The Cuban Embargo Explained

[@BikeGremlinUS]

US politicians (the official "good" guys): "See, communist economy doesn't work very well... they struggle already, with less than 100 years of sanctions!" A good video - very nicely explained.

[@EstesExtraordinarios]

They still trade with the US but it's limited and it's only food and certain medical products. However, there is a world full of countries Cuba can trade with.... stop using "sanctions" to justify your support of an authoritarian regime's poor economic policy.

[@andreions]

@@EstesExtraordinarios You absolute monster and demon. Can't you understand that the US has the hegemony of the other world countries and by economic means the US can just sanction any and every country that gives aid or trades with Cuba. The Cubans are at the mercy of the US and even then they are still more educated and have a better healthcare system than the US.

[@alessandrosilvafilho8527]

​@Ed A the embargo also doesn't let other countries trade with the US if they trade with Cuba, basically forcing a decision between the world superpower and a tiny island. So, even if the embargo doesn't explicitly block any country to trade with Cuba, this decision just does it instead.

[@erzhaider]

@@EstesExtraordinarios you know youre lying, just stop

[@EstesExtraordinarios]

@@erzhaider There are western goods in Cuban stores: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bKDTioyNd7yjqZY Cuba is not under a "blockade"

[@TheAndrew1987]

the reason companies dont do business with cuba even when technically allowed to (like the lift on sactions for food and medicine) is cause the embargo law is purposefully vague and companies would rather not risk it. also any ship that docks in a cuban port is banned from going to a US port for 3 months or something

[@Ajente02]

@@jean-claudelol563 The very fact they could be legally sanctioned (whether or not such sanction has historically been enforced) encourages foreign companies to not risk themselves trading with Cuba. Of course, not all of them are persuaded by these risks, but a HUGE majority of them are. By the way, the 2019 Cuban constitution recognizes private property, so your last statement is false. The Cuban government doesn't prevent nor outlaw private business as long as they comply with Cuban laws; neither they outlaw trade with US private companies (why would they do such ridiculous thing? Cuba needs trade to survive the embargo). The rhetoric of an "internal embargo" is purely anti-Cuban false propaganda.

[@yogscastwilson]

I think the ship rule is 100 days so basically 3 months

[@LittleBigPoet]

@@yogscastwilson it's 180 days, or 6 months, actually.

[@monika.alt197]

6 months, actually

[@formulatag5880]

If a communist nation NEEDS to trade with capitalist's ones its not a good nation

[@Cucom1959]

I've been waiting for more videos. Solidarity to the Amazon workers who just unionized✊

[@projectnerdhq7373]

✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼

[@Money_Fox]

yea im joking

[@Whocares512]

@@Money_Fox Okay Jeff Bezos

[@Money_Fox]

thanks for the complement@@Whocares512

[@jacksonblaakman4352]

Your videos are what first moved me from a SocDem into the realm of leftism about 5 years ago. Since then I’ve decided to study politics in university and moved halfway around the world. I am now working with multiple political organizations. Thanks so much for your content. It truly had an impact on my life.

[@BadRain007]

very inspiring! well done! can you give more details? how are you involved in politics?

[@humanwithaplaylist]

Yay!

[@Money_Fox]

which organizations

[@nathanlevesque7812]

social democracy wasn't already leftism?

[@kellyy1942]

⁠@@nathanlevesque7812by american standards, probably(hence why some people really believe Democrats to be leftist, when in reality both parties are only different flavour of Capitalism). In reality, it is a "more friendly" capitalism(so it s still on the right side of the political spectrum), which includes more social measures meant to provide a more secure life for citizens, but at the end of the day, it's still capitalism. (see the Nordic European Countries) I used to think the same way, and thought that being a SocDem was leftist, but realised it's far from. I highly suggest you research more on this subject, there are many great videos and books detailing why Social Democracies are not enough, and what are their shortcomings.

