Cuba’s Shelves Are Empty, Citizens Are Organizing
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- čas přidán 20. 01. 2022
- Pharmacy shelves are empty. Every morning, long lines form outside supermarkets as early as 5am, for a chance to buy one of the few food staples for sale. As Cuba’s welfare system is failing, dissidents at home and in exile have set up informal distribution systems to pick up the slack.
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Someone please tell me how sanctions against Cuba make sense anymore? If it's because of its human rights record, then why aren't there sanctions against China?
Cause china can fight back
China makes most goods found in Walmart, Target and Amazon. 🙈 So they get to so whatever
Because sanctions against China don't work, it would be as stupid as sanctioning oneself. China owns the Dollar.
Better yet what about America and it's human rights record. Look at what it does to black people and immigrants. Separating children from there parents and concentrating them into camps.. Don't even get me started on their illegal invasions.
There are sanctions against China
That poor old lady. She looks so gentle and caring.
Who cares they wanted this life
Looks can be deceiving. Just a word to the wise, not an opinion on that woman specifically
@Ander P crypto 😂 they are on thir own humans should be free they should have that choice
@Ander P bro you don't understand they wanted this now they act like the victims I hate that
@Ander P so they accomplished what since they chose communism
I am Cuban and it breaks me every time I talk to my father or my grandparents that live there, it breaks my heart and I wish we could do more
Peace, Love and Blessings beloved Sister 🙏🏾
We can't, but our government could. Time to end those sanctions. Of course, they won't until they can get someone in charge that will play ball with the US.
I am so sorry for you people. Absolutely heartbreaking
@@fauxbravo its been beyond that now for years. Its not about playing ball at this point.
Write letters to your senators, to end the sanctions, so that they can partake in the international trading and have access to supplies. There are groups out there doing this.
I cried watching this. Yes there are countries ( especially in Africa ) that are worse off ....but I remember watching Michael Moore documentary years ago , where he took sick Americans that couldn't afford to be treated & medicated in the U.S , to Cuba . The Cubans didn't hesitate for a second .. to help these Americans. My heart goes out to Cuba & her brave people.
Cuba sounds wonderful. Michael should move there
@@howdareu964 🤔 maybe you should suggest that to him .
@@fourtails1192
if it was so wonderful and america is crap like he says his actions would be consistent.
@@howdareu964 Totally agree, he´s an hypocrite. I cannot understand how there is still people who defend this regime.
@@foreropa
I couldn’t understand until I listened to ex kgb agent Yuri Bezmenov explain overt subversion after he defected back in the 80s. Listening to him today is listening to Nostradamus
I have had many Cuban friends. I have been there and fell in love with the people, the land, the smile despite hardship, the old Amercian cars... So today, all my thoughts and prayers go to the magnificent people of Cuba. Be strong ! I really hope things will be better soon ! It's heartbreaking to see such images.
So you’re only going to pray for them today?!? What about tomorrow & the day after that?! You’re prayers for Cuba are only reserved for 1 day!!!! So you think a day worth of prayers is good enough!?! WOW!
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I used to live there for a year and most of the people hate American influence and their greed for power; if the US sanctions were lifted they would be just fine
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@@VeganV5912 Eat your grass.
As someone who visited Cuba in 2019 pre pandemic it was already bad before Covid. I know it’s terrible now. Such a beautiful country with beautiful people too. It hurt my heart meeting people and them asking me for the clothes off my back. I wish I knew the situation before I went because I could’ve brought a suitcase of clothes and toiletries to give away. Instead, I gave the hostel staff most of my clothes and shoes on my last day. They were grateful but I felt bad for not being able to give more.
That's what I did. I took a carry-on suitcase full of things. People were so grateful!
@HunterBidensCrackPipe The US has been conducting regime change, assassinations, and imposing sanctions on all socialist countries. They are able to withstand these assaults because they are socialist.
@HunterBidensCrackPipe that's because America is sanctioning a socialist country and emposing embargoes....had been doing it for decades. Perhaps you ought to look at your own country first. There are numerous others in Cuba that support the revolution and the government but these will be edited out for your viewing by western media so you can make comments like this! Use your head look deeper than what you are being presented by western media. Most Citizens are protesting in support of the government and down with the US blockade. Of course there are some against it like in every country. I think USA is a two party dictatorship preaching to you and giving the illusion of democracy!
The Great Leader had several luxurious residences, many mistresses, 30 kids! He lived like a Renaissance prince. Equality for thee, but not for me (and my goons).
@HunterBidensCrackPipe Socialism sucks. So does a 60 year economic embargo.
I would have had no idea what was happening in Cuba otherwise, so thank you Vice. This is truly heartbreaking, I hope they get what they need and deserve soon.
if the USA rescinds the sanctions on Cuba this problem is solved literally overnight.
@@conzmoleman you really dont understand how the Castro regime and the communist government work
@@Skip2MyLouTV On the contrary, it is YOU who does not. They liberated the nation from the tyrannical abuses of the Batista regime. The immediately brought literacy rates from 10% to 99%. They have the world’s best healthcare system. They have so many excess doctors that they export them all over the world. They have a lung cancer vaccine. Free universal healthcare of an exponentially superior caliber than that of the US healthcare “system.”
The Cuban government has thrived in the face of constant interference, abuse, coup attempts, undermining, CIA-fomented terrorism, assassination attempts, and brutal, murderous sanctions.
The singular problem is the sanctions. If we removed them - and we MUST, because they are incomprehensibly evil - they can resume being a highly functional soverign nation. People must be allowed the right of self-determination. Their government and way of life is massively popular. Yet we claim to love “democracy” and we ruthlessly deny them their own.
You sir are not just ignorant, you are a belligerent scumbag.
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@@conzmoleman you have clearly never been to Cuba.
Or spoken to many Cubans..
This is humbling I'm sadden to see that in Cuba even to get an aspirin the local pharmacies are out of all medication.
They have at the national shops just only for tourists.
