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Re:10% of Cubans have left Cuba in the last year by kgwgk on Sunday July 21, 2024 @12:49PM (#41026319)
It’s funny how Monsanto is such an evil company [*] that it harms so many countries when it sells to them - and Cuba when it can’t.

[*] According to many people, I’m not talking about the parent comment.

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Re:10% of Cubans have left Cuba in the last year by pixl97 on Sunday July 21, 2024 @07:32PM (#41029364)
Two things seemingly in opposition can be true.
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Re:10% of Cubans have left Cuba in the last year by hkt on Thursday July 25, 2024 @09:02AM (#41068185)
The answer here is "monsanto is a de facto monopoly" - they're essentially the only company on earth that this kind of business can be done with on any kind of scale.

A decent intro to Monsanto (now Bayer, really) that covers some elements of their monopolistic behaviour: https://www.ethicalconsumer.org/home-garden/monsanto

tl;dr, there is a monopoly, and america decides if that monopoly can do business with Cuba

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