[@urgrandad4987]

The embargo on Cuba wasn't as much of an issue up until the USSR and the eastern bloc dissolved, North Korea suffered in a similiar way to Cuba after 1991

[@Tsuruchi_420]

Yeah, but Cuba is also a world apart from all the remaining socialist countries, so it's even worst now

[@SireJaxs]

@@Tsuruchi_420 we get it you’re a Marxist coping about Cuban failures and balancing “Muh embargo”

[@Tsuruchi_420]

@@SireJaxs go troll someone else kid, it's an year old comment

[@copsuicide]

@@SireJaxs do you think the embargo has a material effect on the policies of cuba's government or is it simply a minor inconvenience that just has to be worked around with some willpower and elbow grease?

[@Money_Fox]

yes it does@@copsuicide

[@ManAssome]

Imagine doing this to a tiny island nation because "they're red and baaaad" while defending and arming Saudi Arabia, a modern day semi theocratic monarchy that sends hitmen overseas to dismember dissidents.

[@SireJaxs]

we get it you’re a Marxist coping about Cuban failures and balancing “Muh embargo”

[@SireJaxs]

Also nice whataboutism, next time don’t use logical fallacies

[@ManAssome]

@@SireJaxs what’s the whataboutism here? You’re implying that Cuba and Saudi Arabia is similar?

[@Money_Fox]

they are@@ManAssome

[@Money_Fox]

they both suck we just only need the Saudis

[@Bambino_60]

I’ve known several Cubans in my life and every one of them were fantastic people. We should (U.S.) leave them alone and lift all of the sanctions.

[@insalatadipomodoro7824]

It isn't US people's fault, it's the government which has mafialike behaviours with medical companies

[@Money_Fox]

Cubans hate Castrosim

[@FREEMAYKELOSORBO]

Not 1 Cuban that has any decency would want America to lift the embargo against those communist pigs not 1 . Go live in Cuba then get back to me .

[@michaeld4861]

What the US is doing to Cuba is absolutely disgusting.

[@thirdgen377]

What about what the communist leaders did to their own people there? Moron.

[@xm377Moyocoyatzin]

What the U.S. is doing to it's own citizens is worse, at least Cubans literally have their health, they are better educated and better fed. The U.S has some of the worst public education and the worst healthcare on the planet. Everything is a damned business in the U.S. Healthcare, drugs (both legal and illegal), public safety, the prison system, and the only damned thing that is moderately beneficial is being chipped away by the banksters: Social Security!

[@ahwabanmukherjee5065]

And effective

[@JGLeon_]

actually the ass hole dias canel just wants the money for him self to abandon the country, in the mean while he is letting the capital collapse and isnt trying pr wanting to help.

[@manspeej]

@@ahwabanmukherjee5065 the 2003 invasion of Iraq was very effective as well, effective at killing around 1m civilians, overthrowing the Iraqi government and setting up a puppet government to sell oil in Us Dollars instead of Euros and the new government is super weak and incompetent making Iraq basically an obedient dog to Iran and other terrorist groups

[@garr_inc]

I heard of the embargo, but never realised how bad it truly was. Now imagine having one of the better responses to the advent of Varus with all this in place. I can only applaud Cuba!

[@Money_Fox]

its awful

[@carmelocunningham8134]

Porque la élite cubana en USA se hacen los ignorantes y continúan con la retórica de que les vendemos pollitos y la desgracia ayuda humanitaria. Dicha ayuda humanitaria es comida vencida y ropa de tercer uso. Un país no vive o se desarrolla con limosnas. En realidad ninguno tiene el valor de discutir de una forma honesta e inteligente el daño de las sanciones. Hoy alguien en broma califico ese afán de nosotros los cubanos en Miami como EL REGRESO A LA TIERRA PROMETIDA. Y es cierto , se ha convertido en una obsesión que no deja ver más allá de sus agravios. Y mientras critican a otras razas y países por sus reclamos por pasadas injusticias todavía siguen en lo mismo de más de 60 años atrás. Ya no viven en Cuba, son actualmente ciudadanos de otro país, tienen un pie en la tumba y siguen tratando de dictar el destino de una generación de cubanos que no tiene nada que ver con el pasado. Como el perro del hortelano, no comen ni dejan comer

[@thedude8810]

Little Israel learned a lot from daddy. Now is using the same techniques with Palestine.

