"American" Patriots

Hardly. Cuba sucks because of the US's economic embargos, and American gusanos are hypocrites that protest thawing relations because they don't want people to know they got kicked out for being ruling class parasites.
Considering what Cuba has had to work with, it's done pretty well. Higher HDI than most of the second world.

Cuba seems like a very mixed bag, some of it the result of governmental policies, some of it the result of things outside of their control such as the collapse of the SU, and some of it the result of el bloqueo.

I think I'd categorize it as a failure insofar as developing socialism, but a success in proving the efficacy of what I think could be considered socialist-inspired policies or ideas. It's pretty admirable what it's been able to achieve with so little, and especially considering the circumstances it came from and what it continues to endure.

It's hard to tell what is propaganda and what the truth of the matter is sometimes though. For instance, reading about those Cuban punks (in the anti-establishment sense) that infected themselves with HIV to… I don't know, stick it to the man? The way they tell it, they were being harassed by the government, which isn't right however you slice it, but on the other hand it's in the context of the Special Period directly following the disintegration of their most major trading partner and economic supplier. They decide to infect themselves with HIV to live in plush conditions in the state-funded AIDS asylums which the punks themselves describe as being relatively luxuriously accommodated, with air conditioning, ice cream, and expert medical care, while many Cubans were going hungry.

The way it's portrayed in Western media, they're anti-authoritarian crusaders taking a valiant stand against Cuba's anti-homosexual agenda with a bold, self sacrificial political statement, but reading the descriptions that these so-called anarchists say themselves, it sounds more like a bunch of louts doing something incredibly stupid in order to abuse the government's medical system, hang out and play music all day, while thousands of their fellow cubans go without.

But I guess it ended up being a self-correcting problem.

Cubans can pirate games
Burgers have Ajit Pai
Cubans have free healthcare
Burgers have Obamacare
Cubans have safety
Burgers have over 20 school shootings in less than ayear.
Conclusion: burgerland must burn.

Also, you fucking gusanos are one of the reasons Cuba is so fucking poor by demanding the embargo stay in place.

OH MY GOD
OH MY GOD
WHATS WRONG WITH GALVIN MCGUINESS'S FACE
WHY DOES IT LOOK LIKE IT'S POINTING DOWN

Cuba punk is pretty intresting but i never said that cuba is flawless but nice post i guess

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It is partially a policy failure, but Marxism-Leninism is a dead meme anyway so that shouldn't come as much of a shock to anyone.

Geet Wilders. He is an Indo (mixed dutch-indonesian, his mom is an Indo and he was born in indonesia) and the far-right anti-immigrant politician.

It's like exactly like Soviet Russia in Cuba, you keep it in the trusted family/friends circle. Every Cuban (in theory, not in practice) is a member of the comite de defensa. So you never know who might hear you. You definitely cannot speak openly about some things.


I'm not a gusano.


Of course.


Which they earned by nationalizing and expropriating American-owned businesses and lands. I obviously don't support foreigners owning our best lands and industry but of course America would retaliate with the embargo.
Gusano means counterrevolutionary, not just rich counterrevolutionaries. Most gusanos are economic migrants that come to America like any other economic migrant. The most affected during the revolution were the Americans who owned the businesses, industries, and lands. They were the ruling class parasites.


You are right.
The Cuban govt. even gives transsexuals free operations, the Cuban government is not anti-homo. They used to be and even Fidel used to be but they changed that a while ago. Cuban culture is anti-homo because like all Spanish cultures a lo of emphasis is places on men being men, being masculine/macho.


With what internet? You gotta wait for el paquete, which means you gotta pay someone or have a friend.


I think most Cubans in America support removing the embargo. Only the Cuban-American lobbyist demand the embargo stay in place. Being exiled for political or economic reasons does not make one automatically a gusano.

Decide whether we demand thawing relationships or keeping the status quo and embargo lol. Pro tip: its the former.