Cuba’s government has spent the last days attempting to get the island’s national grid functioning after repeated island-wide blackouts. Without power, sleep becomes difficult in the heat, food spoils and the water supply fails.

Parts of Cuba’s communist system still function: the municipality sent Maria food. “We are three families here,” she said. “I live alone, the lady who lives next to me [does] also, and there are two children, the children’s mother, her aunt and an elderly man.”

A week after the blackout, the island has returned to the status quo ante with regular power cuts of up to 20 hours a day. But the crisis has left a deep, melancholy dread about the future.

    • Letstakealook@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      63
      ·
      29 days ago

      Well, we can blame both of our right-wing parties for contributing to the situation by enforcing the longest running embargo. The first break from this was during the Obama administration, but it was too little too late, and we immediately returned to the previous status quo.

      • Sop
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        46
        ·
        29 days ago

        It’s not just an embargo, it’s a criminal blockade that every UN country except the US, Israel and Ukraine has agreed should end.

        • CALIGVLA@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          11
          ·
          29 days ago

          You’d think Ukraine would have some charity towards another oppressed state. I guess money speaks louder.

        • prof_wafflez@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          7
          ·
          29 days ago

          The US, Israel and Ukraine can get fucked. Other countries should ignore their bull shit bullying and help Cuba. The US and Israel and international bullies and have gotten thousands killed.

            • prof_wafflez@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              2
              ·
              edit-2
              28 days ago

              Actually I’m just aware of history. And I wasn’t even talking about Russia, you illiterate boob. Pick up a book. It’s not difficult. The US has done a great job meddling in many, many countries over the last 80 years - common knowledge that’s easy to come by. PS Putin is a tool and since the only person having sus behavior here is you, stop muddying the waters. If anything, you’re an Israeli misinformation bot

      • Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        8
        ·
        29 days ago

        The break during the Obama administration caused Florida to turn red.

        No party in the US is going to touch Cuba until there is a regime change which Cuban expats approve of.

        This is simply Cuban’s punishing Cubans.

    • AmidFuror@fedia.io
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      29 days ago

      The wrong type of asylum seekers?

      You can presumably understand where they’re coming from, even if voting for the party that hates people from “shithole countries” is not in their interest.