Re:10% of Cubans have left Cuba in the last year
by hollandheese on Sunday July 21, 2024 @02:17PM
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>What is their government doing that is so terrible?
Surviving while Communist.
Re:10% of Cubans have left Cuba in the last year
by phyzix5761 on Sunday July 21, 2024 @06:58PM
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My whole family was murdered by the government of Cuba because they verbally disagreed with Fidel and communism. No crimes other than speaking out were committed. That's what they're doing that is so terrible.
Re:10% of Cubans have left Cuba in the last year
by ossobuco on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @07:33AM
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That's how revolutions work, if you disagree you usually get killed.
The thing is that people would get killed for disagreeing even under Batista. If your family was happy with Batista then I don't think they were in a clean line of business.
Re:10% of Cubans have left Cuba in the last year
by zdragnar on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @10:25AM
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The US did put an arms embargo on Batista's government, though far too late given the violent suppression of the protests towards the end.
Re:10% of Cubans have left Cuba in the last year
by ossobuco on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @10:45AM
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I agree, especially considering that Batista had been sold arms until 1958, when the fights with the rebels had been ongoing for a while already (1956 I believe). The result is that Batista fought the rebels using USA weapons, embargo or not.
Re:10% of Cubans have left Cuba in the last year
by phyzix5761 on Wednesday July 24, 2024 @01:22PM
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Batista was a dictator too. No one, except criminals, liked him.
What is their government doing that is so terrible?
Anyway let's suppose Cuba is a brutal dictatorship, even though it really isn't by any metric. Why are there no sanctions on Saudi Arabia? Why no sanctions on Taiwan during the white terror? Why no sanctions on Chile when they threw alive protesters from flying helicopters? I could go on for a while.