Sounds like it’s a good thing the embargo is in place then… Imagine all the unhealthy shit they could lower their life expectancy with if they got it from the USA.
A lot of Medium posts are soft-paywalled nowadays: http://archive.today/pgjoQ
Reagan designated Cuba a state sponsor of terrorism, Obama removed it, Trump re-designated it, and Biden has done nothing but vote against UN resolutions calling for the end of the embargo, as recently as four months ago.
The United Nations General Assembly has passed a resolution every year since 1992 demanding the end of the US economic embargo on Cuba, with the US and Israel being the only nations to consistently vote against the resolutions.
yeah but they can’t have junkfood and plastic toys, it’s literally totalitarianism.
I remember when Vice ran a documentary about some losers in Cuba trying to give themselves AIDS as a sign of protest against the government by bogging down the health system.
It must be all the seafood they eat. Or maybe it’s that glass of rum after each meal. Maybe smoing pure tobacco leaf in cigars also helps extend your lifespan as it doesn’t contain the extra chemicals they use in cigarettes.
No it’s the free healthcare.
They don’t just have free Healthcare, they have one of the highest doctor to patient ratios in the world. It’s amazing what they’ve accomplished despite how much they’ve been screwed by sanctions. Some dumb people point to Cuba as a failure of communism, but it’s one of the greatest success stories if anything.
