The World Food Program has already transported a shipment of 144 tons of skimmed milk powder in a context of deep economic crisis in the country
  • Nix@merv.newsEnglish
    1214·
    1 year ago

    Its still absurd Cuba is under sanctions. The foreign policy of the US is so horrendous

    • jonne@infosec.pubEnglish
      483·
      1 year ago

      All because of a small constituency in one state that’s not a swing state any more.

      • Nix@merv.newsEnglish
        372·
        1 year ago

        But it ruins their economy which makes it harder to afford food

          • Nix@merv.newsEnglish
            311·
            1 year ago

            How does it hurt Cuba’s economy that people can’t do business with them? How does it hurt Cuba’s economy that the most powerful country with the most influence over the world doesn’t let people do business with Cuba? How does it hurt their economy that its a pain in the ass to travel there? You must be joking

          • AlbumEnglish
            111·
            1 year ago

            they have the whole world to trade with

            Yeah that’s not how OFAC Sanctions work…

      • WanderingVentra@lemm.eeEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        But things that help them grow food does fall under the embargo, such as farm machine parts, gas, and tools. Also, it’s still hard for them to buy food because the US males it hard to trade money, use banks, or send money back to Cuba.

      • Nix@merv.newsEnglish
        25·
        1 year ago

        Not even the CIA believes it was the fault of Cuba “In January 2022, the Central Intelligence Agency issued an interim assessment concluding that the syndrome is not the result of “a sustained global campaign by a hostile power”. Foreign involvement was ruled out in 976 cases of the 1,000 reviewed”

        Also the embargo started way before 2016 so what weird point you have there to try and justify the richest government in the world punishing one of the poorest countries while it also bombs countless other countries.

  • maness300@lemmy.worldEnglish
    193·
    1 year ago

    They deserve it, considering how unfairly they are treated by capitalists and their useful idiots.

    • BastingChemina@slrpnk.netEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      I was on a small carribean islands during covid, part of the Commonwealth.

      A lot of doctors sent from Cuba came to support us and we received plenty of equipment from Taiwan too.

      From the US, China or the UK ? Nothing

      • febra@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        So what do countries need to get that food then? And what is stopping them from getting it? Couldn’t it be that inhumane sanctions are causing a financial disaster and by extension people can’t afford to import the things they need?

        • Rapidcreek@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          13·
          1 year ago

          In Cuba, the state buys the commodities and provides them to the people. The people get ration books that allows them to obtain various goods. For milk, I think the rule is that nobody over 7 gets any. Communist countries aren’t very good at planning for these kind of things. Remember when Venezuela ran out of toilet paper? So, the answer to your question is perhaps budget correctly, not spend as much on their military etc, and purchase milk instead.

    • jonne@infosec.pubEnglish
      455·
      1 year ago

      I wonder if there’s anything different that would cause it to be harder for them to import things.

        • ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.worldEnglish
          211·
          1 year ago

          Yeah, food which can only be traded for with cash. Which is in short supply because there are some sort of restrictions on Cuba’s ability to trade commodities and raw resources for cash.

            • WanderingVentra@lemm.eeEnglish
              6·
              1 year ago

              If it’s purely because they don’t have much worth trading then why not lift the embargo and give them access to world trade, banks, and resources again? What’s the harm?

                • WanderingVentra@lemm.eeEnglish
                  6·
                  1 year ago

                  The US embargo also affects other countries. They don’t let ships dock at Cuba and then the US, for example. The reason they get oil from Venezuela is because they’re also iced out of much of the world market by US through sanctions.

                  Also, the US is 80 miles off the coast of Cuba and huge. Them not being available to trade with Cuba is a huge disadvantage.

    • eskimofry@lemmy.worldEnglish
      233·
      1 year ago

      If cuba wasn’t under sanctions, the playing field would be level. Yet you still blame it on communism as if it’s the only reason.

        • WanderingVentra@lemm.eeEnglish
          5·
          1 year ago

          Then why the embargo? Surely communism would ruin the country enough on its own and they could just lift it…

            • WanderingVentra@lemm.eeEnglish
              8·
              1 year ago

              There’s an embargo on literally everything else that makes it hard to get food, including they have difficulty even transferring money, or getting the parts and machines to grow their own food, or oil to run them.

              • Rapidcreek@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
                112·
                1 year ago

                Not at all. Nice try though. If you want to buy them milk, the barges leave the US twice a week. I’m sure they’ll appreciate it.

      • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldEnglish
        39·
        1 year ago

        The only thing America allows them to import is weapons for armed groups that want to overthrow the Cuban government. I hear those are subsidized…