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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/38459476

By Salim Lamrani
Nov 1, 2025

Unanimously condemned by the international community every year since 1992, this state of siege gravely affects the well-being of the entire Cuban population—particularly the most vulnerable—and remains the principal obstacle to the country’s development. From March 2024 to February 2025, U.S. economic sanctions cost Cuba $7.55 billion—a 50 percent increase compared to the previous year—representing more than $20 million per day and nearly $15,000 per minute.

That amount is equivalent to the electricity consumption of Cuba’s 10 million inhabitants for six years. With the same sum, Cuba could fill every household’s grocery basket for six years, cover the nation’s medical needs for 22 years, or guarantee public transportation for the next six decades.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    41·
    9 hours ago

    On October 29, 2025, for the 33rd consecutive year, during the United Nations General Assembly, 165 countries demanded the lifting of the United States’ unilateral economic sanctions that have been strangling the Cuban population since 1960. Unlike the previous year—when only Israel sided with Washington in opposing the resolution presented by Havana—this time five other nations yielded to the strong pressure exerted by the Trump administration: Argentina, Hungary, North Macedonia, Paraguay, and Ukraine. Twelve other countries chose to abstain.

    What’s ironic is MAGA is fucking up the stranglehold the US has on this shit…

    They’re trying to launch a competing market in Texas because Dems control NY, they were already in motion before Mamdani, but they’re moving faster now.

    If they split NYC in half, that makes every foreign market jump up substantially. And other countries have lots of reasons to not put all their faith in America anymore.

    We capitalized on being relatively unscathed from WW2 and the fact that America is uniquely positioned geographically to avoid invasion. So it made sense to park a shit ton of gold in the interior of the United States and then move paper that represented that gold.

    But a lot of time has passed, those reasons don’t exist anymore.

    We’ll never get back the economic power were losing, but Cuba is the best example of why we shouldn’t have had it in the first place.

    • Skiluros@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      5 hours ago

      The framing of Ukraine yielding to “strong pressure” is somewhat misleading.

      Thousands of Cubans are taking part in the invasion of Ukraine. The Cuban government claims they have nothing to do with it, but there are legitimate reasons to believe that they are lying.

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        4 hours ago

        The framing of Ukraine yielding to “strong pressure” is somewhat misleading

        Not really…

        They have to vote that way to get assistance they need to survive.

        It’s not at all misleading, but it is dystopian