Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister: Deliberate U.S. Policy of "Destroying Cuban Economy" Drives Migration
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We speak with Carlos Fernández de Cossío, Cuba's deputy minister of foreign affairs, about high-level U.S.-Cuban migration talks held last week in Washington. He says U.S. policies that expedite permanent residency for Cubans in the United States play a major role in the movement of people between the two countries, but adds that the main driver of migration is the decadeslong U.S. embargo. "The economic conditions of the people of Cuba push them to migrate, and an important fact in provoking those conditions are U.S. deliberate policies of destroying the Cuban economy and make it unworkable." Fernández de Cossío also discusses the 2024 election and policy overlap between the Trump and Biden administrations, Cuba's position on the U.S.-backed Israeli war on Gaza, recent protests inside Cuba over living conditions and more.
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After Katrina, Cuba was one of the first countries to offer help to the US. *1,500 doctors and 26 tons of medical supplies* were rejected by Bush. Most Americans want to end the embargo, but unfortunately, we don't have any say in what the US govt does anymore. End the embargo. Solidarité 🇨🇺✊
Really you mean the 1500 slave labor doctors. Give ne a break. Cuba wants freedom, then give it to its citizens.
@@TheSjsicilia calling them slaves is pretty disingenuous. Service obligations for school scholarships are fairly normal. The US military requires at least 7 years of full-time active duty service after graduating from med school, and regret isn't uncommon (see the Military_medicine subreddit). Are they slaves?
As for "giving Cuba democracy," while certainly not perfect, Cuba has democratic elections. Is it perfect? No. Could it be better? Yes, but the US shouldn't be trying to give anybody democracy. While past performance doesn't guarantee future results, in the last 100 years, the US has only successfully spread democracy maybe twice. We barely get democracy to work at home, let alone getting it to work somewhere else by force.
Cuba has a lot of problems, but if their economic and political system is as inherently flawed as we're told, why is it still going after 60 years of US govt plotting sanctions?
Too bad they don't offer medical help to the Cuban people while volunteering it to the US. And you have no clue what means, btw.
@@patriayvida6850 don't be rude.
Do you have a source?
@@TheSjsicilia "slave labor doctors" ? 🤣 People from countries around the world (Even the US) go to Cuba to study medicine. Stop drinking the poisoned kool-aid, go put your tin-foil hat back on to protect yourself from the Havana-radio-beams and aliens, and get off the internet.
Sanctions should end!
End the embargo, free Cuba!
I like this gentleman and always despised that cruelty that keeps this unjust embargo on a country that is very beautiful with many kind and thoughtful people, just trying to take care of themselves and their families! Where in the Hell is the "crime" in that?
Your insipid comments hurt the people of Cuba. The US has nothing to do in Cuba. The Cuban system is so ridiculous. Cubans can protest? Lol.
My son and daughter-in-law were recently traveling in Cuba when she suffered a miscarriage. She ended up the hospital for five days while her infection was being treated.. (fortunately they had purchased medical insurance before they came). The medical system there (apparently free for citizens?) was excellent. The staff were wonderful, and the hospital even provided my son with a bed during her stay. It would have been a totally different experience if it had happened in in the US, or even in Canada.
I’m Cuban , yes the Foreigners get the best, the citizens the worst . And is not free , we pay with the underpayment of our salaries pay by the government
@@alainroldan2710 Educate these people please my fellow Cuban.
Alain and Nak's low test scores keep them both out of the mean crowd at the CIA. Instead, they're paid a stipend to troll the Internet in favor of capitalism.
@@alainroldan2710of course it’s not free, the idea is that citizens of a nation need to support each other through taxation unlike in the USA where your taxes go to the military and welfare for the ultra wealthy!
Go live there then.
End the embargo. Let cuba live !
There in NO embargo. Cuban communist propaganda.
Ask the Castro mafia to end the embargo against the Cuban couple.
Nobody knows what the embargo is even about. America lets cuba do their own bussines. Cuba does nothing with their money which is different. They live in a system in which they use hunger as a tool. Along with ignorance or stupidity. hence you
The USA government is not a democracy at all! They are always defending democracy but plotting against real democracy like the elected government in Chile in 1973! More than one million people had to leave the country, exiled or running away from the Pinochet’s brutality dictatorship placed by the USA’s government!
