Cuba : viva la vida | Deadliest Journeys

In Cuba, most roads are in good condition. But in the countryside, it's a different story! Especially since there are very few cars in working order. It must be said that for almost 60 years Cuba has been cut off from the world. The United States has placed the country under an economic embargo. New cars are almost non-existent and spare parts are almost impossible to find. The Cubans have therefore become the kings of resourcefulness, they keep cars alive, most of which date from the 1950s. They are in their image, a brilliant mechanical crossbreeding. The front seats of Diosmar's Chevrolet come from a French 404, the steering from a Romanian car, the rear seats from a Toyota, in short, in France, they would give cold sweats to more than one technical controller! Especially since the engine is nothing but a generator! Not enough to spin at full speed but enough to tow the beautiful 77-year-old American. The taxi driver breaks into a cold sweat on the descents, the Chevrolet's trajectories are rather approximate. On the banks of the river, Toa, Luis, builds his bamboo raft. No road loosens his farm, going down the river is the only way to deliver his banana production. A sweat test awaits him in the middle of the currents.
Directors: Daniel Lainé, David Geoffrion

[@SeanBenward]

What a breath of fresh air your documentaries are. A real-time glimpse into the lives of real people, doing the best they can. Inspiring work. Thank you to all the people involved for your efforts.

[@lukalukman636]

It's reuploaded from FD You tube Chanel

[@mat4263]

@@lukalukman636 Neither KZbin channel is involved in the production or creation of these documentaries. They are made by a third-party production company and then the KZbin channels pay a fee to license the content to upload on KZbin

[@JuanBarberis]

americans 🤣🤣🤣

[@wossentadesse8639]

Oh Cuba, one day i will visit you!! Met Cuban soldiers during Ethio-Somali war in 1977-79, they saved my tiny/teeny life and family too!! I am indebted and deeply in love with CUBA!! VIVA CUBA!!

[@northernadventures3332]

It’s amazing how these “on the road” documentaries can capture the spirit & culture of a nation ❤

[@snaggamwangi4809]

Watching this from #Kenya. #Nairobi #Africa. 🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪

[@engegiger]

Watching from Switzerland Aug. 10, 2024

[@angelabrothers2274]

Love your Documentaries;One Love!!❤️❤️

[@niruttubmanee4775]

พวกคุณเก่งมาก ช่วยเหลือตัวเองมาตลอด จงสู้ต่อไปเพื่อชาติของคุณ

[@real8551]

I love Cuba with my entire being. Best people and culture in the world ❤❤❤❤❤

[@EgonFarkas]

Egy letűnt kor patinája.. De manapság is szépen élnek, számomra igen izgalmas, egyszerűen csodálatos az életük! Köszönöm ,ez egy nagyon jó kisfilm lett 👍👍✌️✌️ Ja, és Luis- nak igaza van. Nagyszerű emberek..

[@markshapiro9013]

Wow!!!...I'm filled with admiration for the tenacity of these people!!!...It seems an awful shame the embargo was reinstated!...Enough already!...We are after all ONE HUMAN FAMILY!!!

[@davidshamiri1448]

The 5 man camera crew just watching them try to get the taxi unstuck

[@813.Felixx]

Cuba exports 1.5 billion and imports 5.3 billions worth of products yearly from 180+ countries all around the world. Just months ago 800+ Brand New 2020-2021-2022 Hyunday’s arrived in Mariel Port. After shipping from Korea to Panama to then United States and then finally to Cuba. All hotels in Cuba are filled with products like they do not even know what an embargo is. What embargo????? Anyone who says there is am embargo in Cuba, either does not know what they are talking about and just repeat what they get told, or simply liers. 66% of the chicken thats ate in Cuba comes from the United States. Anyone here can look up the clause to end that so terrible embargo which only prohibits americans from shopping/staying/eating at military owned business, why???! Because Cubans cannot have private businesses, all has to be for them and only them. Anyone here can look up the clause to end that so terrible embargo they blame 60 years of decline in the Island while they live luxurious lives which is 3 things: FREE PRESS, FREE AND FAIR ELECTIONS AND FREE THE POLITICAL PRISIONERS. #HumanitaryIntervention #FreeCuba #CubansAreDying #CubansNeedHelp #Cuba #CubaTravel #SOSCuba #PatriaYVida #AbajoElComunismo #CubanEmbargo #RealEmbargo #RealCuba #LibertadParaCuba #LibertadParaLosPresosPoliticos 🆘🇨🇺💔

