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estebanktoday at 3:24 AM2 repliesview on HN

> They're lacked basic supplies for 30 years.

Cuba has been under embargo for 66 years.


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ch4s3today at 3:29 AM

The embargo doesn’t cover medical supplies and Cuban buys what medicine and medical supplies it has mainly from the US. The embargo also doesn’t cover food.

Cuba also does a lot of trade with China and Spain but has relatively little to actually sell because the state controlled industries are so unproductive. Cuba also has the least productive agricultural sector in the Caribbean, despite being the most productive before the revolution.

The embargo is no excuse it doesn’t cover other countries, and Cuba has always had European trade partners. In fact they received free oil, agricultural equipment, and technical support from the USSR, and later free oil from Venezuela until a few weeks ago.

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programjamestoday at 3:30 AM

Under US embargo, not USSR.

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