[@azureScapegoat]

I created a spreadsheet of publicly available grant statements (that I could find) going toward some sort of propaganda campaign in Cuba. Here's the link for those who are interested: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14p-9AvjG4jxZEJHvVp90jJ5HT5XHTLwL

[@GuerreroUrbano100]

Thank you for sharing this!

[@jonseilim4321]

Cubans are just so.. inspirational

[@hypefogg9790]

Capitalist: "hey we are going to attack you because we don't like you" Communist: "Yo, that's not cool" *attacks back* Capitalist: "WHY WOULD YOU DEFEND YOURSELF YOU COMMIES"

[@handsfortoothpicks]

Commies are totally violent 🙄

[@TupolevTu16]

Love the pfp!

[@hypefogg9790]

@@TupolevTu16 thanks

[@GhostRangerr]

Capitalist Media: "Evil commies want to invade us and take away our freedom"

[@SireJaxs]

we get it you’re a Marxist coping about Cuban failures and balancing “Muh embargo”

[@patrickgallagher1161]

Thank you for this video. May the embargo end, and long live the Cuban Revolution!

[@Money_Fox]

this is why is why we need a stronger embargo

[@JoeWilikers]

@@Money_Fox Fuck that I say we liberate them. By liberate I mean conquer of course.

[@someday4099]

@@Money_Fox 🤣🤣🤣 estoy en Cuba y de acuerdo contigo 🤣🤣

[@tropicalsp4rt4n4]

Great video, truly inspirational for us living in Cuba. You make an excelent work sharing the truth about our situation. Saludos desde Cuba, camarada!

[@sandrocosta479]

Viva la Revolución, Viva El Che! ✊️

[@Brodyaga267]

Hello.I am from Ukraine.Workers of all countries unite!

[@Ajente02]

Support and strength to the Ukrainian and Russian peoples, suffering for the idiotic decisions of their leaders. No wars but class war!

[@КотВасилий-м7н]

For that to happen, both leaders should be overthrown. However it will bring more of a harm by civil wars than progress.

[@Natadangsa]

@@КотВасилий-м7н Both Putin, Zelensky, and their allies must be brought to the Church of All Saints in Yekaterinburg and be executed there. Why ? Because the church sits on the position of former Ipatiev house where the Romanovs where executed.

[@harl3quinn]

Свободу Україні, comrade. ❤️

[@Слышьты-ф4ю]

V ZhOpu Putina!

[@7outof10]

The sole fact that Cuba endures despite this is a testament of the resilience and efficiency of a socialist system

[@aturchomicz821]

Or maybe humans are just good at adapting¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@Money_Fox]

no its a non full embargo against a sorta self sufficient nation they could be basically any government system acan endure

[@Gump1405]

​@@Money_Foxmoving the goal post are we?

[@Money_Fox]

huh@@Gump1405

[@Luigidreamteamfan]

As a Cuban from Miami thank you for really highlighting how much the Embargo screws Cubans over. If there are any other sources you’ve got on the subject I’d love to learn more about the specifics of the embargo.

[@isbel8ai]

Me alegra que un cubano que vive en Miami piense para bien de los cubanos de la isla. Gracias 🙏

[@someday4099]

Si eres cubano y piensas eso tus padres te habran sacado del pais muy pequeño. Ve y preguntales por que se fueron.

[@missZoey5387]

First, as someone of Cuban descent, I appreciate this video. Second, ironically enough, the embargo and economic sanctions have only strengthened the hold Castro's government has on the island.

[@h3nder]

It's not "Castro's government", it's the government of the proletariat of Cuba. Viva 26!

[@missZoey5387]

@@h3nder Point is, the embargo has not even come close to inspiring a revolution.

[@h3nder]

@@missZoey5387 Ofc not, Yankee's probably know that. The Embargo exists to "prove" to American workers Socialism could never work because "Cuba is poor"

[@rexisnox577]

@@h3nder I mean, Castro was a dictator, a benevolent one though. (I’m doing more research on this topic don’t take it too seriously)

[@h3nder]

@@rexisnox577 Wrong

[@Megaghost_]

Very well done video, very informative! People need to know this in detail.

[@MrUtah1]

Here we see the return of the legend

[@aaav298]

Love your content!

[@azureScapegoat]

Thank you!