You should see our hospitals … everyone in the town I was born are leaving my grandparents tell me everyday how they have to go to our farm to eat because the stores have nothing if I send anything through the mail the people working there will open our mail when I used to live there they would do that to my mom they would steal the stuff that my dad would send me and when he would send us money we would only get half of it because of the bank my town is called banes holguin one of the places we’re tainos are from , we have a book that lets people that dispatch us food how much food to give us they have nothing our government gets rich off of our people
I just went to Cuba two months ago in November. For the same purpose of this girl. The police treated us as criminals for the medication we were carrying, I don't know how this girl didn't say anything about her entrance, she didn't mention a thing but for us it wasn't that easy. The migration police searched for us for days until they found us and told us not to do so because medicines can cause death to someone and because we were staying with locals. Farmacies there are empty empty empty, they don't have NOTHING I took pics of many people waiting for days outside the Drugstore to get a little medication. I'm impressed of every day I was there, there are so many things to tell, many many, I´m impressed.
Its just devastating
Hopefully with more awareness people will contribute
Although a domestic solution must present itself
Sorry, they tracked you for days to tell you to not do what?
@@melelconquistador not give medicines to Cuban people and not to stay with locals
It's called an embargo. Are you aware of the 60 year embargo put on Cuba by the US?
@@El_Rebelde_ Cubans want freedom. President Clinton offered to end embargo if elections were allowed. They refused and the Castro family are multi millionaires. Did you know that?
As always the innocent people suffer due to the corrupt at the top, we live in a very evil world 🌎
Sanctions.( empire files, greyzone project,rt america, noam chomskey and john pillager). It doesn't help that everyone at event 201 had a presentation talking about the poor will die from covid.
Communism is evil.
Do you even know what communism is? Capitalism is evil. And Cuba is a fascist dictatorship not communist. There are no actual communist countries. Do some research on what communism was supposed to be.
And you should read a book about either Indian or Chinese or Russian Economic History.
If capitalism is so evil like you say, then tell my why you dont see people flocking to socialist / communist countries like they do capitalist countries? Probably because communism is a total failure and they cant make it work!
Cuban people are so kind and down to earth. I can not believe the crap that they put up with, even in this decade!
Most of these people and their families (like the lady at very end) fought for Communism.
To prove yourself as a Communist? You had to do some real messed up stuff to others, to prove your loyalty to the government.
But now these same Communists are complaining about dilemmas they caused?
"You reap what you sow" and "be careful what you wish for" come to mind.. As a Cuban myself, I don't feel bad.
They have no collective recollection of anything prior to Fidel and raul!
Been to Cuba many times, was there in Jan and dedicated an entire suitcase for meds clothes and other hard to gets.. heading back next month with more stuff for the people. Always friendly good people, and I am more than happy to help the citizens directly.
Visited Cuba 5 years ago. The people are warm and lovely but desperately poor.
Yeah. its called socialism.
@@LordRykard9376 nah its called U.S. sanctions
America is suppose to be so rich yet there are homeless people everywhere in the so called richest country why is that? These countries may not be what you Americans call rich, but there are no homeless people sleeping in the streets.
@@carribgirl007 yes there are lol stfu
@Simon Bolduc socialism is a disease
Thanks Vice News. Please consider doing a video on enforced disappearances in Kenya. Suspected terrorists,thugs and sometimes innocent people disappear then reappear months later dead in a gunny bug with feet and hands tied with ropes
Lies again? Get suppliers
@@NazriB What? What do you mean by “get suppliers”?
@@Barabel22 These guys lost the ways to stores so hire professionals by getting suppliers
@@NazriB Are you just distracting people while someone shoves Taiwan into a duffel bag?
@@alakani No
I lived there, it was horrible. I breathed a sigh of relief when I went back to my country. I couldn't even find food, diapers for my daughter. No es fácil allí.
Gracias a Raul, que vendio su pais a la Union Sovietica !
The blue wrap on the bags is not because they have medicine. The main reason is because the airport workers in cuba steal things from your bag and having the wrap is an extra precaution.
I saw a long line of people waiting to have their bags wrapped in the Miami airport so I asked an airport employee why, they said if they don’t wrap it the thieves in the Havana Airport will steal from them.
dogs
Another country falling apart in these days. Venezuela, Lebanon, and many more. The world is falling apart. What is the future for so many people that are really struggling.
THE WEST AND ISRAEL
@@kconsidine313 Oh right. Syria has nothing to do with it, naturally.
Soylent green
@@lordeverybody872 Going to watch that
So true Belize central america I'm from!! USA need to end sanctions against little Cuba!! Long live Cuba!!✌🙏🌎🇧🇿🇨🇺❤💯
at 5:25, that look in the moms eyes hit home for me. I wish I could just send this woman everything I have to give. It's heartbreaking to see the level this has gotten to.
Write to congress to end the embargo perhaps
@@joseperovichjr1097 Embargo did not jail the daughter, the government did. So overthrow the communist government.
@@EnderViBrittania ok 👍 I guess bullies get their way all the time
@@EnderViBrittania what do you think about the embargo? why not do both? these are not mutually exclusive ideas. You’re parroting cold war CIA talking points in 2022.
@@patricklord2575 I’m stating a fact, so if commies can’t handle it then that’s not because my fact is wrong. Overthrow the commie government that arrested this woman, if you want to deal with the problem. The embargo is irrelevant in this example.
It is long past time that the USA lift their sanctions, and help the suffering people of Cuba.
Lift the sanctions = only funding the government more and not helping the people in reality. If only George Soros sponsored a coup there, pity it won't benefit him financially otherwise he'd be all over it.
What needs to happen is intervention ! How this is not a human rights issue for the UN to step in, is beyond ridiculous, but again, it doesn't pay them to do so
The country's income is bottlenecked to the communist elite. Quit being ignorant and blaming the US for everything. Blame castro and his dogs for keeping the cuban people under a boot all these years and all equally peasants. Sincerely a cuban
The embargo does not block food and medicine goods to Cuba from the United States. In 2020, $176.8 Million worth of goods were exported to Cuba from the US and $14.9 Million imported to the US from Cuba.
How about before lifting the sanctions, maybe putting an end to a 60+ year communist dictatorship?