No Chilean citizens wanted to leave their own country, but forced to do so!!
@@ignaciosevil2157 bro you just described capitalism there. The embargo is horrible, if you don't understand it, doesn't mean it isn't real
Us should be sanctioning Isreal, not Cuba. I miss the days when we started normalizing relations with Cuba. The cultural exchanges was so fruitful.
With "journalism" like this, Trump will win and Cubans will be completely screwed. Progressives don't care.
Cuba has many resources unused. People cannot even have a home vegetal garden. zit is forbidden. You cannot have one tomato more than your neighbor. Instead, people have to stand in line, for hours. waiting for the government to hand you your ration. As a tropical island, fruit trees grow by themselves.
Cuba has sanctions for specific reasons. And, whomever says there is an embargo is giving misinformation. They live the US$. Communism for people and capitalism for the elite.
End the embargo.
Embargos do not work to force political change. North Korea, Cuba, and Iran all have embargos, yet they are all still ruled by the same people.
End the dictatorship - democracy for Cuba
Guatemala, Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, Bolivia, Mexico, Honduras, Suriname and the United States are corrupt countries with human rights abuses with potential political violence, police brutality and war crimes in the Americas.
And end the Jones Act for Puerto Rico!!! Quit treating the US territory like a red headed step child. They fought in our military and 6 million live on the Mainland. They are Americans and vote, never forget how Trump treated them after Maria was inhumane.
@@edydonshouldn't that be up to the Cubans?
For some reason Democracy Now no longer covers Venezuela and Nicaragua, which are subject to similar sanctions as Cuba.
Guatemala, Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, Bolivia, Mexico, Honduras, Suriname and the United States are corrupt countries with human rights abuses with potential political violence, police brutality and war crimes in the Americas.
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Surely, DN cannot cover everything. Just compare them to the mainstream garbage. DN has limited time and money, so they must be selective in their coverage.
The US creates unlivable conditions in other countries and exacerbates the immigration pressures. Support Cuba's economy so their citizens can live in Cuba.
Travel there through Mexico if you have a 🇺🇸passport
No one take responsibility of their own choice.
Cuba was close to Russian, correct? Now Russian not provide aids, they blame us for their own dictatorship choice?
So we support to help them to hurt us. Like we help give aids to Palestinians and they wish dead upon us.
Guatemala, Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, Bolivia, Mexico, Honduras, Suriname and the United States are corrupt countries with human rights abuses with potential political violence, police brutality and war crimes in the Americas.
@@lapinchechismosaCubans love American tourists it's like returning to a hero's welcome because they know we love them and support the people not the regime.
@@MyLoganTreks they do! I love Cuba, it’s the safest country I’ve ever been to
End embargos
End the wars
End all occupations
End apartheid
Equal rights for all
The one percent should share the Earth
My goodness, I had no idea here in Ireland. Sounds like there's a lot of work to be done, the day before yesterday.
It’s time to build a bridge of cooperation and understanding between both nations. We must move to the next chapter for the benefit of both countries. There’s a better world out there, and we must fight for it. 🇺🇸❤️🇨🇺
Cuba produces great doctors!
That's true.
The goverment of cuba pimp their doctors.
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You have to consider who controls izzytube. Google is in business with the izzies.
I get heaps of comments erased. The algorithms pick out certain words, and perhaps scrutinise some people more as I do see those words used in posts. I try and be polite, and present a factual argument, but debate against the ideas of the US administration isn't encouraged.
@@Waitingformarty Not just those against the US gov't.. Most of those are allowed, but when you check to see all of the pro-israel comments, they are not removed. even when they present misinformation, which is against youtube rules.
That was a beautiful and inspiring speech by Naomi Klei! An "Exodus from Zionism"! Loved it!!
My planned 10 day trip to Cuba was spoiled by Trump, my trip was just a few weeks away when it happened. I have wanted to visit Cuba since age eleven which was over 60 years ago.
Dont give up..ive been there twice. Beautiful country and culture..safe too
Ask from Luis Manuel Otero o por ferrer
Look up Global Exchange in San Francisco, Ca. They have been doing tours to Cuba for 30 yrs. In 2022 they were able to start tours to Cuba again. Their trips to Cuba attract people from all over the US and Canada.
Does Cubo even have an embassy in the US? I would like to visit Cuba.
