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Communist Cuba, the darling of progressive champions like Sen. Bernie Sanders, Mayor Karen Bass, and CPUSA leader Gus Hall, is not doing so well. After Venezuela ran out of money and Russia spent all its money buying Iranian drones, the Communist regime ran out of Castros and cash.
The power is down and has been going down on and off for days. And unlike California, there’s not much of an industry or a taxpayer base that the ruling Communist elite can loot for repair money.
The Cuban Communist regime is reliably blaming the American embargo, but when you’re a Communist regime, blaming all your problems on the refusal of the capitalists to sell you stuff ought to be embarrassing.
Taking a lesson from California, the Cuban regime has however demanded more money from the ‘private sector’ and announced plans to build more solar power. The problem with solar power (apart from the fact that it’s an expensive and highly inefficient gimmick mainly good for putting money in the pockets of green investors and Communist China) is that Cuba can’t make its own and is deeply hostile of foreign businesses which means that its solar pipe dreams are as real as Das Kapital’s economics.
Good news though.
As part of the 2015 Paris Agreement, the Cuban government committed to 37% of its power coming from renewable energy by 2030, an ambitious increase from an initial 24% targe
The actual number is 5%. And a bunch of that apparently involves burning cane sugar.
The share of Cuba’s electricity that comes from renewable sources like solar and burning sugar cane waste has increased only slightly, from 3.8% in 2012 to 5% as of 2022, according to research from the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School and EDF
Perhaps some greenie can educate me about the environmental impact of burning cane sugar on the planet.
Meanwhile, there’s no power, there are shortages of running water, and pretty much everything else.
There’s only one answer: California Gov. Newsom must immediately take over Cuba.
Why don’t they just print a few trillion more Banco Central de Cuba notes?
“Bidenomics is, um, focused on helping middle class families lead bitter lives.” ~Biden Treasury Secretary Janet Yellin
Havana used to be known as the Paris of the Caribbean.
And Paris used to be known as the Paris of France, now it’s the Paris of Islam.
Pre – Castro, of course.
Cuba used to be known as the Pearl of the Caribbean. The Communists have really messed it up.
Yes Cubans used to come to America for vacations….and then go home! They don’t do that now, do they? They ride rafts made out of beer cans and fight sharks just to get to Miami and escape that shit-hole.
Havana really was the pearl of the Caribbean.
Oh, that reminded me of something I was once interested in. If I remember correctly, Havana was the Dance Capital of the world before the Communists took over. Meaning Havana had the best dancers in the world.
The Cuban emigres and their descendents still have some fine dancers.
Yes, Andy Garcia and Steven Bauer are of Cuban descent.
I saw them dance in a couple of movies. 🙂
And Beirut used to be known as the Paris of the Middle East.
Funny how every time leftists take over a city it always goes from Paris of the “fill in the blank” to what the real Paris is actually like now…..a Muslim s-hole.
And the scary guy in the picture looks like a genuine sadist.
This is just a sample of the deindustrialization that the WEF wants for everyone. I’m sure the elites and the Chinese installations all have altenative power to the contrywide grid.
Who’s misruling Cuba nowadays, anyway? Diaz? PFF! I think it’s the military, which has no expertise or experience at battle, much less politics.
And as far as embargoes go, Cuba receives more goods, services and flat out cash from America than any other other country on Earth. That government sure isn’t growing its own beans, providing basic utilities and paying for anything on its own. Even their cars are all 75 years old except the ones their politburo overlords drive. “The Old Man And the Shithole.”
And burning cane sugar makes the by-product of molasses. Only soulless zombies don’t love molasses. That stuff is great. It even goes good in coffee.
Where old American cars go to be reborn 🙂
They just need to torture and execute a few more reactionaries. That should fix it.
Oh yes, the BLOCKADE! THAT is the source of all of Cuba’s problems! Odd thing though, just because the USA is SORT OF not doing business with Cuba there’s nothing that prevents the rest of the world from doing so! I guess the main issue is that most companies don’t want to depend on the COMMUNISTS to actually PAY THEM!
Communists are really good at pissing in their own cornflakes then blaming everyone else when they don’t like the taste.
Americans are probably not paying attention to what’s going on in Cuba, but they should. Imagine being without electricity, food, or water for days on end.
Sounds like California during a “rolling blackout.”
When you have to throw away everything you had in your refrigerator, it ain’t good.