A day using money in Cuba

Re:A day using money in Cuba by ethbro on Monday May 25, 2020 @10:04PM (#23306782)

I mean, the US embargo is a big cause of why they're poor. But the dictatorship is the cause of that embargo.

If Cuba could trade freely with the US, their economy would be better. If Cuba were under a more free government, their economy would be better: also, they wouldn't be under a US embargo, and their economy would be even better.

Whether an ideological stance is worth the economic collateral damage is a value judgement.

But you can't say the embargo is not causal of Cuban poverty.

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Re:A day using money in Cuba by brmgb on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @04:11AM (#23308566)

> But the dictatorship is the cause of that embargo.

Well, the political ideology of the dictatorship and its unwillingness to be a puppet state of the USA are the cause of that embargo. As diplomacy in the Arabian peninsula shows, the USA has no issue with dictatorships and hereditary absolute monarchies provided they buy American weapons and fight on the appropriate side of proxy wars.

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Re:A day using money in Cuba by pasquinelli on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @01:09AM (#23307618)

The united states doesn't need to enforce a trade embargo. Cuba's government does not control the united states.

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Re:A day using money in Cuba by kingkawn on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @01:12AM (#23307634)

Poor people all over the Caribbean living in all the destitution described here and then some

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