I love visiting Cuba!🇨🇦. End the Embargo!🇨🇺
Thank you Democracy Now for this interview with Carlos Fernandez de Cossio. I love the spirit of Cuba, and would love to visit.
That guy does not represent the spirit of Cuba.
@nak5eno616 why not ? Explain please.
@@user-gd6qm9qs6n What do you feel would be fair compensation to the doctors being sent abroad by the Cuban government?
@@nak5eno616
Neither Biden nor Trump represents US!
@@nak5eno616 I was unnaware that Doctors were being sent abroad by the Cuban government.
I would not be able to say what Cuban Doctors ought to be paid either.
The "winking blinkin nod" administration "bad mouths" someone one day, and the next wants a warm reception.
Which country is a dictatorship???
USA and Israe, for starters!
@@kman5768also Cuba , one things not change the others
😂🤣😂🤔😂 That anyone thinks America is either a Democracy or a Republic shows how ignorant and brainwashed y'all are. You live in a Capitalist Oligarchy. The same as all the other western 'Democracies'.
US vote on UN is also isolated in reference to colonial Puerto Rico.. We are also suffering a gentrification in the whole archipelago thanks to the corruption of US and Puerto Rico's govt..
Cubans need some Buena Fortuna Farm from Mexico inspiration! Cuba looks really cool! I love the old cars, the recipes, the beach…. I bet a Latinos invented Musical Chairs.
Play music 🎶 and they just start dancing- in fact, watch John leguizamo… he just starts dancing for no reason at all anytime 😂 it’s my favorite thing about him!
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The Cuban Deputy Minister is a qualified, knowledgeable, caring representative of Cubans. What a diplomat he is and how terribly the Cubans suffer at the hands of the US gov't. - not the good American people on the ground - but the government. Awful.
Seems like you have drank the
Kool-aid as well.
US policy is so unfair towards Cuba. They have a right to self-determination. Mind your business. Leave Cuba alone!
Guatemala, Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, Bolivia, Mexico, Honduras, Suriname and the United States are corrupt countries with human rights abuses with potential political violence, police brutality and war crimes in the Americas.
We should bring business opportunities to the people of Cuba.
As a cuban I do not want communism in my country. Are you going to help me?
Great interview!!!
Yes you are right. IGNORANCE is bliss isnt.
It was a terrible interview.
End these sanctions, and let the peace-loving Cuban people live a decent life. Cuban people have suffered for so long with the US Government putting an embargo since 1959.
This foreign minister is actually pretty good. His answers are on point and his democratic posture is, real or not, evident.
He's full of shit.
time for these sanctions to be lifted . the have out live their usefulness
They were never useful.
Is nowadays USA even able to do anything positive for the world?
any sanction or embargo does NOT hurt a sanctioned government but a regular people. so, the greatest puzzle to me - why do we like hurting regular people?
Why is United States chocking Cuba? When I vacationed , there were many American tourists. Beautiful Cuban people in hospitality, beaches and tourism. Maybe if you weaken a country it’s a better option to take over. But obviously food seems to be the most important weapon today and the most valuable thing to keep society in check and or go against it.
This would be a master stroke, ending the embargo. Cuba to prosper, humans dont care for virtues, they want to consume. Cuba and central america.
Cuba is Americas Gaza .
Gaza is US Gaza. Defund aggressor/terrorist nations. Condemn genocide and inhumanity.
@vivavasquez Not even close. Cuba has is good compared to what Israel has done to the Palestinians.
No because nobody backs up Gaza 💔😭
Definitely 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾💔💔💔😭😭😤😤😤🤬🤬🤬, the barbaric nature of these western oppressors, that used every unethical tactics to manipulate weaker nations, jah, jah, who is the weapon of mass destruction now??? 😭😭😭🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
Guatemala, Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, Bolivia, Mexico, Honduras, Suriname and the United States are corrupt countries with human rights abuses with potential political violence, police brutality and war crimes in the Americas.
Fear not Cuba, the U.S. and it's handler
In the Levant cannot stand long. Their
duplicity has been revealed.
Mantain the line...we all paid the price for injustice.....Wonderful interview and guest!
This Cuban embargo is a despicable anachronism.
