The Democratic People's Republic of Tankiejerk

I never said it completely blocks trade but it heavily does.

Yes, I'm sure that the grapes are just rotting on the vine for lack of international trade partners in Cuba.

When I was down there I saw Turkey had a shipping port, Canada has a strong relationship with them, China improves some of the infrastructure.

So sad that the Great Socialist Experiment can't succeed even with all these trade partners, because the capitalist dogs in the Great Satan won't subsidize them.

But the US hates what Fidel & Cuba did so they inflict the blockade on them and since it has global hegemony, succeeds.

The 'blockade' that doesn't actually block other countries from freely trading with Cuba, that includes US trade with Cuba, and that funds a fourth of Cuba's GDP by free fucking money from Cuban expats.

Truly, the US 'blockade' is the cause of Cuba's woes.

Also I work with a woman who has spent the last 50 years getting aid to Cuba that the US previously blocked, recently included 3 million syringes for the covid vaccine.

Cuba literally rejected a US offer of COVID vaccines, but go off about how the US is secretly sabotaging Cuba.

Another organization here that sends unused wasted medical supplies to Latin America just got threatened and had their license removed to send aid to Cuba by Trump.

I believe it. That's not the same as saying that 95% of Cuba's problems are because of the embargo.

These things are happening. You have the Communist Manifesto linked in the community, you should support Cuba more.

I suppose you must think we should support the Soviet Union as well, completely missing the fucking point of the comm.

At least thats what the Cubans down there had to say.

"I went down to Cuba for some Voluntourism and the Cuban people repeated the government line"

How very convincing!

Yes Cuba has internal problems and corruption but its not the source of their problems.

Christ.

Fuck off with your red-painted fascist apologia.

Oh we give them our shitty bleached chicken, good for us

So now we've gone from "THE US STOPS THE WORLD FROM TRADING WITH CUBA" to "Sure, even the US itself trades with Cuba, but US trade goods are stinky!"

Fucking fantastic, what a high-quality position we're dealing with here.

I forgot to answer. Cuba diversified their economy by funding research to their medical field to be able to trade medical care for things like oil etc

Cuba's medical field declined in the 90s, though it remains high-quality. It sure as shit didn't 'diversify' in that period.

opened up tourism (which has been the biggest part of the economy),

Waoh, and the United Snakes of Amerikkka didn't stop them with the Imperialist Blockade???

and began incredible urban garden programs to become food self-sufficient.

"To become food self-sufficient"

Wow, it would be really impressive if the Great Socialist Experiment(tm) managed to make Cuba what it was before the revolution. Maybe someday, with a lot of capitalist reforms, it'll become a net exporter of food! Then we can watch all the good little bootlickers line up to praise "Socialism with Cuban Characteristics" just like they do for the PRC.

No one’s slurping down ML propaganda, but you seem to like spreading your’s

You're fucking sitting here praising one of the great failures of ML ideology as a socialist success that only the embargo from the US is keeping down, instead of a Soviet holdover that refused meaningful reforms for some 20 years due to the intransigence of its ruling class in refusing to recognize that running the country as a plantation for a dead superpower was no longer viable (and was never a good idea in the first fucking place).

You're slurping down ML propaganda, pal.