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Cuba is in the midst of an ongoing humanitarian crisis, and October’s widespread power outages are only adding to the Cuban people’s troubles. For the last six decades, Cuba has been on the receiving end of myriad sanctions by the United States government. This blockade has proved devastating to human life.

Reporting on Cuba’s blackouts have either omitted or paid brief lip-service to the effects of U.S. sanctions on the Cuban economy, and how those sanctions have created the conditions for the crisis. Instead, media have focused on the inefficient and authoritarian Communist government as the cause of the island’s troubles.

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[–] SARGE@startrek.website 3 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

A dramatization, by someone slightly baked:

"This is my neighbor. I keep him from getting too uppity by basically making it impossible to live here, since because of Me everything is insanely expensive or they literally can't buy it.

As anyone who works for me can tell you, it's not MY fault I'm doing this. It's because I don't like the colors of their shirt. Blame the shirt. And everyone take a look at how dumb wearing this shirt makes you look! See what happens when you wear it? You end up like him EVERY TIME! For more proof just look at all these other people who's shirts I didn't like and also attempted to kill (allegedly wink wink) and see how poorly they're doing. I'm such a good neighbor. Just ask my richer neighbor. And ignore anyone inside frantically shaking their head no. Number 1!"

[–] maniel@sopuli.xyz 5 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

of course, USSR failed too because US sanctions, not because communism

[–] t3rmit3@beehaw.org 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Por que no los dos?

Reading further, it's a pretty compelling argument that sanctions are the root cause, and this kind of instability and pressure is exactly what sanctions are meant to bring about.