Nah why support a dictatorship
This is so heart breaking. My daughter is a type 1 diabetic. I can’t imagine a day without giving her insulin. this makes me want to cry
There's no diabetic type 1 people in Cuba. There's no way they can survive.
I love that Biden put extra sanctions in place! #biden2024
My heart goes out to that woman who has two of her beautiful daughters in prison. I don't know how she is still standing. I'd probably have had a heart attack if I was in her situation. Human suffering is human suffering. End the embargo and sanctions against Cuba and bring in diplomats to work on fair trade, travel and human rights.
You can't do that cz of the USA
How about human rights in US territories.
Don’t vote Democrat/communism
I think the US is still fighting the Bay Of Pigs ! end the BS. open up CUBA to travel and you will see big changes, people there have a good education and are hard workers.
The ones that have Cuba closed up are the Castros!!! Wake up
I just found out about the 10 million dollars of covid PPE that was moved outside of a Bay Area events facility (USA) and left in the rain to rot for months. It would have stayed there had a reporter not did a story on it. All of that equipment wasted...and yet Cuba struggles...this is so sad.
I just watched a video on that wasted PPE. Then to watch this video is heart breaking
A wholleee lot more than $10's worth of wasted PPE from the States over the last year. Your whole administration is pathetic
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Leftists exaggerated the severity of covid to regain political control they saw slipping from their fingers. trillions of dollars wasted on conjecture and obfuscation. NOW ALL OF A SUDDEN. the narrative is shifting.
I love that Biden put extra sanctions in place! #biden2024
This documentary is filmed so well and it makes me feel so upset. I visited Cuba once as a child and I fell in love with the country. From that point forward I just adored their culture, music, food etc and the people were some of the best souls I've ever met. I've even been learning Spanish ever since. We did bring a suitcase full of clothes, notebooks, school supplies and so on but watching this makes me want to help more. I wish I could do more for them. It's very heartbreaking.
How does Raul get his medical supplies?
I now regret vacationing there. Even though I was indirectly helping many, the thought that my actions enriched a regime that could let this happen makes me really sad.
I am cuban , my family is there . The situation is dire and extreme to the point that people cant find potable water 🥲- pray for my people 😭 #soscuba
Move your family to Kenya
🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Do they still support communism?
Praying!
@@kevmoful they shure do same as the journalist doing the report
What is not mentioned in this video is that the embargo on Cuba is the longest in modern history and is one of the most comprehensive. The UN General Assembly has voted every single year since 1992 to end it and with unanimous consent every single time except for the US and Israel. These countries simply ignore the resolution. A majority of economic experts agree that Cubas lack of economic growth is largely because of these sanctions. Not at least historically because a lack of education or institutions. It has completely stunted the economic development of Cuba and has risen to the level of economic warfare and genocide. It bars all forms of trade completely that are in the interest of Cuba and its purpose is to make Cubans poor and destitute. Before someone complains about "OMG socialism!" I'll remind you that we not only do not sanction Saudi Arabia we are allied with them and that country had an American citizen executed and dismembered and we did nothing.
Gee, it's almost as if if the illegitimate, despotic government of Cuba allowed democratic elections, all the problems would be resolved.
No...wait...definitely...
Wait, who did the Saudis execute on US soil ?.
I've been to Cuba the people of Cuba hate socialism and what it causes. No one wants to work harder than others and be paid the same. What don't you understand about that how will you generate farmers?
@@kashoutlenox “yeah I went to Cuba. You should totally believe me because I definitely went to Cuba.”
@@alixir3010 well just because you've never been anywhere dosent mean other people haven't. I've also been to Israel Spain and Italy I also live close to Mexico. Not to mention layovers.
Ugh sending my love to all the Cubans. This is so rough but you are some of the loveliest people who have so much love and happiness from your family and friends I hope the citizens are able to come together and support each other. If the government won’t help it’s only the citizens who can assist each other. My heart breaks because it’s not like life was very easy before.
I love that Biden put extra sanctions in place! #biden2024
The fact the we still have an embargo on Cuba is asinine. It's doing more harm than good. It's obvious what the embargo is meant to do and I'm absolutely disgusted it's gone this far. I'm quite ashamed of this.
You do realize that we can export/import food and medicine with them. Also, the embargo does not prohibit other countries from trading with them. Canada and Europe have established trade with them. Their failure is not due to our embargo, which is in place because they do not allow free and fair elections, it is because they are socialist. Socialism does not work. With so many failed socialist countries, why do you think it can work?
@@OlancerZ 1st I didn't say anything about socialism working. 2nd If those countries are trading with them, then why does this problem exist other than corrupt governance and a trade embargo that's obviously not accomplishing anything other than additional suffering. Don't try to bend what people say, it makes you look stupid.
Those in power have the ability to make the life of people better. They simply choose not to. It is not only the Cuban government it is the other countries governments to blame also. When governments put restrictions the people suffer. We are not immune to all this.
@@krumba100 That is exactly what I was getting at. Thank you. I'm American and I'm ashamed of what we've been doing lately. We have so much potential yet we keep doing the wrong thing.
@@emperortrajan3609 1) sorry for the spelling mistakes in the first post. Voice to text was not my friend today. 2) the failure comes at the government level. Dictatorships have a way of promoting the selfish to the top. Since the goods go directly to the gov to be distributed, the chain can be manipulated. Also, because there are no private businesses, people can't try to import on their own like they do in the USA.
If this can happen to a country in 2000s, this xan happen to all countries. Just one event away from collapse. At least it's showing the people character to help each other.
Bros off them xans
@Simon Bolduc neither is communism
OK... those with brains leave to countries that where production is rewarded. That's fact. Unless their part of the commie regime where they live by their own set of rules.
@Simon Bolduc Yet, the Soviets had tons of resources, influence and trade partners and still managed to collapse. Ideology always plays a big role.
@Simon Bolduc Tell me one socialist country that isn't rotten by corruption. You give the government that much power and that's what you'll get. Switching to capitalism was what saved them from starvation. You're gonna tell me that life in Russia is worse than in the Soviet times? Even the Chinese knows the importance of free-market and low economic intervention. The huge impact of the SEZs in their development isn't a coincidence.
