• IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    20 days ago

    Yes but the amount of trade that happens is so miniscule that it doesn’t do much for their economy.

    It’s like having someone pin you to the ground, tie up your hands and feet and rest their knee on your neck and then ask why you’re having a hard time getting up on your own

    • PugJesus@lemmy.world
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      19 days ago

      Yes but the amount of trade that happens is so miniscule that it doesn’t do much for their economy.

      Bruh, Cuban-Canadian trade is worth over a billion annually. They’re one of Canada’s largest trade partners.

      I guess the Netherlands and Spain are also inconsequential, and China is, of course, holding back on TRULY trading with Cuba out of fear for US sanctions despite the fact that China is already trading with Cuba on a massive scale.

      Cuba was the third richest country in Latin America before the fall of the SovUnion. Could it possibly be that their economy was built on a house of cards and they haven’t meaningfully shifted since it fell?

      At some point you have to accept that the embargo, while wrong, is just not even close to core to the problems Cuba faces.