[@loophole285]

Every day, people straighten the hair, why not the heart? - Che Guevara

[@bertbaker7067]

@~1:55, "US trade embargo against Vietnam." After Vietnamese unification in 1976, until 1994, the US imposed an embargo against Vietnam basically identical to Cuba's. During this time, Vietnam also had to fight a war in Cambodia against US backed dictator, Pol Pot. Eventually the Vietnamese people decided they'd suffered enough, and starting in the late 1980s, elected politicians to gradually implement World Bank reforms and transition from a command based socialist economy to a mixed market-command socialist economy.

[@UltraSolution]

This comment is kinda late but other countries were affected by the embargo as well. One example is Bangladesh, they made trade with Cuba so the US sanctioned them. Then came a large famine in 1974, and as they were sanctioned international aid was difficult. All because they traded with Cuba as they needed to make money somehow.

[@moosesandmeese969]

It's quite amazing how cruel the US was to Bangladesh as well. Nixon gave the Pakistani military the weapons and equipment they used in Operation Searchlight, knowing full well it was being used for genocide. Even sent over submarines with nukes off the coast of India as a threat to not intervene in the genocide.

[@Totalinternalreflection]

The US is and always has been a blight on the world.

[@aimilize3518]

I wouldnt really say so, literally any nation in its place (a global superpower) would act in a similar way. Look at what the USSR and British Empire did to exploit their populace and make geopolitical gains to the expense of others. The US is not much different to these 2

[@average_tankie1370]

US is just another product of capitalism and imperialism

[@maxwatson9450]

WHAT WAIT NICE PFP BAE, aphex is great

[@endTHEhegemony_Today]

Couldnt agree more

[@Слышьты-ф4ю]

Any empire does.

[@Stellar_Politics]

Splendid video I appreciate anytime you feel like uploading and you've been a large inspiration to my own channel. Didn't watch yesterday assuming it was an April Fools joke but I'm glad I gave in. I knew the sanctions were absolutely horrible, I've done a lot of research myself on Cuba and its place in the world, but I never really considered it being considered a genocide and I hadn't known that all but two UN members spoke against it.

[@gromgardenlor]

Amazing video comrade :) love the editing

[@buff114]

Vietnam was under several sanctions and trade embargoes just not for as long.

[@nguyenquangminh4814]

You nailed the pronunciation of all those words

[@TinaMcCall.]

The Palestinians would like a word regarding length of active genocide, but I get your point. Great work, as always.

[@Money_Fox]

can you please teach me that joke its so funny

[@brucezhang4778]

@@Money_Fox?

[@TheParadoxGamer1]

@@brucezhang4778this guy and another are all over the comments, from my guess hes just someone who outright views an socialist, or communist nation as evil, morally wrong, and ethically atrocious.

[@Patryyyyck]

Awesome video as usual, comenting for the algorythm.

[@azureScapegoat]

Thanks for that!

[@540idioT]

please please please make a spanish version or add spanish subtitles, so much of my family needs to see this

[@datdragonfart1337]

glad to have you back

[@azureScapegoat]

Glad to be back!

[@spaghettimon3851]

¡Viva la Revolución y Fidel! ¡Viva el Socialismo! 🇨🇺 ☭

[@DAG42085]

🤮

[@ramoncontigo65]

You must be drinking too much alcohol

[@dontdrinkthewater5097]

CGP Grey but based.

[@STANKYCHEEZEMAYNE]

Cubans (real Cubans not gusanos lol) prefer "blockade" rather than "embargo" because the latter implies that it’s only isolated to US-Cuban relations i.e. "blockade" is imo a more accurate term because "embargo" doesn't fully explain how the US punishes other countries for even interacting with Cuba therefore violently stifling Cubans’ access to anything thanks for bringing more attention to this subject tho compay hasta la victoria siempre

[@SireJaxs]

we get it you’re a Marxist coping about Cuban failures and balancing “Muh embargo” Also nice job being racist saying people who fled their country and denocuned it aren’t Cubans, really goes to show your white savior complex where u love Castro but hate Cubans that disagree with you, almost reminds me of how leftists call Thomas Sowell slurs when he says racism isn’t the issue

[@Money_Fox]

what

[@lars1588]

What's wild is how Cuba consisently sends humanitarian aid _to the U.S.,_ despite how our government has treated their country. The embargo makes zero sense. Cuba is not a threat to the U.S. in any way. The only "threat" is that of a successful socialist nation- something our government simply will not let happen, unfortunately. I am amazed by the resiliency of Cubans in spite of these hardships.

