Comments by "" (@shauncameron8390) on "Cuba's power grid fails, plunges country into darkness" video.

  1. LOL. Like the USSR did with Chernobyl and the Aral Sea?
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  2.  @annkristoff4303  How so? I thought Cuba was self-sufficient and didn't need the US for anything. Plus, Cuba had no problem doing business with Russia (USSR), Venezuela, Mexico, Brazil, etc.
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  3. Or free oil from Venezuela.
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  4. It's much easier to be communist in a free country than free in a communist one.
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  5. Hosting Soviet nukes and seizing US-funded and built enterprises = no reason?
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  6. Imposed by the Cuban government against its own citizens.
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  7.  @jaac7027  They sold the industry out to Russia (USSR) a long time ago.
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  8.  @aavvcc  But socialism takes the cake.
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  9. And doing business with Russia.
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  10. But Mexico still has a far-left President.
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  11.  @stuartwray6175  The same BRICS that have a load-shedding problem?
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  12.  @annkristoff4303  China is regressing.
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  13.  @TheRaidoRune  The Bahamas and Barbados.
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  14.  @9sunsjuddleponk  Sanctions courtesy of the Cuban government.
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  15.  @bigpacthatseazye3462  Yet Iran is doing much better in comparison in spite of them.
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  16.  @PolicyWise-t4h  No. Castro destroyed whatever industry it had making them poorer and dependent on imports.
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  17.  @SHOTBYWAVO  In leaving whole nations in ruin in a couple of generations, that is.
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  18. Just ask South Africa.
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  19. The US embargo has nothing to do with this.
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  20.  @mikearchibald744  Frequent blackouts are common in Cuba.
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  21.  @mikearchibald744  No they're not as Canada's provincially-run power plants are much better managed and maintained.
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  22. Texas's issue was a one-off. Cuba's issue is just standard socialist fare.
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  23.  @annkristoff4303  No. It's the 60+ years of communist rule that did this along with no more Russian or Venezuelan aid to prop it up. Why don't YOU get real?
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  24.  @durfdurffigan8680  No. This is communism. And communists were never known for their competence at running anything except their mouths.
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