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Re:Cuba slashes size of daily bread ration as ingredients ru... by brigadier132 on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @01:46PM (#41583129)
- Venezuela

- North Korea

- Cuba

Three communist and socialist countries with starving populations.

North Korea trades freely and shares a border with China. Venezuela has no sanctions applied to it by the US.

We can now easily rule out sanctions as the cause of their woes so what is the other common factor between these countries?

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Re:Cuba slashes size of daily bread ration as ingredients ru... by slantedview on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @01:48PM (#41583164)
> Venezuela has no sanctions applied to it by the US

Actually: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctions_during_the_Venezuela...

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Re:Cuba slashes size of daily bread ration as ingredients ru... by brigadier132 on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @01:55PM (#41583248)
I'm going to interpret your comment as "Venezuela is starving because of US sanctions"

We actually have a really nice unintentional experiment. The Biden administration removed sanctions from Venezuela, they still had starvation after sanctions were removed.

The dictator managed to get food while the country was starving however: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDebIITJ1x0

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Re:Cuba slashes size of daily bread ration as ingredients ru... by piva00 on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @02:00PM (#41583321)
Vietnam is doing quite well though.
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