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49:00 Another example of socialist time travel is the sugar harvest in Cuba WLRN 91.3 FM | By Tim Padgett Published May 28, 2022 at 6:42 AM EDT "Cuba this week is reporting its worst sugarcane harvest since 1905 . The official communist regime newspaper Granma concedes the island reaped considerably less than half a million tons. That’s only about half of what officials had forecast — and it’s less than half of the sugarcane Cuba harvested last year."
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@andreamarino6010 if it is not "needed" ... why did the officials "forecast" it? The forecast is wasteful? Try again!!!
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@Iv4Bez there is no embargo. Cuba trades with the "super powers" Russia, China, Venezuela, Iran and Brasil They export Niquel, at pretty good prices And, what does the "embargo" have to do with growing sugar cane? Is the sun embargoed? The water? The soil? Go cry "embargo" somewhere else
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@Iv4Bez I call BS, because Cuba has "exported" the "success" in healthcare to Venezuela and Brasil. So pick one lie. Can't have it both ways. Either Cuba is a sport, health and public schooling power house, that exported (for money) doctors and trainers... or it is "affected by the embargo"
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@Iv4Bez if there is a "lack of access to medicine", it is because they send their doctors overseas instead of treating their own population These "exports" deny the "blockade" allegation, since they ARE able to export any good or service they want, and charge hard currency for it. Venezuela paid Cuba in hard dollars and oil. So a) there is no embargo, b) the deficiencies of the Cuban government are self inflicted
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@Iv4Bez there are trade restrictrions. But these are self imposed wounds of the socialist ideas set forth in the Cuban law. Not an embargo. Statetism, lack of respect for property rights and corruption
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@Iv4Bez false. There was an armed blockade to stop missiles coming via ships. It was never a commercial sanction. Furthermore, the blockade failed, the missiles DID go thru. So the "excuse" is even less credible.
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@Iv4Bez cubaplatform org "Significant sources of imported food include Vietnam (rice), Brazil (rice, soybean oil, and chicken), Argentina (rice), Canada and France (wheat), Russia (soybean oil) and the United States (soybean oil and chicken)." So where are the "sanctions"? They trade freely, with many countries. Even the USA sells them food! What the cuban government can't explain is WHY don't they feed themselves? Why can't they grow their OWN food? Is there an embargo on the soil? The rain? The sunlight? The cows? Or the cornstalks?
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