Are US citizens allowed to just send food over? If so, you guys should list some addresses of food distribution centers, or people that will distribute things so we can send them stuff they need most.
Think, more medicine is needed, people does not starve
There's an EMBARGO.
No because there's an embargo lmfao
You can and there are organizations that will do this. But I don't have any time to look into how reputable these organizations are, so you're on your own as far as that goes. But yes you can, and the idiots saying LOL theres an embargo are dead wrong. You can individually donate. That isn't what an embargo is.
@@asjfasd Embargo exclude food and medical trade with Cuba and there is still today some trade between two countries
I have a daughter in law in Cuba and she was thrown in jail for 6 years due to the protesting in July and all she wants is basic needs like food, meds, sad situation I pray one day it will change for her and all the people there
Your daughter in law was participating in a failed US coup attempt.
This is due to the US embargo.
Take individual responsibility for once..
@@72marshflower15 you don’t know what you’re talking about at all
Funny because we also are protesting here, against capitalism, asking for the same things.
@@henrycamacho8573 please enlighten me, patriot wannabe..
@@72marshflower15 they r all patriots, just like the guys who overthrew the democratic government in Iran in violent street coup or the guys eho did the same in Ukraine. The people who deposed a democratically elected leader like jelaya and tried to do the same with Chavez were also just trying to bring freedom to the people of Honduras. Us rules China drool
It’s very frustrating that here in the UK, people waste medications on an industrial scale. Elderly people hoard years supplies of medications for no reason, others take NHS funding to buy a 19p pack of paracetamol.
I’d even go as far to say that if we managed our medications in the UK far better, we’d be able to supply Cuba and many more countries until they got back on their feet.
Why not Cuba adopt a free market capitalism and produce their own competitive medicine at low prices?
@BOX that's not how the world works cuba is an island nation it cannot just produce anything it wants especially if they are resource constrained. Look up the 180 day policy of the embargo
There’s a travel blogger called Bald and Bankrupt who traveled to Cuba and his videos from there gives you a great sample of what the locals are dealing with all while still having smiles on their faces. Buena Suerte Cubanos!
loved his serise
Sweet I'll have to check his channel out
He even smuggled a cat out of the country into Europe
That was a while ago…imagine how it is now.
Cuba has gotten worse since the pandemic. Bald was there before covid.
I went to Cuba in 1999 as an intl aid worker. I toured hospitals and clinics. I'll never forget walking through a lab room filled with flies. After the tour the head of the hospital asked for light bulbs. Light bulbs!? The people were wonderful. The lack of material goods was astounding. I can only imagine what the people are going through now. May all of us help each other rise above self-created lack🌈✨🌹🌱
Socialist Paradisio! They have free Healthcare I hear.
Yes. You are right Simone. That has been devastating. My perspective was the lack in general which humanity has created for humanity and all life ✨🌸❄✨
When I was there it was free but unable to do much
@@laurasequeira5449 Kinda hard to do anything when you have the world's biggest economy sanctioning your country making it near impossible to get medical equipment and medicine. But hey even with all that bs they still are willing to help Americans get the healthcare they would not get from the states. czcams.com/video/j7cME3lCdwE/video.html
@@raible9554 americans pay money to healthcare in cuba. Why does communism blame the USA for its downfall. If it was so great why does it need USA trading to survive?
Sadly this report neglected to mention the reasons why people suffer in countries that have sanctioned by the U.S for decades. Interestingly enough people in third world countries don't ever get to see the poverty in North America.
very true.
Shelf are empties but the government have money and resources to organize the “Sanremo “ festival…..how the shelf are empties and there is plenty of food offered to the festival goers ?
The government don’t invest money to buy ambulances but buy a float of hundreds of new cars for tourism.
There is not gas or diesel for the little ambulances that they have but they have plenty of gas and diesel for the vehicles that they use to oppress the people.
There are not construction’s materials to maintain hospitals and people’s houses but there is infinite materials to built hotels for the tourist and houses for the Castro and Díaz Canel families.
There is a “blockade” but all the chicken that the government buy is from USA, the cars that the government brought for tourism made an scale in a USA port.
Cuban people is strong, it would help a lot if the US removed the seventy years embargo.
It would help a lot if cuba would be a democratic country
Nonsense. The US has no obligations to let a communist state to join free trade.
Why is it that every communist country blames America for not..engaging them in free trade? Lmao
Como se todos os problemas de Cuba se resumissem a isso, n fode porra
correct, the nation is effectively bullied into submission with US economic sanctions. Sad cause innocent people suffer
Well it sure makes a difference when the US and other states have sanctions on Cuba since 70 years.
They can still trade with China and Russia
@@Rommie26
@Romeo26
Not really.
The embargo not only disincentivizes trade, but also outright economically punishes nations/corporations that trade with Cuba by barring them from the US market for long periods of time. So China has to be clever to work around the embargo. Did you know that medical supplies bound for Cuba from China didn't arrive because the Colombian vessel that would have to complete the shipment wasn't allowed to do so? Did you know that the US and Israel were literally the only two nations on earth to vote 'No' to lifting trade restrictions.. and because they're in place at the order of the US they'll just remain in place regardless? It gets deep.
Ask yourself this: if Cuba was given the freedom to do business with whomever they please, whenever they please, would they still be in this situation? Don't deny the impact of this six-decades long embargo, which only exists because Cubans, once upon a time, dared to chart their own path which ran counter to what the US decreed for them.
Also, it's an island afterall. Compare it to other Caribbean islands and you'll see that generally over the course of its communist history it has performed significantly better than its "free-market" (American pet state) peers *despite* the embargo.
@@ghoulswinnfield4692 Cuba is isolated because it basically doesn’t pay its bills. It has burned every bridge and doesn’t allow free enterprise to flourish. Communism is a dead-end.
