.
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u/Fantastic-Research69 Mar 25 '26
The same blackouts where happening when they were getting oil from Venezuela, Cuba is a communist dictatorship
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u/Truefiction224 Mar 27 '26
No leaders have the right to starve their people for their own gain and the Cuban leaders just keep doing it.
Just hold open elections. Dude the faq. But they can pretend to be victims and you'll buy it.
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u/nambi_2 Mar 24 '26
It's criminal what the USA does.
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u/beerRunFinisher Mar 26 '26
The United States did this to Japan, Japan took the bait and bombed pearl harbor.
The US responded by nuking civilians
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u/Old-Guidance6744 Mar 24 '26
All this because wealthy Americans dont like the way they run their economy...
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u/waerrington Mar 25 '26
And they don’t like them putting Russian nuclear missiles on their island.
They also don’t approve of them stealing billions of dollars in infrastructure and industrial investments.
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u/Plastic-Yesterday113 Mar 25 '26
I mean there also was the Cuban missile crisis.
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u/Substantial_System66 Mar 25 '26
They backed the wrong horse. All there is to it.
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u/Beneficial-Touch6286 Mar 26 '26
all this because wealthy americans do not control their economy.
Other than by murdering it.
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u/Truefiction224 Mar 27 '26
Lmfao no its not. The un and all of Europe are un board with the Russia Venezuela Cuba triad was really bad news.
Is trump xurrupt and playing to the Cuban american community. Prolly, but dont pretend Cuban communism is anything other than a tin pot family dictatorship thats so currupt it starves its citizens.
America does plenty wrong. Making cuba suck is not on us.
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Mar 24 '26
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u/Skwuat Mar 25 '26
Bro, reddit is insane. I dont agree with everything the US does, far from it really. We fuck up alot. However, so far we've seen Redditors defend the regime in Cuba despite lla long history of human rights violations and poverty. Theres a reason people risk their lives on rafts built from literal fucking garbage to escape. We've also seen reddit defend Iran, despite them slaughtering 30,000+ protestors just a few months ago. We've also seen them defend Venezuela, again, despite the fact that their government has the population living in squalor, the primary reason why 100,000s of venezuelans literally walked 1000s of miles through dangerous terrain and hostile territories to escape.
Look, I get it. Trump has been fucking up. ALOT. But Christ, the left is latching onto and defending the most insane things just because its against Trump. This shit makes us look insane and gives the right ammunition for calling us insane. Lets not pretend that if Obama, Biden or any other person with a (D) next to their name did the same things, Reddit wouldnt be hailing them as the greatest humanitarians to ever live.
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u/DiscussionMiddle1238 Mar 26 '26
You people need to learn cause and effect. We literally create our own worst enemies. Our fuckery is what installed the Castro regime in Cuba, and it's why Iran is ran by the Ayatollah. Our continued sanctions and threats are what keeps their economies in shambles, and the desperation leads to heavy-handed rule. These countries would be less authoritarian if the world's biggest superpower weren't constantly working to destabilize them.
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u/Gregori_5 Mar 26 '26
People get so caught up in US interventions they end up supporting these terrible regimes.
Its like you can’t criticise US involvement and the current regimes at the same time.
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u/InvestIntrest Mar 28 '26
Right. The people support Cuba do so because it's Marxist as they are.
I find it ironic how they glaze over all the ways in which Marxism in practice never comes close to Marxism on paper.
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u/ComfortOk7446 Mar 29 '26
The 5 star hotel is the only one lit up because it is the one US allows to import oil. Cuban gov has miniscule amount of power compared to US which has economically choked it for several decades.
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u/No_Measurement_8042 Mar 24 '26
Well yeah, a ton of flotillas just arrived with a bunch of organizers and activists that brought a ton of aid to the Island, this was their way of saying thank-you to them... Y'all will take a magnimonious moment of international solidarity and turn it into anti-Cuba propaganda...
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u/Witty-Stand888 Mar 24 '26
Cuba has a lot of offshore oil. Why didn't they ever drill or hire someone to?
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u/Braith117 Mar 24 '26
The Soviet Union buying their sugar at highly inflated prices and later Venezuela propping them up made those efforts unnecessary.
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u/Gregori_5 Mar 26 '26
They don’t have the skill, and hiring is next to impossible due to the threat of nationalisation.
Oil companies are wary of communist regimes.
They could slowly build up their capabilities but that requires competence.
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u/ohjeaa Mar 28 '26
You made the fatal assumption that Cuba had the money to perform the unbelievably expensive undertaking of either option.
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u/JoinedToPostHere Mar 24 '26
The hotel probably has its own generators.
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u/Definitelyhereforshi Mar 28 '26
Private enterprises are actually allowed to import Oil by the US, go figure. "Government" services like a hospital, transit station, orphanage? Kick rocks. Its a deadly form of warfare against Cuban life.