[@tarjeik7162]

That banana-dude is a legend👏👏🤩

[@normaguadalupe]

No entiendo el bloqueo,,siempre ellos dicen ,,que estados unidos les tiene bloqueo ,,entonces el dinero americano entra alla y es el que tiene valor,,y es el que el gobierno quiere 🤔🧐🤷🤷🤷

[@timural3421]

What a people Dem beautiful and handsome wow!!! ❤❤ Love you cuban

[@floydlooney6837]

This "embargo" excuse is ridiculous. Cuba trades with most of the world, it is Cuban law that makes importing vehicles incredibly hard/expensive.

[@kimobrien.]

End the blockade if it isn't causing any problems? Why look like fools at the UN when every country votes against the blockade?

[@floydlooney6837]

@@kimobrien. it's not a blockade. No ships are prevented from going there.

[@kimobrien.]

@@floydlooney6837 Then why did the US Coast Guard turn back small craft sailing from Miami with supplies? It's trade and commercial blockade planned at the highest levels of the US Gov't to punish Cuba for throwing out the US Dictator Batista and making a socialist revolution.

[@cholodelrosari0543]

Yeah . I mean, they still have Russia and China as their trading partner. They can relax the imports of those latest Russian Ladas and Chinese BYDs to modernize Cuba road transportation

[@floydlooney6837]

@@cholodelrosari0543 Russia and China are having big economic problems themselves

[@alvencocubas8167]

Buen documental Buenísimo Saludos Del Perú zona Selva San Martín Uchiza

[@Mike_70_70]

I am Cuban and I would have liked to see this documentary, but I do not speak English and it is only in English, as are the subtitles

[@normaguadalupe]

Debo entender que si no hablas inglés pues entonces no entiendes lo que escribistes

[@bradleyrussell8180]

​@@normaguadalupeGoogle Translate

[@Mike_70_70]

​@@normaguadalupe There is Google Translate, cave dwellers.😮

[@keelyjohnson462]

6:48 exactly I was having a riding path going along too keeping all the horse breeds safe

[@architectureofuniverse]

thank you 🥰😇😍

[@stevenherrold5955]

DID YOU KNOW THAT bamboo is a type of grass just like that stuff on your lawn

[@darielfrometa9775]

The sad reality 😞 of the cuban people. Many people are suffering. We still don't know if it's because the embargo or because the cuban government 🤔. God bless my country. #nomorecommunism

[@pietrominucci6367]

O socialismo é o pai da miséria.

[@almalekfaizelbinmohammedam7105]

Love from 🇲🇾

[@yadisupriadi-yx1jo]

Negara kecil dan indah yang berani melawan hegemoni as dan sekelas as/eropa belum ada yang mampu menjamin gratis pendieikan dan kesehatan rakyanya ..salut dengan keterbatasannya ia mampu berkenbang itulah kekayaan yang sejati

[@nancystonestone9252]

Beautiful❤❤❤❤

[@cabdirisaaqosmaan9724]

Thank you

[@joeguzman3558]

Cuban people are very optimistic

[@theoldschoolracer]

Amazing people 🖤

[@fiq135]

I really salute their life which is so hard, but they can still survive. I am grateful that my life is better than theirs. I am very amazed at them.

[@konijoni9305]

Greetings from Nederland!

[@adamajanneh1998]

As the saying goes: necessity is the mother of invention. What is going to transpire over may become a Nation of invention entrepreneurs of a monumental scale.

[@asullivan4047]

Interesting/informative/entertaining. Home 🏠 of the window less taxi 🚕-!!! 😉 Along with horse drawn carriages. Not to mention oxen 🐂 transported tobacco.

[@ruivaleriano9273]

Me gustan mucho los platanos. Me recuerdo de los comer en Venezuela quando era chiquitico.

[@steago8769]

This narrator have some jokes. 😃 i could listen to him all day

[@taz5573]

Those cows can't move there heads there locked together, how uncomfortable that must be.

