10% of Cubans have left Cuba in the last year

Re:10% of Cubans have left Cuba in the last year by logicchains on Saturday July 20, 2024 @04:20PM (#41019464)

Nobody made south America poor; like every continent poverty was the natural state. South America just did a worse job at developing the infrastructure, rule of law, institutions and culture necessary to lift itself out of poverty as fast as north America.

With the exception of Argentina, which after WW2 was one of the richest countries in the world, but through bad political choices ended up impoverishing itself.

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Re:10% of Cubans have left Cuba in the last year by marcosdumay on Saturday July 20, 2024 @04:30PM (#41019582)

That quite a wild thing to say about an entire continent whose politics were almost completely manipulated by some 2 powerful countries after WW2.

> which after WW2 was one of the richest countries in the world

Oh yeah, I wonder what changed then.

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Re:10% of Cubans have left Cuba in the last year by actionfromafar on Saturday July 20, 2024 @04:30PM (#41019576)

Idle thought - I wonder how much the German contingent had to do with these choices.

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Re:10% of Cubans have left Cuba in the last year by bugglebeetle on Saturday July 20, 2024 @04:32PM (#41019603)

If you have any desire to not be remarkably ignorant of 20th century history, I’d suggest spending a few minutes reading about who in North America did a bunch of coups and otherwise created the conditions for a lack of rule of law in South America.

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Re:10% of Cubans have left Cuba in the last year by LtWorf on Saturday July 20, 2024 @04:51PM (#41019765)

It's entirely their fault if the CIA keeps giving money to terrorists. No other country is involved with that.

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