Turmoil in Cuba

[Ravenlocke]

dana reposted

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Cuba is not a "disaster" because Cubans are incompetent.

Cuba is a poor country that has survived 60+ years of blockade from the richest empire on earth.

You call them "incompetent people" while ignoring that Washington has tried, every single decade, to strangle their economy, sabotage their development, and punish any country that trades with them.

The miracle is not that Cuba is poor.

The miracle is that after Bay of Pigs, assassination attempts, terrorism, sanctions, and embargoes, Cuba still has doctors, schools, and a state that never once knelt and begged for U.S. permission to exist.

If Cuba is "destroyed," what do you call a country that spends trillions on wars and still can’t give its people free healthcare, affordable housing, or debt-free education?

You look at a nation that has been economically suffocated for generations and blame the victim’s "incompetence."

I look at the same island and see something else:

A small country that refused to sell its sovereignty, and is still being punished for the crime of not wanting to be someone else’s plantation.

@marcorubio

@SecRubio

https://x.com/nxt888/status/2002345254624907741

[sdv]

Ravenlocke ... and Cuba, embattled and oppressed by America, does give its citizens free healthcare, affordable housing, debt-free education at all levels, without ramping up trillions in national debt. How come Cuba can do that but America, that is convinced of its own superiority and greatness, cannot?

Americans have been conned into believing that free healthcare, affordable housing and transport, free health care are a 'communist' threat (or even worse ... socialism, which does not work and is so evil!). It is the elite wealthy and political class that are threatened by what many countries, who are not communist or socialist, accept as basic human rights.

Cuba is changing. It was never actually a communist country, but it is moving towards allowing some measure of private business ownership, rather than moving toward communism (for Marx, communism is the end goal of socialism). I think for now it covers running a small restaurant from your home, or renting out a room in your home for visitors to the country.

[Vicus]

Mexico Continues Supplying Oil to Cuba Despite U.S. Warnings -today

The country became a key fuel supplier to the Caribbean island amid the Cuban economic and energy crisis.

On Monday, United States Energy Secretary Chris Wright confirmed that Mexico will continue supplying oil to Cuba despite warnings from U.S. President Donald Trump.

Following the U.S. attacks on Venezuela and the kidnapping of President Nicolas Maduro, Mexico became a key fuel supplier to the Caribbean island, amid the Cuban economic and energy crisis.

Wright stated that Washington is “not seeking to provoke the collapse of the Cuban government,” but rather to “negotiate” with Havana to abandon its communist system. However, Trump had reiterated that “there will be no more oil or money” for Cuba.

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel responded that bilateral relations must be based on international law, not on hostility, threats, or economic coercion. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said that if both parties agree, Mexico could mediate in a potential dialogue between the U.S. and Cuba.

She clarified that her recent conversation with Trump did not address the issue of Cuba or oil shipments, although Sheinbaum acknowledged that it could be discussed in future bilateral meetings. She noted that oil supply to Cuba is carried out within a legal framework, as an exercise of humanitarian principles.

She added that Mexico has sufficient energy resources to cover its domestic needs and maintain its support for the island, dismissing concerns among the Mexican population regarding this international commitment.

The Mexican president pointed out that oil supply aid to Cuba is of a historical nature and has been supported by different administrations, regardless of political affiliation.

https://www.telesurenglish.net/mexic...-u-s-warnings/

[Ravenlocke]

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Jan 16
"To die for the homeland is to live"

Cuba bids farewell to its 32 martyrs

https://x.com/upholdreality/status/2012196058189758639

https://x.com/upholdreality/status/2011793049970459013

[Ravenlocke]

COMBATE |🇵🇷

30,000 tons donation of Chinese rice arrives in Cuba, a country the US has tried to starve for 65 years

https://x.com/upholdreality/status/2013375498408054847

[Ravenlocke]

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This is one of my favorite forms of American self-delusion. "No one other than the US observes the Cuba sanctions."

Société Générale was fined $1.34 billion for processing $5.5 billion in Cuba-related payments.

ING was fined $619 million for Cuba wire transfers.

European banks have been hit with 83% of all US sanctions fines.

They "observe" because the alternative is financial annihilation.

If a foreign bank defies OFAC, the US Treasury can cut off their access to the US clearing system entirely.

For a global bank, losing the ability to clear dollar transactions is a corporate death sentence.

They would cease to function overnight.

That's why they obey Washington over their own governments.

The EU has a blocking statute that makes it technically illegal for European companies to comply with US extraterritorial Cuba sanctions.

They comply anyway.

Then there's the "State Sponsor of Terrorism" designation, reinstated in 2021. This label is radioactive.

Over 100 foreign banks have terminated Cuba relationships entirely since then.

It triggers automatic "enhanced due diligence" protocols in every compliance department on earth, making a $500 remittance to someone's aunt look like terrorist financing to the algorithm.

88% of global forex transactions touch the dollar.

Every dollar payment clears through New York. Touch the dollar, obey OFAC.

The US also weaponizes supply chain dominance.

For most countries, foreign products can contain up to 25% US content before Washington cares.

For Cuba, the threshold is 10%.

A Swedish ventilator with US microchips cannot be sold to a Havana hospital without a Commerce Department license.

Since 2019, Title III of Helms-Burton allows US citizens to sue foreign companies in American courts for operating on land nationalized 60 years ago.

A Spanish hotel chain can be dragged before a judge in Miami for running a resort in Varadero. Foreign investment freezes.

Over 160 countries vote against this blockade at the UN every year. Their banks still refuse Cuba transactions, because the compliance industry runs on fear.

The blockade works precisely because other countries don't get a choice.

It's an extraterritorial financial empire.

https://x.com/upholdreality/status/2013413554796237046