[@ohno-zx4if]

90 miles away from the Miami coast and there living like it’s 1905. 🤪🤪🤪🤪

[@echan275]

My great grandfather was in Cuba chopping sugar canes for 25 cents per days in the 1940s.

[@WilloSNoack]

Therefore your great grandfather was not so poor like the Cubans since 1959 and under the communist terror of Fidel Castro and his henchmen until 1959. The government of general Batista was much more better for Cuba!

[@Kaybe23]

11:08 "2 pounds per 100 kilos. it pays well." Oh dude they make at least 10x from your hard work.

[@imforfun1]

Commie propaganda

[@iEtthy]

End the embargo on cuba!

[@daleslover2771]

😂😂😂17:50 to 19:00 WOW that's amazing.

[@keelyjohnson462]

142 yeah if we built a little manufacturing shop right there like I was showing we could freeze dry the fruits on site and then ship them out with drones or on the hyperloop or make them into fresh meals right there obviously then we could ship those out to people at the hospital or if they were staying in their room cuz they felt like it or we're in quarantine or something

[@danielmarotta4465]

Hey Chris you going back to revisit The Jungle while back in Belize?

[@miriamfernandez7985]

Comprometidas con la rebolucion? Eso es por que nunca han vivido en pura libertad.

[@lopretolopreto4194]

PARA MI QUE ESA GENTE SI ES DE TRABAJO..NO COMO LA GENTE DE LAS CIUDADES.YA VEO QUE ESE ES EL PROBLEMA EN CUBA.

[@OneCrazyRay]

No farmer in the United States of America (considered the freest economic country in the world) would ever have to build their own boat for transporting their crops. Communism looks so exciting and less challenging than the huge machines the US farmers own and use for farming with quadruple the product outcome. Arturo Sandoval escaped cuba via Greece and never looked back. He became an American citizen on December 7, 1998 The Greatest Musician to have ever been born in Cuba, Arturo Sandoval.

[@vtuberterrifier484]

ho wis that less challanging, and I doubt it was very exciting for that man, it was probably gruesome labor which he didnt enjoy

[@vtuberterrifier484]

how was*

[@josevicenterodriguez3500]

A los agricultores seles Paga el Plátano a una miseria y Aquí en los Mercados Europeos tienen precios de escándalo pobrecito loque tienen que aguantar para poder Suscitir Viva Cuba

[@vtuberterrifier484]

I'm not trying to be pessimistic , but this really seemed like propaganda. it was a little too complimentary of Cuba, and what people said seemed a little forced

[@keelyjohnson462]

556 with all electric powered vehicles so you can't run out of power in the stations and the pollution goes down so we just have to station them however far away from each other like a couple hours walk or something

[@เปลวปากซอย]

ถึงผมไม่ใช่คนคิวบา แต่รับรู้ได้กับการใช้ชีวิตต่อสู้อยู่กับมัน เพื่อความอยู่รอดที่เสี่ยงกับภัยที่รออยู่เบื้องหน้า ขอพรพระเจ้าคุ้มครองทุกคน.

[@helix1061]

Resilient folks. But a hard life with little or no opportunity or upward mobility.

[@drakekiyaga9795]

Best bit I heard that's if my ears didn't lie me. It's like I was dreaming (in Cuba hospitals are free whether check up or being operated on,oh my God. Kudos to that Government). Come to Uganda it's a totally different story.

[@foddoff3982]

12:18 Good show old boy.

[@slovajednoduche9640]

Can the USA back off with embargoes and let good people in Cuba live as they want to stay connected to there own sacred relations and what makes them a great people

[@Ebube_Richard]

You declare someone your enemy and still beg them to feed you? Y'all should say the truth for once. I'm not a fan of the US but in this case of Cuba, Castro used his people to fight his personal war.

