Comments by "VisibilityFoggy" (@VisibilityFoggy) on "Could You Live In This Country? 🇨🇺" video.

Poland is too modern and developed these days for Bald. Never met people who loved the conversion to capitalism as much as my Polish friends!
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@libertyordeaf - A trade embargo with one country doesn't produce this. There are tons of pharmaceutical manufacturers in Latin America (including Nicaragua, which is politically friendly with Cuba) pumping out every medication known to man. Cuba resembles, almost identically, most other communist states, albeit with palm trees added in. It's not by coincidence that all of these countries failed in the exact same ways. Perhaps the people of Cuba should have a chance to hold a free and fair election. If they want to continue under the current system, they can choose to do so. My strong guess is that they would not. Ultimately, this is always the verdict on socialist countries – as soon as people can escape or overthrow their disastrous authoritarian governments, they do. The only reason this has not happened in Cuba is because they have one of the most advanced and effective intelligence services in the world (despite having no food or medicine for their people). The G2 (also known as DGI) is powerful and ruthless when it comes to dissent. Frankly, I wonder if there will be repercussions to some of the folks who spoke out in this video.
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@pjd412 - So what was this video about, then? Is Bald now a CIA covert operative? Are all the people on the streets lining up for basic necessities actors? C'mon. The stores can't even make coffee because there's no water. "Access" to healthcare is worthless if there are no physicians readily available and no medications to treat your condition. And in the US, by law anyone who seeks treatment must be treated, and there are government programs that provide full healthcare coverage to the poor.
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@adamhurter6454 - As so many have in this comments section, you're placing far too much importance on a single country's trade embargo. Did you not notice the brand new Chinese taxi in this very video? Did you not know that Nicaragua, one of Cuba's closest allies, has a thriving pharmaceutical manufacturing industry? Cuba can trade with plenty of countries across the world and in their own backyard – the problem is that they cannot afford any of the items that they need to import because socialism failed, is failing, and will continue to fail. A few extra American tourists and bottles of rum aren't going to make a difference. I wish all of the socialists commenting here (who are probably typing this from their Apple laptops after driving their BMW home from work) could explain why Cuba is so afraid to have free and fair elections. Is it because they are afraid their utopian dream government would be thrown out the next day? After all, the people are literate and well-educated, as you say. They can clearly read a ballot.
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@danielgyllenbreider - What you've described is the "lowest common denominator" approach – ie. paying an unskilled laborer and a physician nearly identically so they appear more "equal." Eventually, the entire system collapses under its own weight and inequitable redistribution of wealth from those whose skills are in demand to those whose skills are not. If the choices are trickle-down wealth or trickle-up poverty, I'll take my chances with the former.
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@dutcher777 - What disaster? Cuba can buy whatever it wants, from any country in the world, except one. If the US ended the embargo tomorrow, the only difference would be that Cubans would be able to choose from more things they could not afford anyway due to their authoritarian thug regime that hasn't allowed elections since they murdered and pillaged their way into office in 1959.
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@strappedwithkrylon - Blockade? You mean the one that lasted less than two weeks 60 years ago? And was over nuclear weapons, which Castro openly advocated using against American civilians even if it meant his own people would sacrificed? Yeah, what an unreasonable guy JFK was for not allowing a gigantic cache of nukes in the hands of a madman 90 miles away from his country...
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@LyndseyMacPherson - Trump tightened it up again in response to Cuba's intelligence service propping up Nicolas Maduro. Many folks do not realize that the G2 (Cuba's "CIA," so to speak) is extremely powerful, and ruthless. They have a worldwide intelligence network that rivals major powers and they are very effective in quashing internal dissent. Keeping them under wraps as much as possible is in the interest of not only the US, but all of Latin America. When the G2 shows up, human rights activists begin finding themselves in jail, reporters dead and freedom destroyed.
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@GOLDSMITHEXILE - Eh, I don't think he's a commie. He likes the history of it, enjoys exploring it and, to me, respects some of the patriotic aspects. But he understands reality.
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You're vastly overstating the necessity of trade with the United States. Plenty of countries can, and do, trade with Cuba. Including countries with robust pharmaceutical industries that, I'm sure, produce whatever medication that man was looking for. You may have noticed one of the taxis was a brand new Chinese car, for example. Opening up trade with the US would not improve the lives of these people at all. The ultra-wealthy "communist" party members could buy themselves some new toys, but the ability to import products is useless if you cannot afford any of the products in the first place. Again, as I said earlier, perhaps the people should decide their future in free and fair elections – but the left can't handle that. They can't even handle it in the USA. ;)
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Harald Baldr did a bunch of videos from Vietnam. Pretty interesting!
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@jessicakelley0 - I do quite a bit of international travel, including a great amount to South America, and customs regs in this part of the world are extremely stringent when it comes to animals. Not sure how this translates to Cuba given its form of government (and deviation from some cooperative international norms) but even if the cat could be taken out of the country, it would not be allowed to enter the UK (or US, EU countries, etc.). Even traveling with a family pet takes quite a bit of documentation.
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@KindaSemiCompetent - Well, that is what it is. Unfortunately, tiny islands in the middle of nowhere only have so much economic viability. You can't, for example, open up a gigantic automotive manufacturer in Kingston. There's a reality here about that, but Cuba likely has more potential given its larger size and historically skilled population.
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