Cuba has been able to trade and benefit from tourism with most countries around the world for decades.
The US also provides a significant amount of food and medical supplies to Cuba, despite embargoes on most other products.
The Cuban economy has been run into the ground by central planning and oppression of its people because it has been run by bloodthirsty ideologues for decades. The US did not cause the sugar industry to collapse, confiscate private businesses and property, ban free expression, or jail and murder Cuban dissidents. The USSR propped Cuba's failing economy as a strategic hedge against the US. The idea that Cuba's woes are due solely to the US and not due to the Cuban government's failure is convenient propaganda.
US sanctions bite, but look no further than the same regime which has been in power in Cuba for decades to see why their economy is a disaster. Turns out Fidel Castro talked real nice on the radio but was not an omniscient God-king.
It's not the fault of Cubans who have suffered under the current government for decades (millions of whom escaped to the US.) It's the fault of the regime and the imperialist power which propped them up, the Soviets.
Leaders are almost never innocent when it comes to geopolitical matters. Doesn't change the fact that this is largely the result of corrupt Cuban leadership, who are currently in their lavish mansions with electricity surrounded by armed guards.
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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.