The History of US Sanctions on Cuba w/ Helen Yaffe
Guerrilla History
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The Impact of Sanctions on Cuba
Cuba has survived by having a centralized planned economy, which put the welfare of its population as a priority. There are no private interests, there's no speculation and all of these characteristics make their Cuban biotech sector extremely efficient and productive. The situation in Cuba has been exhausting, a daily grind with no real immediate prospects of improvement since 2019. And what you can see is it is just an enactment on the chapter that wrote the 1960s: let's create desperation and hunger and see if we can achieve this.
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