[@lambdalambdalambda257]

They would be supporting a communist government that openly doesn't allow freedom of speech. Cuba also imprisons and tortures and dissidents or people attempting to flee and had a history of killing homosexuals and sticking them into labor camps

[@VeganV5912]

Right on !!!! But poor Cubans. 60 years blockade. USA blockade the Cubans over nothing !!!!. Cubans 💵$20 a month, they are starving, because of the blockade. That is extremely Evil. Batista dictator and then Fidel Castro came and saved the people of Cuba 🇨🇺. Nixon came and blocked the Cubans and they did nothing wrong !!!!! And Batista Dictate and United States we’re friends 😈. Poor Cubans !!! 20 million Cubans. The Americans 😈blocked Covid medicine of Cubans, thousands of people kiiilled. Cubans made their own medicine now 👏👩🏽‍⚕️💉😌. And Cubans are nice and friendly and smart. Time to stop USA Government 🇺🇸😈, Cuba 🇨🇺😞. kzbin.info/www/bejne/mZOzpomVeLJ0iac .. kzbin.info/www/bejne/oZ62kp6Io9KMb80 ..

[@slovajednoduche9640]

@@lambdalambdalambda257 hey I believe in protecting sacred relationships in spirit of Christmas but did you this past year buy anything that isn’t from a tyrant operated communist country ??? Let that sink in… stop making about us and them…so let get off our ass and do something in our own community this is the thing that makes me have deep respect for many Cuban people make life out of nothing when a bully like USA mandate hate but I guess you know they are people like you and me

[@slovajednoduche9640]

@@Ebube_Richard how is Canada , USA or any demonacratic puppet show different? Don’t judge if u you don’t know your own backyard…political polarization works in governance stop empowering the corrupt

[@omarfarooq2708]

I Salut the Cube in people doing very hard work and has a American we have very long noose can reach every other countries on the planet

[@ivanbernabini3241]

viva cuba!

[@keelyjohnson462]

5:15 yeah that looks like way too much work hempcrete roads capped over so that they don't interfere with nature or you we have a ton of volunteers running around trying to link business partners.

[@user-qc1et1nd7p]

Ironically, the usa economic sanctions have left Cuba way beyond but this will attract more tourists.

[@genevievedolan1288]

When was this documentary made?

[@agildosantana1123]

Um povo que aprendeu ser bom. Pq a violência é tratada com rigor resultado, a disciplina pode até mudar um psique.

[@NestorAranguren-m8x]

The Cuban government imposes high taxes on the importation of cars from the US. Most imported cars are luxurious for the rich, only they can bear those taxes.

[@parmindersinghsidhu4734]

I can't believe USA can behave in such a bullish way. People of Cuba are wonderful hard working and USA has no right to treat them like this. Fedel was a good caring leader and I am not a communist. People have free health care compared to a rich nation like USA where people who don't have medical insurance can't afford medicine and are suffering.

[@sergioortega7640]

You seem to forget to Mention cuba is in this sad state due to the Cuban government and their oppression. Educate yourself before making misinformed Comments.

[@siaisjack]

the embargo is only for US companies. this documentary is not factual about this matter.

[@ytaxidi]

Μy friend .. if you enable translation. I will be able to read, the English pronunciation in the Greek language. thank you in advance

[@lightupthedarkness8089]

Cuba🇨🇺 great people and there culture, why USA showing hatres against these lovely people...

[@husky_47]

Dlaczego ? Bo Ci bandyci z usa myślą tylko o jednym ROSJANIE NADCHODZA @@ I sraja w portki ze strachu...

[@pietrominucci6367]

O ódio não é contra o povo. É contra o seu governo estúpido, que tomou as propriedades dos americanos no início da revolução.

[@janeshibanda7582]

Viva Cuba

[@amschelmayer.7092]

2 euros for 100 kg of bananas?! You've got to be joking! Here in Argentina they cost 1 euro per kg!

[@leojonkers3181]

I don't understand how in all these vlogs the drivers don't use a chain on their tires.

[@gus2600]

It doesn't look like many of them are going hungry .

[@ronlevon4294]

from what year this documentary ? Looks before 2020

[@chrisy3514]

Not sure but based on the year of the car 1942, and the statement that the car is 77 tears old, that would make it 2019!

[@ronlevon4294]

@@chrisy3514 I could set it from 2017 to 2020, they reminded in the end Tramp embargo, and no covid masks

[@daveomacron4301]

Cuba is my favorite country in the world, and Cubans, my favorite people. If the US were to lift the embargo and end all of the economic sanctions, Cuba would be a cultural and economic powerhouse within a decade, which is exactly why the US refuses to do so. As capitalism continues to collapse globally, plucky little socialist Cuba continues to push their revolution forward.

