Supporting the information provided by @BTCLNAT about life in Cuba, I will bring you photos of the Cuban reality, which is not told or shown to you by the media.
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6 sats \ 0 replies \ @bitalion OP 15 Sep
I missed this photo a few blocks from the Capitol, what you see in the background.
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1 sat \ 5 replies \ @stack_harder 15 Sep
things like this should be shown to young people who are having their communist idealization phase. communism has never worked.
out of curiosity, do you think there could ever be another revolution in Cuba or a way to become a democracy? or is it all pretty hopeless?
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32 sats \ 0 replies \ @BTCLNAT fwd 15 Sep
A revolution requires money. In Cuba you don't have money to save. It is true that there are people without money, but there are government management techniques that quickly dilute any attempt.
For example, in 1953 when those who are now in power, assaulted the Moncada and Carlos M de Cespedes barracks, they traveled from the west (Artemisa) to the east (Santiago de Cuba) in a 1953 Chevrolet, loaded with weapons that they bought or stole from gun dealers. I invite you to try to travel today. First, forget to have a new car, forget to get close to a weapon, forget to have fuel for the cars, forget to have money to finance a revolution.
When someone has a certain amount of money in their possession, the last thing they think about is making a revolution or changing something, they buy their ticket and leave. As @bitalion said, those of us who are still here, it is because of a lack of resources, or in other cases because of family issues that cannot be left behind.
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @bitalion OP 15 Sep
I don't think so in the short term, what they are choosing to do is leave the country. A few years ago there were about 11 million, now it is estimated at approximately 900k. Those of us who have no way of surviving are still here.
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @stack_harder 15 Sep
how is the general support for the gov among the people? is it possible to voice dissent or does it have to be kept to private settings?
are there still groups of hardcore gov lovers/supporters? or are those the ones whose income and lifestyle are tied to the ruling regime?
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32 sats \ 1 reply \ @BTCLNAT fwd 16 Sep
Here are those who come from the government and those who die because of the government, not in its defense, but rather because the government kills them in some way.
For example, recently the former Minister of Economy tried to flee Cuba, because he was supposedly tired of going out on a limb. But while he was living off the governor, something went wrong. Thus, the former president of the municipal assembly of the people's power of the Isle of Youth was not allowed to enter the United States, and he appears with the strange story that he had nothing to do with the repression of September 11 on the Isle of Youth, that he only sent the buses for the repression.
There are many people against it, but it is difficult. People live as they can and as soon as they can, they leave the country.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @stack_harder 16 Sep
thanks for taking the time to share this , i don't know much about Cuba , so it's very interesting. things sound very hopeless
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1 sat \ 6 replies \ @siggy47 14 Sep
Very sad. Thanks for the opportunity to see the Cuba most of us will never see
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43 sats \ 5 replies \ @bitalion OP 14 Sep
All these photos are in the capital of Cuba, Havana.
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @siggy47 14 Sep
What are the other cities and towns like?
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43 sats \ 2 replies \ @BTCLNAT fwd 15 Sep
More of the same. In the next few days I will be publishing, in continuation of this post by @bitalion, photos of the area where I live. You will see that it is as sad as in the capital. Of course, the capital has a higher level. I am originally from the capital, but I no longer go there because of the pain it causes me.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @siggy47 15 Sep
I guess most people live in Havana?
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43 sats \ 0 replies \ @BTCLNAT fwd 15 Sep
Around 3 million people are in Havana every day. Of these, 2 million are registered as people who have residence in the city, the rest are people who go to receive certain services that are not available in the rest of the country, others who are visiting their families, some who go to do business in the capital and a good number are MEMBERS OF THE POLICE AND OTHER FORCES OF REPRESSION.
When you see in the videos the citizens of the capital facing forces of repression, those forces are made up mostly, if not absolutely, of people from other provinces. Of course, this is not the case in the other provinces; Havana residents do not go anywhere else to work.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BTCLNAT fwd 14 Sep
But that is the sad reality of the capital. Only the exterior. There are interiors of places that are sensitive for the citizens, which hurt a lot.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BTCLNAT fwd 14 Sep
Here we see the true face of life in Cuba. Thanks @bitalion for showing it. A few days ago a stacker showed some photos of Cuba. Central and emblematic places like the Yara cinema, old cars and others. I told him that if another day he traveled to Cuba he should show the reality in his heart. He promised me that he would do so. You will see that what is shown here now is the reality, UNFORTUNATELY.
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