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Beneath reproach, we are not, to realize this adds to the melting pot
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To understand the support Israel recieves from US, one has only to look at Cuba, and lately Puerto Rico and Haiti, and surmise the motives we may have to cause such suffering that people are forced to leave their land open for invasion to survive!!
Que VIVA CUBA!!!
Que VIVA PALESTINIA!!!
Let the Haitians in
Awesome reporting 🔥🔥🔥
He is correct enough is enough from the us bullying
We see them. We see them. There is absolutely no good reason for it.
End the Embargo!
The U.S. government is a terrifying place.
The embargo doesnt make sense in 2024. End it
DN needs to cover the current protests and conditions in Cuba and the embargo impact on Cubans as a factor in the border crisis.
Brilliant
The "embargo" on Cuba is so efficient that Cubans even export their cigars to Montenegro
15:16 Born in Birán, the son of a wealthy Spanish farmer, Castro adopted leftist and anti-imperialist ideas while studying law at the University of Havana. After participating in rebellions against right-wing governments in the Dominican Republic and Colombia, he planned the overthrow of Cuban president Fulgencio Batista, launching a failed attack on the Moncada Barracks in 1953. After a year's imprisonment, Castro travelled to Mexico where he formed a revolutionary group, the 26th of July Movement, with his brother Raúl Castro and Ernesto "Che" Guevara. Returning to Cuba, Castro took a key role in the Cuban Revolution by leading the Movement in a guerrilla war against Batista's forces from the Sierra Maestra. After Batista's overthrow in 1959, Castro assumed military and political power as Cuba's prime minister. The United States came to oppose Castro's government and unsuccessfully attempted to remove him by assassination, economic embargo, and counter-revolution, including the Bay of Pigs Invasion of 1961. Countering these threats, Castro aligned with the Soviet Union and allowed the Soviets to place nuclear weapons in Cuba, resulting in the Cuban Missile Crisis-a defining incident of the Cold War-in 1962.
Adopting a Marxist-Leninist model of development, Castro converted Cuba into a one-party, socialist state under Communist Party rule, the first in the Western Hemisphere. Policies introducing central economic planning and expanding healthcare and education were accompanied by state control of the press and the suppression of internal dissent. Abroad, Castro supported anti-imperialist revolutionary groups, backing the establishment of Marxist governments in Chile, Nicaragua, and Grenada, as well as sending troops to aid allies in the Yom Kippur, Ogaden, and Angolan Civil War. These actions, coupled with Castro's leadership of the Non-Aligned Movement from 1979 to 1983 and Cuban medical internationalism, increased Cuba's profile on the world stage. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Castro led Cuba through the economic downturn of the "Special Period", embracing environmentalist and anti-globalization ideas. In the 2000s, Castro forged alliances in the Latin American "pink tide"-namely with Hugo Chávez's Venezuela-and formed the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas. In 2006, Castro transferred his responsibilities to Vice President Raúl Castro, who was elected to the presidency by the National Assembly in 2008.
The longest-serving non-royal head of state in the 20th and 21st centuries, Castro polarized world opinion. His supporters view him as a champion of socialism and anti-imperialism whose revolutionary government advanced economic and social justice while securing Cuba's independence from American hegemony. His critics view him as a dictator whose administration oversaw human rights abuses, the exodus of many Cubans, and the impoverishment of the country's economy.
I think those nukes are leaking and fucking up the ocean and killing coral, the phosphorescence of the plankton and why the whales are pissed off enough to attack boats.
I am cuban , that is the truth. Many cubans, mostly blacks, were sent to Angola to export communism to Africa
So interesting learning about Cuba, ty!
They have no SHAME 😅😅😅
THEY CAN ONLY DESTROY.
Same as Haiti.
Sanctions always punish ordinary people.
As cuban in usa now. I do not want the Castros, nor communism in my country
the world really tireed of usa emperialism... i swear the usa is the real treath to humanity and earth...
You cannot compare the reason for the exodus of Puerto Ricans to the US versus Cuba's. Puerto Rico is a US territory and therefore enjoys benefits that Cuba does not. Cuba is a communist country thanks to the Castros. Both have economic reasons for migrating, but you cannot compare the two Mr. Foreign Minister.
Free to the cuban political prisoners. Luis manuel otero,, Michael ossobo, Jose Daniel ferrer and many others
Thanks
It’s true, the U.S. does this with their Puerto Rico colony. Ensure poverty remains in order to force natives to migrate to the U.S. as a cheap source of labor.