[@Money_Fox]

i so counfused

[@moosesandmeese969]

Yeah Cuba sent over doctors during the pandemic. We could use the aid since we have a lower life expectancy than Cubans

[@davidbrito1867]

calling cuba a successful communist nation is laughable man it’s not successful in any regard thousands of its people are migrating to the Us and other countries while thousands more wish to do so, political freedoms are a joke you can be arrested for practically anything, food and water aren’t enough and are distributed poorly through La libreta you don’t get enough food to last the week, constant human rights abuses, recently they’re have been huge protests against he govt, terrible hdi, 13/100 freedom house score, it exports doctors because of of its stupid wishful thinking they will export ideas of communism, also many of these exported doctors end up staying in whatever country they went to, its ruled under an autocratic government, it does have pretty good gender equality in that since no citizen has real voting or political power gender doesn’t play a big role like in the US, cuba’s revolution could have been many things but it definitely wasn’t good.

[@davidbrito1867]

But continue to spew terrible opinions like the one you just gave from your ivory tower and products of the very capitalism your so opposed to

[@kevinsalmon3899]

Holy heck I found this video engaging

[@azureScapegoat]

Thank you!

[@zeitgeist5134]

When I hear someone vilify the Cuban government, I reply that we will never know how Cuba's politics and economy would have evolved if the US had never imposed an embargo. An anecdote: After Batista was deposed, Castro told his comrades that he was going to go to Washington to ask for US aid to help reform/develop Cuba. (After all, the USA was created by a revolution.). Castro's comrades laughed at him for being naive, telling him that Eisenhower would NEVER give aid to revolutionary Cuba. But Castro went to Washington, asked for aid, and was rejected. Is this anecdote true? And wouldn't it have been interesting if Cuba and the US had engaged in free and friendly trade and cultural exchange.

[@chrisgaming9567]

That anecdote is almost certainly false, Cuba was literally a US puppet before the revolution

[@DrinkTheKoolAid62]

The animosity between USA and Cuba has more to do with rich Gusanos than with any realpolitik policy

[@cypdashuhn1603]

what the hell youtube? I have the bell turned on, but youtube didn't send my a notification, i wouldn't have noticed if a friend wouldn't send me this

[@Republic_Unbowed]

Lov to see u back again

[@joelsays]

Excellent report and based on facts. Thank you for posting this.

[@DrAnarchy69]

This was a very good video.

[@azureScapegoat]

Thank you!

[@nahernandez15]

greetings from Venezuela, great work

[@SlavaBozhe]

I love the use of the Connolly quote. Tiocfaidh ár lá

[@moy2010]

I'm glad KZbin recommended me your channel! Love the topics.

[@glorytotheussr667]

I’ve missed you

[@smoke2730]

Viva la revolución!

[@sithofdarkness8927]

5 days after it was posted I finally saw this in my reccomended, and I have bell notifs on. KZbin is a mess.

[@insanitymanic]

They are still so petty that they f up so bad. And for added bonus they couldn't put Cuba under their foot

[@josedavidgarcesceballos7]

Welcome back!

[@auroraborealass]

Amazing video, Azure! 💖

[@igormarcos687]

Unitedstatsians: buy crypto and donate to Cuba Your government won't end the embargo You can help end it with your own financial means You literally owe them

[@Dhumm81]

I fail to understand how paying to "send" electrons to the computer screens of an economically *and militarily* blockaded people could possibly benefit anybody other than "crypto" speculators / Ponzi schemers.

[@vitaminluke5597]

Unfortunately, the US government is wildly unresponsive to the will of the people. Case in point, a majority of Americans when polled support some form of universal healthcare, but given the hold of the two parties, we will never get it. Every popular up rising in the USA is crushed. Even Bernie never stood a chance in the primaries, the party would never let him get even close to the presidency. If the USA were a truly representative democracy, this conversation wouldn't be occurring.