[@marsha32lou]

Why don't we see these bananas on the resorts?

[@keelyjohnson462]

702 a couple draft horses to pull that out of there and come in handy

[@lukalukman636]

As usual disappointment, coz it's reuploaded from FD You tube Chanel

[@juswolf22]

47:56 did they call the taxi driver a idiot lol ?

[@timmyjones1921]

Oh my in America we get upset if the bus or train is 15 minutes late , I can only wonder how we would fair if we had to swap places and live in Cuba ??

[@danrook5757]

In Cuba there is no time, in usa , everything runs on time

[@5220640]

I think Cuba is part of american continent too

[@thomasofficial1981]

Put engine oil half with diesel thats way cheaper i used like that.

[@nickolaygonchar9060]

Escape to America 😎

[@BlanketyBlank9050]

Yea Biden will let you in and give you a check

[@emasonchapfunya4255]

This must be haven for the amish and menonite commuties........they like living old!

[@JorgeGonzalez-yn7oc]

El Bambu pertenece a la la la la la la forestal , PERTENECE AL GOBIERNO Y PUNTO..

[@leomontgomery3922]

The 🤡 driver shouldn't have driven the vehicle down the hill knowing he couldn't get out

[@JorgeGonzalez-yn7oc]

BLOQUEO AMERICANO ???? DONDE ESTA ?

[@wileecoyote5929]

Embargo, not blockade

[@JorgeGonzalez-yn7oc]

@@wileecoyote5929 whatever, lo que hay es descaro..

[@ankitchand7285]

🙌

[@amadorgarcia5548]

In Europe a lot of ex-communist states prospered after the fall of the Soviet Union. Why? Because they changed their form of Governments and changed their leaders as well. When political dynasties rule, people suffers.

[@cristianjimenez4445]

Those lots states had been blocked as well? the importations of Dubai are because their not political dynasties rules? the world rulers acts like jeques are better to trust than Cuban democracy, Cuba has been block and the ones who fears the potential of Cuban system with open commerce takes their revenge to them for taking off theirs private vacation island since the revolution.

[@kimobrien.]

Prospering after the fall of the Soviet Union? You mean after Milton Freedman's prescription of "shock therapy"?

[@kennethbarr6842]

NOT A PROB JUST SET UP A FREE TRADE ZONES? WE are ON IT?

[@kevinharper1688]

It no homeless

[@muhammadmahadoum2806]

After Russia can China do something?

[@danrook5757]

I’d love to drive my jeep down that hill in full 4x 4

[@liuhai4374]

Revolution ？

[@loilasantos9679]

Canal do Loyola santo de salvador na ba cometario Brasil

[@andresbabastro4872]

La persona que hizo este documental no entiende lo que es el embargo y da opiniones sobre una Cuba que no conoce.El problema del pueblo cubano es la dictadura que lleva más de 60 años robandoselo todo.

[@ApacheBob41]

Another rerun.

[@danrook5757]

Just like history, repeats itself every 100 years

[@marcioferreira2699]

👏👏👏👏🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷

[@georgeramirez2264]

One man's junk is another man's treasure!

[@danrook5757]

They work with what they got

[@1320420]

Your translation is way off in this video. Shame on you!

[@69NOMAN69]

so a little capitalism makes life better? no way!

[@jodyswallow1008]

‘The prices are 70% more than in France’. Is that supposed to mean something? Stupid US embargo should have ended 30 years ago.

[@samsam-fu5we]

Cuántas mentiras existen en este documental

[@timcamerl9140]

Send people the stuff they need USA sends money every where else wtf Castro is gone !!!

[@StuartWhelan-up8vs]

Would it not have been easier to bring the tractor down the hill and put it up then try and push it to the tractor sure some of these bring more drama then is actually needed for views on a lot of these videos like a lorry with a hand full of fish in Africa l could of carried more on my push 🏍

[@lc8374]

So much pro government propaganda in this video. Makes the Cubans seem simple minded. “Oh yeah, the cigars made from these Tobacco leaves sell for hundreds of dollars a box but I’m totally happy with the 5 pesos the government pays me. I don’t need any more money.” What a joke!

[@eldorado1244]

First