@@evlnte
You can't see how that cycle is perpetuated by trade restrictions? Even if they had a free market, who would they trade with under an embargo this restrictive? Turn your attention to calling for the US to lift restrictions and let communism fail on its own then if that's what you believe. Otherwise you're playing a part in American economic imperialism. They tell the rest of the world what the rules are and demand everyone play their game; all rule breakers will be crushed. The embargo is just a tool to economically destroy Cuba and cause an uprising.. and when that happens you'll still blame communism.
theyll always blame it on socialism though
Even before Covid happened it’s been like this for a very long time I’m Cuban and I remember when I was a little girl I had bad asthma attacks and i did even have a common asthma inhaler to keep with me 😩 my parents had to run bye foot with me to nearest medical facilities too see if they had any medication I hope 😞 Cuba becomes free one day.
Free of embargoes
@@abel5779 how blind can you be?... 🤦♂️
@@assassind36 What? Cuba has been suffering from US embargoes since decades. The lack of supplies is due to the lack of the ability to trade.
I was born in banes our hospital was miles away and my parents and grandparents would run with me when I would have allergic reactions and they didn’t have medication or when I would have really bad bronchitis my mom had to call my nurse aunts to come to the hospital and bring medication from my mom job which was a senior home/hospital , I learn how to plant beans by the age of 4 and rice and many other things I would help my grandpa chase our chickens to be able to have food because the carnicería wouldn’t give us much for our family , my grandpa would go up 5 set of stairs to fill our water tanks for us to drink and shower and cook no water in pipes no water to drink because it was expensive when my mom won the lottery for papers before 2002 the year that I was born she had to pay every penny for her career before coming here finally 2012 came and we were able to become refugees but with the traitor title on our Cuban documents it’s a hard life but it humbled us each day I give myself hope that our country will turn around and be free because it’s not patria y muerto no more it’s patria y vida
@@abel5779 its communism not embargo
It is also difficult for the relatives who are staying in a foreign country. It became more and more difficult to send money. And sending packages is always mysterious adventure.
I live in Puerto Rico and never knew that my neighbors in Cuba are having that much troubles is very sad . Thanks guys for putting this information and how to help them gracias 🙏 now is time to help
May God blesd you! Thankyou
😂🤣 I'm surprised your country has electricity after the hurricane yrs ago! Please tell us about how being a USA territory has worked out for you ?!
Democracy vs dictatorship……sad that the people are paying the price
You're not doing too well yourselves over the past few years. You're a US colony, aren't Yee?
I love that Biden put extra sanctions in place! #biden2024
The perseverance and ingenuity of the Cuban people always amazes me. Beautiful country. Have had the opportunity to go many times.
A true Socialist success story. So beautiful 😍 especially the starving children and lack of indoor plumbing...
@@Registered_Democrat that's the government which I also dont like.... the people can still be lovely and the island beautiful. Have you ever actually been?
People who have never been, or who enjoy the disposable society/planned obsolescence of certain countries don't see the ingenuity as a positive thing: they think it's okay to buy buy buy throw away throw away throw away...
There's a reason those old American cars are still on the road, and it's because people are talented mechanics who learnt how to manufacture their own spare parts. That's just one example. Where in Capitalist countries cars sometimes less than a year old get scrapped just because maybe a panel got a dent and it's an insurance write off, which is completely wasteful. Yes, doctors might have leaking roofs, but they will take their patients to hospital themselves, properly care for each individual. The healthcare system is number one in the world, the education system is brilliant and the musicianship is second to none. Of course there are bad things, but the beautiful things are lost/non existent in much of the world.
@@happydillpickle great input. I assume this person is from the USA which has a 1 in 6 child poverty rate. So yeah no utopia either.
@@leam89 Yes; well, I never saw any starving children in Cuba either because what people do have, they share and the way they farm isn't wasteful, unlike other countries, where so much just gets thrown away; it's a bloody disgrace how wasteful the Western world is when it comes to food. Huge supermarkets grossly overstocked, so much just getting thrown in skips. Ugh.
It would’ve been cool if vice could’ve linked different organizations so we could directly help the cause.
But I guess it’s vice at the end of the day.
I love that Biden put extra sanctions in place! #biden2024 they can't violate the embargo stupid you can thank Biden
This breaks my heart. My husband family is from Cuba and still have family members in Cuba.
Sanctions to Cuba beginning in 1960 to current days. WB and the USA have done everything possible to make Cuba like this.
Try to read "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man" (John Perkins).
I bet you voted for Biden 🤣 if so you supported this. Biden put extra sanctions in place! #biden2024
"Asking them to leave" it's called expelling.
''could you please deport yourself'' lol
Never allow communists into your neighborhoods, into your cities, or your country. 60 years we have suffered because we did not have the strength in 1960 to kill Fidel Castro. So much suffering at the hands of evil criminals.
Dear Cuba, I am so sorry for the suffering your country is experiencing. There is no need and things should not be so dire for your people and it's painful to see your struggle. I pray that things will turnaround and the suffering will end. Thank you Vice News for risking serious danger to bring this to the attention of all who will listen, this is very important news that should be broadcasted daily on major networks and I don't understand why so little time is being devoted to educating people about this issue..... and many others that I am only finding on social media through small outlets.
This is where socialism communism ends up every time.
@@feduppatriot7647 lol wait for them to crawl out saying "but this isn't REAL socialism/communism" aka "If I was the benevolent dictator, I would do things differently" Suuuuurrrreeeee
So if Cuba isn't allowing journalists in.... isn't vice putting these people's lives in jeopardy by showing the faces and saying the names of people who are cooperating with a foreign news outlet?
Hm
How the turntables have turned
@@TheMagnificentGman on who?
No. It's Cuba, not North Korea.
Belize central america I'm from!! Sending prayers for Cuba our Caribbean neighbours!! Free Cuba of all sanctions please!!✌🙏🌎💯
Free Cuba from dictatorship
My family lived in communist state. Sanctions are the last of their problems. The organisation of the state is even worse. The fall of USSR de-facto crippled their economy because of it.
@@clashoflands I doubt they will get richer trough
@@tomaszzalewski4541 Mostly money before revolution what Cuba had was US subventions for sugar production. As this dissapear USSR step on but was not so much as US money. Also tourism went down. And sugar today is quite cheap, so no big income. Tourism perished due Corona and that is it...