[@igormarcos687]

@@vitaminluke5597 fuck the government. Do it by your own fucking hands. Donate to Cuba. Do voluntary works organize your neighborhood to solve your problems by yourselves and exchange help with other neighborhoods. Fucking unitedstatsians and their childish dependency on the government.

[@abolfazlmaghsoodi5914]

Long live cuban revolution. Solidarity to all Cuban people.

[@moxogeni]

Long live the revolution!

[@il_vero_saspacifico6141]

The Little Marx photo on the student character's computer screen

[@Illstatefishing]

Thank you for bringing awareness to the inhumane and cruel Cuban sanctions!!!! Cuba Si!! Yankee No!!

[@simon3818]

To fuck over the people of a country this severely just because of a decades old petty grudge is despicable and unacceptable.

[@mikewg2823]

The USA says that we are the best snd that we do nothing but finding this out just disgusted me

[@michaelmappin1830]

Ty

[@rug052]

YOO NEW VIDEO

[@joselugo4536]

Is the Article II (d) of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in full operation at Puerto Rico?🏝️

[@agentorange7220]

Nice content

[@rednemesis88]

Hey Azure. I am a big fan of your channel. I have a question: I once read somewhere that the reason why Che Guevara wanted to start a revolution in Bolivia was because it shared a border with five other third world countries, each one with their own violent political histories. If Che had managed to replace the Bolivian government with one similar to that of Cuba, then revolution could've easily had spread throughout Latin America. I have tried to find this quote, or anything written by Che to attest to that. Have you ever heard about that or any stated reason that Che might have said about his attempts to revolutionize Bolivia?

[@Tsuruchi_420]

While i never heard about this statement coming from tche, internationalism tends to be very important for us socialists, so that wouldn't surprise me at all

[@kimnguyen6825]

Please make a video on Milton Friedman!

[@humanwithaplaylist]

Another very good video. Thank you. I just discovered your channel today

[@rileycase5939]

The first document’s current location: history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1958-60v06/d499

[@Lucas-sc6lr]

Let's boost this man channel

[@amandaperry660]

Cool. I really loved the historical clips.

[@caiovalenca8447]

Perfecto

[@2015Drama]

Hands off Cuba!

[@BS-bd4xo]

Same with NK btw.

[@ItzWhiz_]

My brother in Christ have you seen how North Korea operates? Even without embargoes it’s a Orwellian nightmare.

[@MouldMadeMind]

@@ItzWhiz_ therefore the united states has to make it worse. If you call nk an orwellian nightmare, I hope you can find similar words for the us.

[@ItzWhiz_]

@@MouldMadeMind You’re comparing a country that allows freedom of speech against the government/state, compared to another where if you even say one thing bad about the government, you get tied to a pole and shot with an anti-air cannon. The US is bad yeah, but the only reason you’re alive today is because the US doesn’t stoop to NK’s level. Please get better material.

[@ItzWhiz_]

@@MouldMadeMind You’re comparing a country that allows freedom of speech against the government/state, compared to another where if you even say one thing bad about the government, you get tied to a pole and “dealt with” an anti-air cannon. The US is bad yeah, but let me remind you that the only reason you’re still alive today is because the US didn’t decide to stoop down to NK’s level. Please get better material.

[@vivaldireal1741]

@@ItzWhiz_College students in America have been getting the shit beaten out of them for protesting and questioning funding slaughter of many innocent people in Gaza. But ok, continue to state how this is a free country in any scenario.

[@greevar]

That explains why America is drowning in HFCS. Cuba could produce plenty of sugar, but the embargo makes that impossible. So, they subsidize corn in America and use it in place of sugar.