That's why the sanctions were imposed in the first place.
Democracy now has been my first priority since 25 years, believe it or not.
DUH!!!
Dear US Government, I am from Russia, from the Republic of Ingushetia, our people have been subjected to genocide since time immemorial, Russia never listened to us, but other regions listened and gave and are still giving them our lands, we don’t have lands left anyway, and those occupied are not for us they return, I understand that this is a policy of divide and conquer. please give me the opportunity to leave Russia for me and my family, I will be useful for America, I can become a farmer and be useful. Communism is evil; it doesn’t bother me; I’m under constant stress in Russia?!?!?
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Sorry, it's Russian microwaves weapon
take usa to court
Who is interviewer ? Do your homework - there is no blocase - Vessel Traffic - se all super tanqueta going into and leaving Havana. Search - World Bank and see exports and imports.
Reading a great book from Canton to Havana. A grand book on the chinese migration to Havana, the grand community, of over 250,000 that has been annihilated.
There is also a great book how the proud British then Americans annihilated millions of Indians!
Omg the 🇺🇸won’t leave Cuba alone 😢
It's subjugation would mean growing 🍌 and other consumables closer than in the country made infamous in the 1980's. Plus the near offshore Gambling prospects. Interesting, is it not, that Cuba did not immediately move to opening Casinos when Obama initiated normalization.
One would imagine that the dark side of Vegas and others plus the fact that casinos proliferate in such a free country yet not improve quality of life is probably all the evidence needed.
How about fair elections and let the people choose their leaders.
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Amy you cant be in the show!
if you believe that your life is good , think about what you are saying . I dont like that others are treated badly , but you know the real truth
Y con las protestas del Pueblo cubano tambien estan presente 😂😂😂 Q hipocrecia del gobierno cubano y los cubanos no necesitan q lo empujen a protestar, ustedes hacen un trabajo excellente en eso matando de necesidad el Pueblo cubano
Havana syndrome was thoroughly debunked, there's a few decent videos on here on the subject!
and cnn enjoying it! so stop the hypocray!
CUBA Too?A neighbour???😢
They're trying to get away from you and your ilk, pal.
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I think America needs to leave Cuba alone, because Communists can destroy their own country without our help.
This makes me want to visit Cuba!🇨🇺
7:23 trade Bezos and Musk for pretty much anything you can imagine 😂. You guys have the best cigars and and sweet brown liquor 🥃 💃🏽🕺🏼
the USA makes so many small countrys to suffer..its good that china and russia india can stand up to the usa
Cuba was a client state of the USSR and was completely economically dependent until the dissolution of the Soviet Union. There is no real economy in Cuba at present. They combine tourism and money from Cubans living outside the country in direct monetary aid to family members still living in Cuba. Foreign goods still get in to Cuba: I have seen with my own eyes Coke, Johnny Walker, Gerber, and other US products in dollars-only stores on the island. The embargo just requires cash-up-front and no purchases on credit. US President Bill Clinton negotiated this in exchange for the repatriation to Cuba of Elian Gonzalez. The embargo started when Cuba tried to unite Latin America in refusing to repay each country’s debts to the US.
False your statement, yes there are products in Cuba from USA, but they reach the country thru mypimes that are owned mostly by cubans american, they are taking advantage of the situation and prices are crazy, some of them do not work in usa because they are making a lot of money with the suffering of cuban people, , also cuba cannot export anything to usa. Also cuba offered compensation to us companies which was refused, you must be more tied to real History. Cuba compensated other countries like spain, uk and canada
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Stop talking about PR, for years has been attempting to export communism to PR.
I wonder if Cuba will ever have true freedom
“There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen.” ― Lenin
Ummm they do, they are free from privatization and late stage capitalism
The 🇺🇸prevents POC countries to flourish
It’s coming. Cuba has been making agreements with non western powers. BRICS will also liberate
They are not free from embargo. Illegal embargo.
Spread this around she is trying to get there from USA..
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Che visited Gaza! I didn't know.😅
Which is it are they trying to help Cuba or not? Mr. Deputy Foreign Minister you are contradicting yourself. You say that the US and Israel are against lifting the sanctions, then you say Biden and Trump is good for Cuba, Which is it?