@@tomaszzalewski4541 How about just for fun though, we end the embargo. If they collapse, so be it. We probably don't need to put a boot to their throat right now.
Imagine not having any family members outside of cuba that can send you money or food. How are you supposed to help your family or feed your children.
This is EXACTLY what the late Soviet Union looked like, government run store empty a thriving black market for everything and a select few stores full of everything mostly imported accessible only to the political elites and foreign diplomats.
They didn't really talk about WHY there is shortage.
American sanctions
@@jimmyringz2550 nonsense. Sanctions have nothing to do with it. Sanctions haven’t changed in decades. It is financial mismanagement, corruption, communism and COVID that has caused the problem. Not sanctions.
Why should they have to explain? We all know why. Communism sucks.
@@tonyr8051 nonsense. Communism have nothing to do with it. Communism haven’t changed in decades. It is COVID that has caused the problem. Not communism.
Why doesn't the Cuban government allow its own private citizens to set up drugstores and import medicines for sale in Cuba? That's the solution to the shortages. Not charity or almonds. Not empowering the dictatorial regime Duhhh
It would help without sanctions and an embargo. And before anyone else comments US doesn’t block other countries from trading with Cuba, they do make it impossible to do business as foreign business can be sanctioned by US authorities.
If they lift the sanctions, the ruling class will get the benefits first anyway.
You people would argue that the US should not have sanctioned Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union because "it hurts the people".
@@zero12304 yeah now that fidel is gone the one who actually intended otherwise. And when the government has limited resources ofcourse they will hold on to it. Its not like they lift sanctions and they will be all good right away. It will take them time. The majority of people specially the eldest still cheer for fidels fight. The youngest didnt live it and some believe the few US news they get. Fox "news" has already been proven to alter pictures of "protests" to make it seem they are rising against the government when its only small groups.
They trade things like top tier cigars with 99 percent of the World. The money is mismanaged. Until the system itself is fixed, nothing will change.
@@chaosXP3RT comparing Nazi Germany to Cuba 👍
0.001% embargo, 99.999% mismanagement. When a country as rich in land and resources and entrepreneurial spirit as Cuba has to import 80% of its food, the embargo isn't the problem.
It's been known that Cuba has the BEST medical doctors and its free to study in universities in CUBA....now I don't think anymore...😩👀
The good people of Cuba 🇨🇺 deserve better than this they deserve freedom from oppression and access to basic goods and services
they deserve freedom from the US oppression in the form of sanctions
@@zebrajenks those sanctions are part of the problem but the never targeted medical or food even if you lean left or right you would agree any one fleeing on a raft from a country that is 90 miles away is a clear sign that the government has to change
@@zebrajenks they have sanctions from most countries!! They need democracy !! They need guns !! If Americans send planes or boats with aid the Cuban president will just have it taken!! That’s why no country sends stuff !! This isn’t an American problem!! If the USA were to attack the Cuban president it would start a war with the Russians or others !! It’s a bad situation!! The best thing to do would be smuggle weapons in and overthrow the government!!
Is sad to see how a beautiful country like Cuba is still going threw all that caos hunger still in 2022 men all those Cuban expats have to get together and make a change in their land.
@Fdisbbb Fididbbdjdj true but it would be nice for them to stop being cowards and go make a change in their own land.
@@pedro101783 Yep, all of those Mexicans and Central Americans should stay in their countries too and fight for changes. Same for the MILLIONS of Venezuelans throughout Europe, Miami, and Latin America.
Rules don't apply to latinazos like you, living in the GOOD OLD USA. Rules for thee but not for me.😏🙄🤮
Your bill in a Cuban Hospital will be $0.00. Just bring your own sheets and a light bulb for your room. Ask yourself why those two items ??
If the pharmacies have nothing to sell why are they still open !?!?!?!
because the pharmecies are run by the government.
It’s the corruption in cuba for me….
let the USA put a embargo on Chile, they will collapse in 1 month
@@coelho7156 my country didn't had the embargo and we still collapsed. The organisation of the state is the biggest problem here.
@@tomaszzalewski4541 what country ?
@@coelho7156 I don't see that Iran did collapse, despite sanctions...
@@manjelos Iran is in the east, close to anti-USA nations, Cuba is in latin america, once US saction Cuba, no country in the americas can trade with Cuba, except for Venezuela. Logistics also matter, the closest country is likeily to be the biggest trade partner, that's why Mexico and canada are the US biggest trade partner. the US is the natural trade partner of Cuba, the embargo heavily cripples their enconomy.
Cuba exported 500 million dollars to China and 120 million dollars to Spain in 2019. They imported 2000 billion dollars from both too. Additionally imported 300 million from Italy.
Si when is the Cuban dictatorship gonna come to end. That’s a way to start for a possible solution.
End the criminal US embargo and alot of the problems will be aliviated. The main way of exporting goods is via ships and if countries from Africa, Asia, Europe want to export to cuba they chose not to because ships cannot go into American ports for 180 days. It's obvious most companies will then choose to not trade with cuba so they can earn higher profits in the US.
lol
and guess who wants the embargo to continue. Cuban Americans that fled the country.
how about you don't talk about other people's problems.
Elimine el embargo de la isla y déjales comerciar con el mundo, Biden. Si el sistema no funciona, déjalo caer naturalmente y van a escoger un sistema diferente. LIBRE CUBA 🇨🇺
HUMANITY NEEDS TO BE FIRST, NOT SELFISH CONTROLLING MERE MAN TRYING TO RULE THE WORLD 🤔😠💯
Right it's despicable what the few are doing to minorities! GOD bless that lady from spain.
maybe if the US would lift the sanctions, Cubans could live a normal life. How much is the state department paying you Vice?
Or just abolish the communism?
I just never understand how the police can go home and sleep after fighting against the people who are against a dictator... what do they get? money? what can they do with it? in a country that doesn't have anything because of the said dictator... And how can people not go and get them? their friends, families.... Dictatorships must be eliminated all over the world...