[@gregrodriguez714]

Cuba sold their sugar to the USSR at subsidized prices and still could produce as much or enough. Cuba nationalized all Sugar Mills, not just the ones owned by Americans. First mistake. They put them in charge by people loyal to the Revolution, not by people with actual knowledge of the Sugar industry..! Even with the USSR willing to buy all the sugar Cuba produce, at an inflated market price, they NEVER even met their own quotas. They forced students and even medical doctors to have to "Volunteer" to go cut sugar during the harvest. You really think that people with no experience and no desire to do this kind of work can be productive? Cuba still has some of the richest land and soil in all the Caribbean, yet it cannot even produce enough food for its meager 11 million population? What did all this soil suddenly become barren without the U.S.? The embargo does not make it impossible for Cuba to produce Sugar or any other kind of agricultural produce. It's the lack of incentives for the Cuban farmers, which the Cuban government imposes on them, that prevents/inhibits growth. BTW. The US produced 8.37 Million Metric Tons of sugar this year, while Cuba only produced 410,000 Metric Tons. In 2002 the Cuban government announced that about half of Cuba's 156 sugar mills would be closed permanently. Forget biased political BS. Today in Cuba, sugar is RATIONED..! But you say that America is "Drowning"..? Open your eyes..!

[@Republic_Unbowed]

Could u also tell us about ur animation someday like I want to make these kind of video in hindi for greater audience but don't know where to start

[@azureScapegoat]

I might do that!

[@tacocatpoopracecarpooptacocat]

fantastic video as always

[@inzlt8142]

Viva Cuba, Viva el Comunismo

[@richardmann3396]

Agreed

[@TRD315]

Excellent video AzureScapegoat the U.S is a very imperialist nation and the most expansionist in human history people do not realize this but the U.S and the Western world is a global economic commercial empire and it practices neocolonialism and they basically something very similar to Zimbabwe when Mugabe did land reclamations and the British and the Americans freeze credit on Zimbabwe and Zimbabwe starved so not really surprising to me. Mugabe want Zimbabwe to be economically free and independent so they tried to take him down through neocolonialism therefore Mugabe went to Russia China North Korea Venezuela and went to the UN and vetoed power out of the MDC and Western nation to make Zimbabwe economically sovereign so there is to it my friend it exploitation is very common.

[@joseangelesmaderovilla4554]

Cuba es un pueblo extraordinario. 60 años bloqueado y no lo han doblado, a pesar de ello son de lo mejor en la region en deportes y en sus sistema educativo y de salud, envidiable. Que no pudieran hacer si no fuera por el embargo. Nuestro presidente AMLO en México ha insistido una y otra vez que ya termine el embargo y estamos de acuerdo. Nuestra solidaridad con el pueblo cubano. En Estados Unidos sus ciudadanos deberian de exigir y presionar al gobierno para que se deje de violentar al pueblo cubano que literalmente se le intentó matar de hambre.

[@harrifongostudios]

En Puerto Rico somos un pueblo sin voz. La Voluntad de los estados unidos es la voluntad de Puerto Rico. Y la razón es porque no tenemos soberanía. Esa es la position la cual los Estados Unidos quería de Cuba. Que buen ejemplos son ellos, mucha solidaridad con su pueblo igual con el mío. Y solidaridad con el pueblo de Cuba! Que sigue viviendo la revolución!

[@gregrodriguez714]

@@harrifongostudios El pueblo de Cuba no tiene VOZ! Quizas te gustaria que las boinas negras te visite, te golpeen simplemente por espresar tu opinion? En Puerto Rico hay Libertad! Los Portoriquenos pueden eligir y hasta cambiar la situacion actual si quieren y tengan la mayoria..! Que tu posicion no sea la mayoria no es culpa de los Estados Unidos. Para de quejarte. Como cuidadano Americano puedes viajar ha donde te salgas... El Cubano tiene que lanzarce en balsas y rezar para poder escapar su propio pais..!

[@CrowdPleeza]

How much of Cuba's problems are the results of the embargo vs this below? "Criticism of Centrally Planned Economies The concept of central planning is subject to heavy criticism, especially from scholars in the Austrian school of economics. One major critique, associated with Friedrich Hayek, is that central planners cannot efficiently respond to supply and demand. In a market economy, businesses respond to price signals by increasing or decreasing the production of their goods. In a planned economy, there are no price signals, so planners cannot accurately forecast which products will be needed or not adapt to changing conditions. This means that there may be unnecessary shortages or surpluses of certain goods. Another critique is that command economies may be less efficient, due to the lack of competitive pressures. While private companies must avoid waste in order to remain profitable, enterprises in a command economy have no pressure to earn profits or reduce expenses." From: Centrally Planned Economy Investopedia

[@chrisgaming9567]

Investopedia? Haven't heard of that. Like, the actual quote is rubbish but I'm genuinely interested in the source.

