Every bad policy or decision the communist Castro dictatorship makes, every act of oppression, every political prisoner, is always blamed on a U.S. embargo that does not really exist. Cuba imports food, medicine, and products from all over the world, including the U.S. What the Cuban regime really wants is access to U.S. loans, the only real restriction in U.S. sanctions, which they will never pay back, and American taxpayers will get stuck with the bill.
After 65 years of socialist revolution and its monumental failures, the Castro dictatorship still won’t take responsibility and blames its corruption and repression on the so-called embargo.
Arturo McFields explains in an OpEd in The Hill:
The Cuban embargo is a lie, but Cuban repression and corruption are real
In March, massive protests broke out in Santiago, Bayamo, El Cobre and other towns in Cuba. The people demanded electricity and food, homeland and life and of course the end of 65 years of corrupt, inept and criminal dictatorship.
As usual, the Cuban dictatorship blames the U.S. embargo against it. But the problem is not the false embargo.
The so-called embargo against Cuba ended a long time ago. Cuba receives thousands of goods from Canada, China, Spain, Mexico, Brazil, Germany and an endless list of other nations. The chicken most often consumed on the island comes from the U.S., from which it purchases up to $300 million in poultry products.
The Cuban regime manages the island’s entire economy and manages it poorly. Inflation is 30 percent, with the price of gasoline increasing 400 percent. Milk is a luxury product for the vast majority of Cubans. In just three years, the value of the Cuban peso on the street has plummeted from about 50 per U.S. dollar to 325.
The Cuban dictatorship has done everything it can to camouflage the crisis. It has fired officials, reformed economic plans and blamed the empire. Nothing works. The people are fed up with lies and deceit. There are no arguments that hide reality.
The priest Pedro Reyes describes post-Castro Cuba as “a revolution of ruins, dirt and misery.” This brave religious man assures that no one believes anymore in the tyrants’ constant speeches about how every day demands new and greater sacrifices from the people.
For the first time in history, the Cuban dictatorship has asked for milk donations from the UN World Food Program, a confession of the regime’s scandalous failure.
The regime is promoting modern slavery. Finding a medical specialist in Cuba, a country without doctors and without medicines, is like finding a needle in a haystack because all or almost all are being used abroad to raise money for the dictatorship. They are slaves, earning millions for the regime with their work overseas, for which they receive mere crumbs as compensation.
Castro’s dictatorship destroyed agricultural and livestock production in Cuba. A country that once exported food today begs for it. The regime buys 2 billion dollars in basic products, but corruption and mismanagement generate poverty and shortages of goods.
Communism never produces wealth, it only creates unemployment, hunger and misery. It also produces political repression. Amid the fraudulent elections and atrocious shortages, Cuba continues to maintain the death penalty and torture, as it currently holds more than 1,000 political prisoners.
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Plenty of people believe that lie, or act as if they do, and that’s what matters to Castro, Inc.