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What is going on in Cuba? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by GiorgioPerlasca@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Mainstream news describe the economic situation is Cuba as extreme, see for example, this article by CNN: https://edition.cnn.com/2025/08/22/americas/cuba-crisis-energy-economy-intl-latam

Is that true? How to get a realistic account of the current situation in Cuba? Is United States blockade getting worse?

Edit. Added a mainstream source and re-stated my question in a more neutral tone.

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[–] Estebiu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Never trust news from a single source/political sphere, no.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That sounds good in theory, but keep in mind that 99% of English-language news sources are liberal ones.

[–] gitgud@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Et alors, j'etudais Francaise! Attend...

[–] GiorgioPerlasca@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago

There is a lot of left-leaning content available in French! They have a lot of scholars and thinkers who are openly leftists, and in Europe it will not scare anyone.

[–] Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But my single source got his producer illegally arrested by the NSW gestapo and his house firebombed by criminal gangs. I'd say pissing off the powerful to that extent earns some trust.

[–] eldoom@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is your single source of news Boy Boy??

[–] Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Jordan Shanks, but I also follow Boy Boy as of recently.

[–] eldoom@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I believe a similar thing happened to Boy Boy after their laundering money in casinos thing actually.

[–] Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I just considered them "firebombed by association". Jordan's collaboration with them can be interpreted as an endorsement, and I trust Jordan because he got firebombed.

[–] eldoom@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

Oh okay so it's the same incident. I've been having the confusions for like a week and I was thinking "it happened twice?!"