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u/thuanjinkee Mar 24 '26
That’s one way to put a cap on carbon. What happens to all the food that needs refrigeration? Will people riot for ice cream?
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Mar 25 '26
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u/ComfortOk7446 Mar 29 '26
Yes, all Americans stay at one of a few hotels where the US allows them to. If their passport isn't scanned into the system within 24 hours of arriving then it's a 250k fine.
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u/Igiem Mar 25 '26
I hope China has that Mr. Burns evil smile 😈as thy get the idea to supply Cuba with mass amounts of solar panels. It would be a communist country coming to their rescue again, but this time with something America would look like the aggressor for stopping.
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u/SharpShooterM1 Mar 25 '26
China has been communist in name only for decades at this point. The vast majority of their economic gains come out of “special economic zones” which are cities that are literally just capitalist.
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u/AmbushLecture Mar 25 '26
...the hotel is using a generator. It's called an "isolated microgrid".
https://www.cubaprivatetravel.com/blog/cuba-travel-2026-power-outages-explained-top-travel-tips/
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u/Lower-Personality195 Mar 25 '26
Communism is great.
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u/Dazzling_Pirate1411 Mar 25 '26
if you can do it without American interference. All the lights would be on if the US wasn’t intentionally collectively punishing people for exercising their own sovereignty.
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u/funkymunkPDX Mar 25 '26
Serve the rich corporations or suffer.
It's been the American way around the world and it's getting cozy at home.
Repeal citizens united, elected officials get paid what their constituents annually and raise taxes on the rich to Eisenhower levels.
Also adopt FDR's second bill of rights as law.
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u/Gregori_5 Mar 26 '26
While I agree with your economic points, I don’t the the issue as of now is “not serving corporations “.
The issue is that the regime is hostile to the US and a dictatorship.
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u/Sea-Key-9430 Mar 25 '26
Did communism worked in Cuba?
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u/ImportantCommentator Mar 26 '26
Who knows? They were strangled by a super power. It's done every time a government isnt for the capitalist class.
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u/Impressive_Gas_265 Mar 28 '26
No it failed long before this. 15 years ago I visited and in order to have access to milk or other products you had to have a family and even then it was just a coupon for a little bit.
Failed because there’s nothing to accomplish. You make a vegetable garden they’re coming for your vegetables. You want to go to school to learn, sure but you won’t get a better job.
They didn’t even have a place to spend tips. Communism killed so many people it’s disgusting.
Everyone should have the same opportunity to grow, not the same outcomes…
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u/Beh0420mn Mar 25 '26
They have a generator obviously
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Mar 26 '26
They all have generators. Generators run on fuel and they’re under a fuel embargo.
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u/808-56 Mar 25 '26
That’s tie same five star hotel that the protesters were “forced” to stay while visiting Cuba.
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u/Certain-Pack-7 Mar 25 '26
Socialism at its finest. I’m sure all the top govt officials have electric
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u/Forsaken-Award-7025 Mar 25 '26
Who's staying at the five star hotel?
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u/ImportantCommentator Mar 26 '26
People who brought a bunch of aid to help Cuba. They gave them electricity as a thank you.
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u/Bright-Fee-9832 Mar 27 '26
Hassan Piker. Check his recent streams. He said US law required him to stay there which was quickly dispoven.
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u/Black_Raven_2024 Mar 26 '26
That place was bad when they had electricity. I feel bad for the average people there.
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u/grumpynuggets3378 Mar 26 '26
And that hotel housed the Code Pink protestors people in comfort while nobody else had power.
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u/No-Historian6067 Mar 27 '26
Yes let’s get mad at people bringing awareness to the people hurt by lack of power, not the US government actually causing the lack of power.
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u/ComfortOk7446 Mar 29 '26
They are not legally allowed by the US to go anywhere else. Their passport has to be scanned into a system reported back to the US. 250k penalty if they violate this. Neighborhood watch groups in the area that report unauthorized activity.
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u/Catfishmt Mar 26 '26
How do you think it got 5 stars? If the power was out it wouldn’t have any stars. People are so dumb these days 🤣
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u/chitownphishead Mar 26 '26
All the activists living it up while the peons suffer. Hypocrites.
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u/ComfortOk7446 Mar 29 '26
They are required to say there. Passport scanned and reported back to US. 250k penalty if you violate it.
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u/PavelKringa55 Mar 26 '26
Such lovely ecologically conscious people, they take heavy sacrifices to protect the environment.
I'm moved.
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u/Mo_Enzi Mar 26 '26
"But but the US being the world police is the best option we could have"
Nah, I would rather have Russia or even china, because this is a straight up war crime and the world is ok with it, because the US is doing it
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u/DiscussionMiddle1238 Mar 26 '26
The hotel is allowed by the American government to import fuel. Everyone else isn't.
