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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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[–] comfy@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

From a political science perspective (or most people outside the USA), most of the US has liberalist ideology, including Republican voters. The electoral system is called a liberal democracy. The country rallying cry is for "freedom"; liberty.

US mass media simply started calling progressive liberalism "liberalism", conservative liberalism "conservativism", and classical liberalism "libertarianism". It's silly and confusing, but it's the world we're in right now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalism