10% of Cubans have left Cuba in the last year

Re:10% of Cubans have left Cuba in the last year by coooolbear on Saturday July 20, 2024 @06:03PM (#41020404)

We are talking about the descendants of the wealthy or dissident people who were escaping the Cuban revolution, where Cuba at the time was largely owned by foreign sugar plantations which was perpetuated by the the brutal military dictatorship of Batista, which was supported by the US government as well as organized crime (and where one ends and the other begins is sometimes unclear…)

It’s a tale as old as time!

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Re:10% of Cubans have left Cuba in the last year by Gibbon1 on Saturday July 20, 2024 @07:16PM (#41020944)

The legacy of colonialism still casts a dark shadow. You can replace who rules much easier than changing how they rule. Batista a dictator replaced by Castro another dictator.

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Re:10% of Cubans have left Cuba in the last year by tpm on Sunday July 21, 2024 @07:25AM (#41024278)

Yes and collective guilt is still wrong. Being a descendant is not a punishable deed, nor should it be. Also many professionals had to leave too.

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Re:10% of Cubans have left Cuba in the last year by Nasrudith on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @01:20AM (#41042767)

It was a better lie when "the people we robbed and killed totally deserved it" was about Kulaks. Seriously it is the same victim blaming bullshit to absolve a government of thieves.

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