Money, their jobs, and they fear going against the government and ending in the same jail cells as the protestors. Cuban jail is not the same holiday as American ones
🙏🏻
“…The island nation doesn’t allow foreign journalists to operate freely in the country”
If there was any lingering doubt as to the clownshow manifesting this struggle for these poor Cuban people…
Doing a pharmacist work with a socials degree, this made me tear up
It is really SAD !! No others words, just SAD.
U.S should its evil sanctions against Cuba and the DPRK
@@deezeed2817 thought Obama lifted them. We can go there now
@@maggiemae7539 Trump reimposed sanctions on Cuba and the DPRK is still under sanctions of the worst kind. No country can freely trade with them. These sorts of sanctions have devastating economic consequences.
Tell the leaders of Cuba to stop their oppressive strangle hold on their people ...it's not Americas fault it's the defunct communist dictatorship
Would be great if the translated captions on the video were much larger and bit slower.Thank you.
Remember how Bernie Sanders praised Cuba?
And some people want this kind of government in the USA 🤦🏽♂️
Cuban sanctions now in pandemia is criminal ! Poor Cuban people.
Did cuba ever help the world against swine flu?
For everyone commenting here: no one has a monopoly on greed, corruption and authoritarianism. US sanctions are hurting Cuba, no doubt. But the dictatorship in Cuba is also hurting ordinary Cubans through corruption and repression. It's not a Communist vs Capitalist thing. It's just old men who want power and money. The ordinary people suffer.
Duhhh, they just wanna blame the sanctions because Cubas attempt at socialism is failing.
Hasn’t every communist country end up like this ?
@@S3aCa1mRa1n US embargo fault
@@S3aCa1mRa1n the problem is authoritarianism paired with kleptocracy. The ruling elites of Cuba are fleecing the country's wealth. The same is happening in the US. The machanisms by which they defend themselves from consequences differ, but the goal is the same.
There are plenty of wealthy and prosperous Socialist nations out there. They are successful because they are stable democracies without authoritarianism & kleptocracy.
@@ragingkoolaidhead4178 No
Wrong! Cuba has been poor via fidel since 1958!
The grass is not greener in the other side.
It's getting to the point were citizens are requesting simple decency and the govt responds with violence. The divide between rich/poor is growing and we are seeing the little pieces of gravel being kicked off the edge of the cliff, but soon we'll be falling off that cliff into numerous revolutions which scares the crap out of me. Without those though, I don't believe we are at a point where those with the ability to help will and the people will have to fight for themselves.
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I am from Jamaica . We have no embargo.We are cuba's neighbor and we have access to everything..............just can't afford these things. I hate our government.
Thank you for pointing this out. There are many countries in the global south that are not communist and do not have harsh sanctions yet still suffer from REAL access to basic needs.
@yourmanwatson I guess that's how globalist oligarchs stay rich, they exploit the greed of third world politicians 🙄
Cubans actually have higher life expectancies than their neighbors in the Caribbean, the real problem the US has is that Cuba offers an example of life outside the wings of Western economic control and that's why the USA does everything to sabotage Cuba. Because if Cuba thrives it will show other countries that they don't have to settle for economic exploitation by the west.
@yourmanwatson Every body hate MMF, mostly of them who have huge depth. But nobody mentioned MMF when they spent this money back in the days. No MMF, no problem, nobody give loans to save you, so no any money
@yourmanwatson Just simple stuff, don't take loan and spend how much you have. But people choose always somebody who put money in their pockets. After state fall in depth he loose elections but the depth stay, quite simple. And is not even a crime because 99% of money went in the country and every body did enjoy it
It really is a shame how much innocent people are affected by the actions of their government.
Retired Coast Guard served with many Cuban Americans. Always hard working and friendly. Also very good and able leaders. So sad to to see Cuba like this hope things change.
The country you served did that to them.
Friendly suggestion: make the subtitles a little bigger. They are too small and hard to see. Thanks for your consideration.
Friendly suggestion -- go see your eye doctor.
This is the Vice I’ve known and loved. Is there a way to help these people? My godparents as well as my grandmother are all Cubaños 🇨🇺 who were born and raised on the upper west side with blacks and Puerto Ricans that pretty much lived in harmony for decades and decades. My grandmother married a black man and had 7 beautiful successful children, which is the reason I’m who I am. I’ll always have love for the island. May the patron Saint of the island look over her children in these times ❤️ Maferefun La caridad Del Cobre todo los Dias ❤️
😂 peasant
Do you mean African Americans? Because there are blacks Puerto Rican’s and Cubans…we exist too and are not a monolith
Empty food shelves, despotic government and grinding poverty. Sounds like the cuban dream.
just finished The Red Umbrella and then watched this and this hit me a little hard, respect for the cubans that are experiencing this
Thank you for informing me about the situation in Cuba…without a larger political narrative. This seemed raw - and I wish you’d repeat this formula.
The embargo doesn’t block medicine from Cubans in fact USA donates a ton of medicine. That’s why Cubans protest was against the government . The government that keeps the people from having enough money to do anything and no rights to protest. We have hundreds of people in prison since July 11 being sentenced to up to 30-40 years even minors. Some of the most visible people who have spoken against the government have been expelled and people are scared to death to die in prison or have their family be harassed constantly which is why they go through. Notice how hotels have medicine and everything else and tourists feel a freedom Cubans can’t.
Source?
How much the CIA paying you?
Living in Cuba till I was 20 and my whole family lives there and I have to send them money, clothes and shoes to get by. So please shut your mouths. I know it must be hard to speak of someone life from your
iPhone and ac’d room.
@@alixir3010 Claria anglosajona
@@chungusmaximus526 explain yourself
I deeply feel for all Cuban people and i feel even more for those who believe that communism a social political efficient way of government.
Get the US propaganda IV out of your neck.
This is an issue of US sanctions abusing this country and people.
@@VS-oq6rz definitely communism
To put things into context the sanctions against Cuba have been longer running and more extensive than the ones against Iran. Let that sink in. Further Cuba is on an island which makes any sanctions far more devastating. Further countries like Saudi Arabia that abysmally horrible we do not sanction. In fact we are military allies and sell our military equipment to them despite the fact their government ordered US citizens to be murdered on US soil.
