Cuba has run out of diesel and fuel oil amid US oil blockade

Working towards it but need $8-10 billion to buy enough supplies for it let alone enough electricians to wire it. Problem is everyone is broke and they don’t really have credit to pull loans as a nation….how would they pay it back issue. Electric scooters with makeshift solar charging setups are working for a few but not many.

Why don’t they just trade with China? Serious question, wouldn’t China love to support them?

Yeah he wants the fascist party his parents were part of back in power.

Rubio wants to be governor of Cuba, so when Thiel, Musk and Bezo balkanize America he has a piece of pie.

Why? Does it need a hotel?

No. Plz no more ideas

Unfortunately so many people have no idea what you are talking about.

Castro seized US owned Assets. The island was owned by US corporations and the Mafia.

I’m pretty sure they will get nothing as it’s divided up by the billionaires and Trump’s family.

>I thought it was those Cubans who were kicked out and now living n Florida who want to return to their homeland and claim back all the business's and properties that were taken off them during the revolution.  Everything else aside, yes this is the voting base that's help keep Florida red for decades. A good number of them actually left Cuba after the Revolution, but blaming Castro for everything wrong with their lives is a easy thing to do. They do exist and are loud for their size. Would they get what they want? Unlikely. But generations upon generations have built their political perspectives off this 'dream.'

HAHAH they will own nothing and cheer for it.

Why is this some sort of "gotcha"? I have relatives who had their land taken away from them when they fled Communist Romania in the 80s. They're finally getting some compensation for that now, four decades later. It's not an unreasonable thing to hope for.

Jesus would be terribly disappointed with most sects of Christianity.

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Wonder why Trump lets Putin do whatever he wants for the last ten years? Just asking for a friend.

Vlad wore a suit and asked nicely. Plus he holds all the cards.

A lot of the Cubans who left are now in Florida and make up a large voting block. Marco Rubio's parents came from Cuba, though slightly before the revolution, I believe. 

Mostly right, but an important distinction is that the USSR did not back the original revolution. The revolution was actually independent, starting with Castro and a small band of revolutionaries evading capture, operating a guerilla insurgency after returning from exile. Castro was made famous because of his talent for showmanship and fiery rhetoric. As his army of revolutionaries was very small, stories of their efforts spread via radio over the country, leading to swelling of popular support against the oppressive Batista regime. Once in power, Castro naively believed that the U.S. would still have trade relations with communist Cuba, but the U.S. chose to institute a hard-line blockade stance. Nikita Khrushev being the shrewd operator that he was, saw this opportunity and reached out to pick up trade with Cuba, and as a result, ultimately led to the Cuban Missile Crisis because the U.S. did not want the USSR having an ally so close to our borders. This "failure" by JFK, and the general sentiment that we let the evil commies gain a foothold so close to the U.S. was used by warhawks against JFK to say that he was a weak. As a result, he and then LBJ felt compelled to take a more hard-line stance on communist advances in Vietnam to show they were tough, as part of their efforts to win re-election in '64.

I think some of this is in the godfather part 2

Yes to all of that. But we all forget the nuclear escalation, and the hijackings and ransoms, and the fact that Cuba was a Soviet sandbox that Fidel was down for as long as he was alive.

Dude, not defending them, but there was a lot of bad things they did too.

Since when has the US nationalized foreign businesses? And it’s not standing up for yourself when you allow tons of foreign investment and then go and steal all the proceeds… remember they just stole those refineries with zero compensation.

Remember when they let people hijack American planes and held the people and planes for ransom? That’s some good standing up for yourself right there. Real moral stuff.

All the parts are shipped to South Florida and constructed by those Cuban kids so it's "made in the USA"*. No seriously, this isnt sarcasm.

Yea, just like the red hats. All made in 🇨🇳

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