The island is suffering from food shortages and long outages that have left some areas without power for up to 14 hours a day.
  • MonsieurMack@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    9 months ago

    At the rate young people are leaving Cuba, I really wonder what the country’s future looks like. Id say that eventually the people will get sick of this and fight back but when all your able bodied young people have left, the odds worsen. Eventually the PCC will be reigning over an empty island paradise.

    • Rapidcreek@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      That’s kind of true for all the islands. Exceptions exist of course, like Barbados which is an interesting place. Here in Florida, I meet younger people from the Caribbean all the time. Cubans lost their unique status so the younger migrate Cubans don’t automatically become US citizens anymore

    • Zirconium@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      Start accepting work visas. Take work visas from the workers when they arrive in the country? Get them a condo… profit?

        • dogslayeggs@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          9 months ago

          If only the country 60 miles away from those communists, which is coincidentally the world’s largest oil producer, weren’t embargoing them.

            • dogslayeggs@lemmy.worldEnglish
              4·
              9 months ago

              I didn’t know that, actually. I looked it up and found that while food and humanitarian aid aren’t blocked, they are required to be paid with cash and not credit. I can’t find any information about fuel being allowed. I could totally be wrong, but I couldn’t find any source to back it up.

              • Rapidcreek@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
                3·
                9 months ago

                Most fuel in the Caribbean is bought from Mexico in any case. I know that the USVI is that way, and I suspect Puerto Rico does too. The cost of transport is less. Mexico has a delivery route for fuel through the islands. But, yes, there are barges sailing from the Port of Miami twice a week with a stop in Cuba. It can carry fuel.

                I just find it interesting how some love to blame the US first for issues in other countries.

                • Ragdoll X@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  2·
                  8 months ago

                  I just find it interesting how some love to blame the US first for issues in other countries.

                  It is a known pattern. Even the article itself points out the U.S. has a hand in the current crisis:

                  The nation of 11 million is experiencing its worst economic crisis since the collapse of the Soviet bloc in the 1990s due to fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, the recent tightening of US sanctions and structural weaknesses in the economy.