@@VS-oq6rz im cuban, and it has mostly to do with communism.
I'm pretty sure Cubans live longer than Americans, have less child mortality and score better one tons of different criteria, Cuba trains more doctors and debt from "lunch debt" Americans grew up with to student loan debt too many Americans die with, are not things there.
USA, stop your petty 60 year old Embargo on CUBA
Don't get me wrong, I feel for all who suffer from a failing health care system. But, Michael Moore gave me the impression Cuba's health care system is superior to what we have in the U.S. Does this mean we, in the U.S., are suffering even more than the Cubans?
No, it means Michael Moore is full of … horse poo
you have to be trolling
Michael Moore is a tool.
Government mandates, censorship, socialist propaganda, soaring inflation, a failed public education system, empty shelves and shitty government health insurance you can't even use....Those poor Cubans
I’d say Cuba is far worse but that is why a lot of Cubans came to America. Now they are seeing the same thing happening in the United States
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this comment brought to you by a wannabe leftist tanky.
@@jackieeg the Vice "journalist" featured in this segment literally is the daughter of a rather famous terrorist. it's like watching a VICE video where the supposed journalist providing "unbiased" coverage of events in the middle east is the son of Osama Bin Ladin. It's almost comical.
ANOTHER LEFTIST SYMPATHIZER
Yeah I have been to Cuba in early 2000's. The shelves were empty then.
that has to be one of the prettiest old ladies I have seen she must have been an absolute stunner in her younger years .. heartbreaking and tragic Mucho Amor A mis hermanos Cubanos!
This is what happens when you let government take care of your life. Praying for the people of Cuba.
Why can't cuba produce enough food for itself? Its a very fertile and not even small island. You could grow anything there.
I saw in a statistic from 2017, that cuba imports 60 - 80% of its food, while they surely could produce almost 100% for themselves. Stupid system...
CUBA IS BLOCKADED. Try to buy tractors, tools, fertiliser, under a blockade? US or UK wouldnt last 10 minutes.
Now look at the USA - 60 million people turned to food banks, food pantries, and other private food assistance programs in 2020. What about them, are you equally outraged, or are you turning a blind eye and suddenly less critical?
Solution - end the blockade. End capitalism. All power to the working class.
@@Left_it blind communist bot spreading false information. They can build luxurious hotels for tourist but can't feed its own people. You never lived it so hush.
This is what you call a make shift decentralized pharmacy with no pharmacists
That might be the only way to get medicines in the US. I'm seriously considering learning how to use the dark web and I'm in a first tier US city.
@@alexcarter8807 I like that
@@alexcarter8807 I get your idea but 1, the DW is not something you just decide to play around with. It can have severe consequences.
And 2, OTC meds is one things but it’s not worth your life to mess with anything needing a prescription. That is a Federal Crime. Meaning Federal Prison!
Find a safer way to do things if this is something you really want to do. I’m sure there are other legal volunteer groups that already do this. You just need to find them(on the regular) web ✌️
Breaks my heart for the people.
I wish Vice put a link or the phone number of a WhatsApp group so we can also help with sending medicine.
DON'T DO IT, THE DICTATOR REGIME SEIZES THEM AND THEN USE THEM TO SELL.
@@vergaghulio3993 Omg you are delusional...WhatsApp is used by organizers because its encrypted. Even in the U.S. because, believe it or not, the U.S. government isn't kind.
@@breynoso19 No he is correct, the cuban government controls all humanitarian aid, and sells them to the people in usd. The best way to help is directly to someone who needs it. And currently the cuban gov just passed a law where they can incarcerate an individual for receiving foreign aid, so even that would be putting the people at risk . Source: cuban born
@@breynoso19 They will literally still seize the supplies. They have no respect for civilians and treat them like peasants. Quit being so godamn ignorant.
@@olivia2269 Wow!! That is so sad and frustrating for those that want to help. Is there SOMEWAY people can help directly, discreetly?
Does the Cuba government not have money to buy food and medicine from other countries like India or China. I bet they keep their soldier well fed or else they would have to worry about a military coup.
Way to show those Cuban civilians who is boss America! Truly is gods work preventing humans from getting supplies that would save their life.
Then don't anger the world power in your backyard? The Cuban government stands strong in the face of US tyranny and its people suffer. How long does that last?
@@sampleentry5253 I stand with Cuba. American aggression is wrong and its terrible
1) The embargo started with Cuba stealing all the US owned factories there, then aligning themselves with the country that wanted to nuke us, but close enough to actually do it. 2) The embargo doesn't restrict food or medicine. While there was speculation the travel restrictions limited the flow of medical information, the internet is a thing now and the whole world has travel restrictions because there's a pandemic. 3) Russian oligarchs took all Cuba's money in the 80's, which did far more damage than the embargo ever did. 4) Obama did a LOT to re-establish relations with Cuba, including offering a tractor factory, fiber internet, ferry service and a cargo ship to and from Florida - most of which was rejected by Cuba. Especially the tractor factory. It was going ahead until Castro found out one of the Americans recently obtained Cuban citizenship - and Cubans aren't allowed to own factories in Cuba, because that's how communism works (it would probably work better without greedy dictators at the top). So anyway, now Cuban farmers don't have enough tractors, and there's not enough food.. for some reason. 5) You live in LA, I don't want to hear it from you; I was there distributing PPE for the riots and getting cops arrested by the FBI, while you were buying toys from billionaires and goofing off with celebrities
Preach it driver. God is busy with other things. Get off your butt and do something
@@TheBusDriverExperience you literally don't know what the embargo is about 👏👏. They should remove it, but don't even dare to say it's because of it - it's because we in eastern europe destroyed USSR (that was a good day) which was maintaining Cuba by bullying eastern europe to buy sh¡t from them. My own country had even worse living conditions. And we didn't have an US embargo genius. Both US and Cuban elite are guilty as far as I see it
I feel bad an pray for all my sickle cell warriors over their who can’t get their proper care!! You are not forgotten about
"Financial mismanagement and sanctions cost the economy to shrink".
Right, nothing to do with the communism, got it.
“Financial mismanagement” you mean socialism right