😂😂 moren than a million Angolans had to free Angola when Cuba invaded and sustained a 20- year war.
Amy- et al!
you let this man lie about the "blackouts "and what the.underlying issues are in Cuba. Although I am glad he is in solidarity with Palistine, it is a contradiction. The authoritarian regime in cuba is SLOWLY killing its citizens by the thousands. I am a multidisciplinary artist, Columbia alum, teaching visual arts. now a days. I have sent you countless emails, Amy. What. happened in cuba was an idealized Utopian, which never really took off because. of human nature: greed, power, money. Just because Angela Davis, whom. I adore, moved there, it doesn't make it a good place. A good system of. government. so, yes, the constraints. of the embargo. fact. but it is also a fact. that cuba stopped producing internally years ago. It used to, even though there were/are constraints on trade. The question is why isn't the coutry producing for itself? Why are there so many political prisoners, without a trial? Why didn't you asking about July 11th, 2021 protests, and how many people where arrested and are in prison without a trial?
THE DIRE situation in cuba is that the regime is an authoritarian, militarized,, fascist state, controlled by one or 2 families. It is not a functioning democracy. (read that again, Democracy Now). You always lean more toward cuba being a functional state. You never have guests on here. that present. lived experiences, objective reporting, with factual evidence, or (thousands) of cubans living under a. phenomenon, a kind of loop, where the lack of EVERYTHING compels you to leave, specially now, with internet, and then if you do survive the journey, for some reason, specially if you make a raft and take to the seas thinking it is. a straight line, then you. can survive here. in the US. Otherwise, you die, like. thousands of cubans, who risked their lives to get to have a better life. A good life. AMY- you never speak about the human. rights violations in cuba. He also lied about the Che. Che - no matter what- was a criminal. I think it is pathetic how some people worship him in the USA. It's the same illusion of the "American dream." Fidel was and will always be a profound human failure. Talking. about displacing people. I would debate that with any. one. You never really present independent artists from Cuba or in exile, Some of the artists, journalists, film makers, who are under constant attack by the Cuban regime, some of. whom are in jail for asking free expression, democracy, and a free society, where the.ideals of the. so called revolution, are actualized and the system becomes a functioning democracy. not a fixed one. I respect you Amy, but when it comes to my country and other cuban intellectuals, artists, and musicians from cuba, you are. not very informed. or don't want to be. not sure. you are an intellectual, academic, journalist, as such, I admire you. I get. your "support. Democracy Now" emails $ asking, but why should I. give money if you have ignored. my emails. See, two things can exist. I can love your show and not give you money. I. love. the show, but please present. accurate. info, or challenge your guests when they lie or mislead you. OR have some of us in the Cuban diaspora come. and. talk about why we are the Diaspora,(to echo Naomi Klein's idea/ argument in her latest activist speech in. defense of Palestine)
Tje Cubans are good people there government is commy cuba needs to pay back all the money that they took from all the American businesses so that will never happen so starve who cares change your government revolt
😂🤣😂🤣😂 there nothing funnier than seeing someone displaying willful ignorance and thinking others don't see through it. 😂🤣😂🤣😂
Sanctions and embargoes on countries immigrants coming to USA and then they bawl about it. Stop supremacy and leave other countries alone. Impose fair trades and stop exploitation for outsourcing. Fair wages for all! Freedom for all!
Peace for all! ❤
If you don't want immigration stop sanctioning, embargoing, invading, bombing, overthrowing and interfering in the elections of their countries.
😂😂 use google maps and see the mansions on Havana Bsybfir government folks. Check the luxury cars driven by the Castro family. 😂😂😂
Obama stopped wet foot, dry foot for the Cubans
Because they would smuggle people on speed boats to Isla mujeres Mexico then take a cab to the embassy and claim asylum. I sailed there and sadly saw a sunken raft with nobody nearby, they still risk their lives to flee their situation.
CIA OMG!!!!!
This is stupid. Cuba need to thank Castro. He did this to cuba. So Thank Castro. Stop blaming America for your misfortune and lawlesness. That's cubas fault. I do agree they should drop all the embargo bs. But Castro made trouble for Cuba when they started dealing with the Russians. Remember the Cuban missile crises. There are lagit reasons for the embargos. On che ill say one man freedom fighter is another Mans criminal. Do some research on the man and tell yourself what he was.