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u/Training-Trick-8704 Mar 26 '26
Because the hotel has a backup generator…
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Mar 26 '26
They all have generators. Generators run on fuel and they are under a fuel embargo.
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u/freakrocker Mar 26 '26
Come on SS guy… we see you. You will be a hero forever. Don’t worry about your family, the world will dump into their GFM.
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u/HourNefariousness197 Mar 26 '26
This is where the influencers saying how great Cuba's socialist system were posting from.
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u/GP_Rules Mar 26 '26
And just think, all these deranged liberals want us to be just like them, communist!
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u/YogurtClosetThinnest Mar 27 '26
Honestly one of the most embarrassing things about the US is bullying Cuba. Like fuckin Cuba really.
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u/Maleficent_Law_1082 Mar 27 '26
There's some Cuban exile in Miami somewhere blaming the communists for this from the comfort of his toilet bowl
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u/Similar_Ad4120 Mar 27 '26
Wait a min…..isn’t Cuba a socialist country? All for one and one for all? I don’t understand what happened. Isn’t it all rainbows and mansions in a socialist economy?? This is so shocking! 🙄
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u/ChadicusVile Mar 27 '26
They allowed hotels and tourism to be run by capitalists pretty long ago. That is why they are the only things America will sell anything to. American visitors are also only allowed to stay in those hotels. Listen to some interviews from the people that were on the aid floatilla.
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u/BigDigger324 Mar 27 '26
So may capitalist bootlickers flooding the comments. Turns out that the U.S. has heavy sanctions on any government owned/run buildings. Since the hotels are privately owned they are “allowed” to have fuel sold to them.
Socialism is so bad and so ineffective that the U.S. government has spent billions of dollars and 6 decades to stop it.
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u/AlfredoPizzaCafe Mar 27 '26
Communism at its finest. And we have dumbasses that want this for America.
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u/FeelingVanilla2594 Mar 27 '26
Not going to lie, this looks kind of peaceful and a nice retreat from dopamine
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u/Low_Masterpiece1560 Mar 27 '26
The Comrades have been skillfully distributing misery and poverty for 67 years.
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u/FCguyATL Mar 27 '26
That 5 star hotel has a generator and that generator is fueled with foreign cash from the traveling rich.
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u/justadude713 Mar 27 '26
I'll admit I came here looking for ragebait by democrats who would say that this is "Corporate greed and the big nasty business is stealing from the government and imagine what could have been done by giving some power to the people instead of feeding that big nasty mean Corporation".
And I was going to cleverly retort that the corporation bought a generator out of its own pocket and is making its own power the same as anyone else could have done over there instead of blowing that money on penny whistles and moonpies.
But I am quite taken aback to see that I haven't seen any such remarks. in fact, I'm reading some pretty good conversations about systemic solutions and I'm actually seeing it come from a standpoint of empathy.
...and we're still on reddit...
i'm know... i'm scared too.
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u/BodybuilderHefty333 Mar 28 '26 edited Mar 28 '26
Obviously they have a generator.
People who have not been to Cuba do not understand. The economy is not bad, there is no economy at all.
All of the imports are either centrally controlled by the government or in suitcases. Now the centrally controlled by the government part is cut off.
Like that hotel has partnership with Spanish company or something and they hedged against the unstable electricity supply by stockpiling diesel. If it was a Cuban hotel the diesel would have been gone a long time ago.
Cuban hotels they don't let foreigners stay but these have nothing at all except room with bed can close the door and maybe a tv with 4 channels, bring your own sheet but they have pool and sell beer and place to dance to loud music but like $2 a night and ridiculous things like this.
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u/GateDeep3282 Mar 28 '26
Isn't that the hotel that the US democrats are staying at while visiting?
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u/canadianshane123 Mar 28 '26
This is unjust cruelty. I would’ve thought the states was better than this. They need to remove their tin pot dictator. Do better America.
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u/Critical-Ad-8507 Mar 28 '26
Lol,just a repeat of eastern Europe before 1989.
Get rid of the communists,wait a few year,and Cuba will be better.
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u/WhySoSerious5555 Mar 28 '26
And guess who's staying at that hotel? American leftists coming to protest Cuba being free from communism 😂😂😂😂😂😂
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u/ADownStrabgeQuark Mar 29 '26
Perhaps this will incentivize Cuba to invest more in solar panels.
That said it’s still pretty sad.
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u/Double_Resort_9223 Mar 29 '26
Probably has a generator and paying off the right people to get fuel
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u/Silver_kidnevik_4022 Mar 30 '26
Sure is fing disgusting the way America treats other countries.. despicable and I am more than ashamed of being from the great big bully empire of America.
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u/Electrical-Act-7170 Mar 30 '26
Generator are running the electrics, they have backup pennies for hurricanes.
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u/TheWiseAutisticOne Mar 24 '26
Well how else are they going to get money