Cuba's electrical grid suffers partial collapse as protests flare

Because of cuban voters in Florida.

(This is a one sided presentation. The actual history goes back further and is far more complex. Basically lots of things that the US does outside the US mirrors their internal political tug of war) In 1898, the US went to war with Spain in support of the Cuban independence movement. This was, in part, to support various US business interests in Cuba (sugar etc). After winning the war, the US granted Cuba independence in 1902 although it remained a dominant force and quite often interfered in Cuban affairs. There were ongoing debates about annexing Cuba into the US. In 1960, Fidel Castro took over Cuba in an armed revolution (against the very autocratic rule of the time that was supported by the US). While Fidel Castro was likely primarily a nationalist, he used Communism as a framework to implement his vision of Cuba. The US was very staunchly anti-communist after WW2. After taking over Cuba, Castro seized US (and other) business assets and property, nationalizing most of them without compensation. Many Cubans fled to the US (forming a community in Florida that still exists). These Cubans have been (as one would have guessed) staunchly anti-Castro and have become a political force in the US. One could say, never take property from US citizens - they have long memories. The hostility compounded with Castro inviting the USSR to place (nuclear) missiles in Cuba aimed at the US leading to the Cuban missile crisis, Bay of Pigs invasion etc under President Kennedy (1962). Ultimately the USSR pulled back from this plan, which nearly ended up starting a nuclear war, but this completely solidified and froze US government attitude towards Cuba for the next 50 years. Cuba was under strict embargo by the US. President Obama was the first to somewhat reopen diplomatic ties with Cuba. This was not without opposition. Marco Rubio (son of exiled Cubans and a Cuban-American) became a central opposing figure in the US Senate after 2012. Marco Rubio was appointed as the Secretary of State of the US in 2025 under Trump. He is the chief architect of US foreign relations and has remained staunchly anti-Cuban.

Well there is a full set of reasons. Cold war and missle crisis was the original reason although q bit obselete. To understand why you got understand a couple of things since cuban revolution. Cuba under Castro unlike most authorian countries allowed and sometimes encourage defactions and exiles. And most of ended up in south Florida. Demographics today is such that south Florida is pretty much north Cuba. And behaves as such. As these guys are against the cuban government and take a herdline stance against them. After all they all defactors/exilees. And they are now big enough to effect us politics. HRC lost Florida only because obama tried to normalise relations with Cuba. And looking at the EC, 1 of the big reasons trump won in 2016. And Rubio is a Cuban itself so the current admin has the most hardline view in terms of foreign policy. Minor fun fact, in 2026 there are almost the same number cuban in Miami as there in Havana. That should give the client on the situation.

America will always try to crush a country trying to do socialism/communism (check their history of coups in South America and East Asia) because it threatens their imperialist capitalist goal by showing people that things can be better. Money over everything.

Bullies pick on the weak

Not sure if it’s still the case but corn is still super subsidized by the government. A lot of corn is used for fructose corn syrup and which is in pretty much everything. It’s super c**** and people love using it as it lowers the cost of things. Who is the biggest natural producer for sugar? Bingo Cuba, opening up trade would f*** over all the corn farmers since they would have to compete with a superior product. Like I said not sure if that’s still the case but corn lobby has always been for the cuba embargo

Honestly, the Castro regime doesn’t even need to do much, just open up a little like China and Vietnam. They could still keep their little autocratic government if they weren’t so scared of private businesses

It’s not an old grudge the United States would rather see a failed state akin to Haiti than the communists.

Why should the Cuban government be left alone? It refuses to hold free and fair elections, and it affects the US, as instead of suppressing or mass incarcerating those opposed to the government, the Cuban government lets people leave easily, easing pressure on the government and allowing them to continue their current way of governing against the consent of the masses, over time this causes more people to be dissatisfied with how things are run in Cuba, but then again those individuals just leave, and the Cuban government doesn’t pay the western governments that those individuals flee to, so why should the west be left holding the bag because Cuba refuses to reform and hold free and fair election. If we leave dictatorships be, it sets a terrible precedent and it costs the west when you consider the refugees that leave those nations, and that’s not including the military costs of those nations choose to have military conflicts, look at Russia, Iran with all its proxy conflicts in the Middle East, North Korea and its counterfeiting of US dollars, selling of weapons to criminal organizations allegedly. My point is that to answer your question, no, we can’t just leave them alone.

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