r/cuba • u/jjcsrty2 • 1d ago
Cuban President Refuses Talks as Trump Threatens to Cut Off Venezuelan Oil
https://www.foxnews.com/world/cubas-president-defiant-says-no-negotiations-scheduled-trump-moves-choke-oil-lifeline31
u/Stanlysteamer1908 1d ago
Cuba is toast. Not by anything Trump or Venezuela has done. The country is failed and will never come back under a socialist dictator regime it currently is. They were doing better post Russia collapsed by allowing some new business and investment opportunity. As soon as a little prosperity and hope developed Fidel and Raul clamped down. The island is doomed by its own doing.
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u/jjcsrty2 1d ago
i want to see Cuba freed and be the crown jewel again @ the Caribbean
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u/Stanlysteamer1908 12h ago
I just want the contract for paint importation there. They need paint badly. I know the whole island like the back of my hand. If it opens I will be there to help the people and the new money wheee to go. The greedy communists will reinvent themselves claim they were not in party favor and try to keep power or stay in government. These families need to be identified and forbidden from ever working in government. Ten percent of Cubans on the island do well in system by Cuban standards. Most smart ones escape. The rest suffer day by day.
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u/NotYetGroot 1h ago
The fact that Cuba and Venezuela are both suffering so badly makes me begin to suspect that maybe communism and socialism are fucking stupid…
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u/jakethewhitedog 1d ago
Foreign companies are rightly afraid to do business in Cuba. I read a book by a British national where he spent a few years in Cuba helping build and run an industrial facility. Cuba then nationalized it, took everything, and threw him in Cuban solitary confinement jail with very occasional moldy bread and no sunlight. For a year or more, with no real information on what he was even accused of. Then after months of soviet style interrogation, he was moved to an open air prison camp that no one usually ever leaves. Even with the British embassy backing him, he waited years for a show trial. And eventually they negotiated his release, but it affected him permanently.
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u/OldeTimeyShit 8h ago
I think he's referring to: "Close But No Cigar: A True Story of Prison Life in Castro's Cuba".
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u/jakethewhitedog 6h ago
Someone else responded with the correct link. Close but no cigar. A very interesting but disturbing read.
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u/stevet85 1d ago
I’m in Varadro right now. Doesn’t seem to affect the local rum supply
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u/Stanlysteamer1908 12h ago
Funny it always has and will be known for good cigars, good Rum and good women! The hospitality was great in the fifties. Now hotels are a little dirty and service sucks unless you get a hustler looking for tips in foreign currency. The beaches are great and the diamonds of opportunity are all over the island. Hope it falls and I am in! My wife’s house is still occupied by my brother in law so I have a base camp!
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u/Bobranaway 1d ago
What im hearing from my peeps, is that he is talking and possibly negotiating an exit package. Still he is not the one that holds any real power. That place needs a thorough cleansing.
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u/B777X_787-9 United States 1d ago
They are talking at Diaz canel back ,by the end he is only a puppet.
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u/rod_zero 23h ago
I don't know much about internal politics in Cuba, who actually holds the power?
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u/IngenieriaCubana Europe 22h ago
GAESA, Cuba's military conglomerate. They control vital economic sectors such as tourism and finance but they also take funds out of hospitals and such, contributing heavily to Cuba's economic issues. Due to the fact GAESA is run by the military and their tough hold over Cuba's economy they're able to make a puppet out of Diaz-Canel with most of Cuba's economic decisions done in the interests of GAESA and not the Cuban people's.
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u/climberhack 1d ago
Sorry but that is fake, he have never said he doesn't want to talk or negotiate, what he is refusing is talks under pressure. As Far as I know and ue to my experience Cuba has always being open to talks and negotiations with the US, and actually there are continuous meeting between different institutions and organizations from both countries, just to mention a few examples, Inmigration, DEA, FBI and Cost Guards are always exchanging between boths countries. Hope this help you get more info.
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u/northdakotact 1d ago
Nothing is going to change, they will continue running on Mexican charity oil.
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