• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I mean, the US embargo has been going on for over 60 years…

    And for over 30 the UN has been trying to end it…

    Only the US and Israel are against it. Because we back their genocides and hateful treatment of their neighbors too.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_embargo_against_Cuba

    There’s never been a logical reason for the US embargo. So yeah, I kind of get the Cuban government blaming the US as a kneejerk reaction. And I don’t believe anything my own government says about Cuba.

    That’s not even getting into the legal shit show that is Gitmo

  • Wiggle Hard@hilariouschaos.com
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    6 months ago

    Cuba is insane, tragic the people there suffer as they do. I’ll never understand how the United States can let a country so close to home fall into an absolute communist dictatorship, but then worry about what goes on a world away. Seems hypocritical. Having spoke to people from Cuba over video chat a couple of times in my life the government over there is very repressive. There is no sense of freedom, the government will seize your house in a heartbeat if they see value in it or some corrupt official just wants it for some reason. They even have an ongoing joke amongst the people that the Castro family makes love to cars because of how they overly regulate cows