[@CrowdPleeza]

@@chrisgaming9567 Do some Google searches on Friedrich Hayek in relation to central planning.

[@ElectricAlien577]

100% of these criticisms are nonsense. Centrally planned economies are more efficient in every way. Also, with a name like "investapedia," you know they're peddling capitalist ideology.

[@Sebby_04]

Literally

[@micahjava]

Awesome video

[@dovtskyvladixir3238]

One day america will have it’s day.

[@Света-у9ц]

Эмбарго объявлено при Кеннеди.Он давно убит.Если бы дело было в эмбарго,страдания кубинцев прекратились бы ещё в ноябре 1963. А они продолжаются столько же, сколько продолжается власть сторонников Кастро.Совпадение?Не думаю.

[@ofimportance5458]

Cuba is not communist. It’s socialist

[@andreions]

@yetanothersnafu I laughed out loud for a few seconds because of your comment. Thanks internet stranger!

[@UmQasaann]

Communism has never been achieved as long as imperialism rules the world.

[@darkxcalibur95]

Would you be able to tell me why non-US companies are impacted by the embargo? Is it because they have shares in US enterprises or US enterprises have shares in them? Because their products have parts made in the US? Or is there more? I still have difficulties fathoming what would prevent Cuba from getting materials from other places, and I'm trying to understand this because I have a Cuban émigré colleague who says that the embargo does not do anything to Cuba, because it can trade outside the US... (which I don't believe to be fully true).

[@ElectricAlien577]

Any company that has any stake in any US business is blocked from trade with cuba. Even if they just own a share of a US company. This effectively cuts cuba off from over 90% of trade.

[@OGRussianPatriot]

I know the pain Cubans are facing, the NATO fascists have also destroyed my country Russia by destroying the USSR and installing the "liberal" dictator Yelstin who completely fucked up my country in less than a year, and my country is still suffering, solidarity with Cuba from Russia!!

[@idk-iw9kb]

Vietnam loas China and the dprk are doing fine as well

[@CUBISSSTZ]

Idk why but the name Cuba just sounds funny

[@coregraphite4377]

Great work! can I get the text script of this video? I want to translate it into Chinese so more people can know the truth. the KZbin just changed auto subtitle function, now I can no longer turn off the time stamp

[@coregraphite4377]

never mind...one of our comrade coded a html tool helping to remove the time stamp

[@statesecretscomrade4312]

And it's supposed that the US is the land of freedom.

[@PakBallandSami]

good

[@danielgyila3662]

I dont understand, if the embargo is lifted Cuba would depend economically on the US, but as the quote said at the beginning of the video, if you are dependent on the other country, your country is not free. Does that mean that Cuba would be a (technically independent) non independent socialist country if the embargo is lifted?

[@valentinbarinov]

There is nothing like a falling us flag

[@troubleman4125]

Hon the Cuban lads

[@Слышьты-ф4ю]

Psst How about "Pol Pot plans the future" documents?

[@Catthepunk]

I love how it's all just big business. The US is just too big😩

[@子豪-p5p]

Why do you have Azure as a goat what not red for socialism? Can you pls tell me what azure means ? Thx

[@Ajente02]

I think it's actually a pun. "Azure Scapegoat" (being "azure" the color between blue and cyan, like in lapis lazuli or malachite) sounds very similar to "A Sure Scapegoat" (because, well, everything wrong obviously it's the left's fault for right-wingers).

[@子豪-p5p]

@@Ajente02 ohhh I thought azure had a political background

[@bobroth1951]

This embargo has become a disgrace. Castro is long gone. There must me a solution other then just going on the way we are. No president wants to take on the challenge to come up with a solution. 60 years is way too long. This is the USA -we can negotiate an end to this embargo with a little effort. Cuba is not a military threat anymore. I say boo to all our chickenshit presidents from JFK to Biden for not trying harder to normalize relations. Yes the embargo is hurting Cubans, but it is not helping us.