• RapidcreekOP
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    Lack of milk in Cuba, a recurring problem, unlike most all caribbean countries

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      I wonder if there’s anything different that would cause it to be harder for them to import things.

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        It couldn’t be a trade issue with one of the biggest milk exporters I’m sure

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          Yeah, food which can only be traded for with cash. Which is in short supply because there are some sort of restrictions on Cuba’s ability to trade commodities and raw resources for cash.

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              If it’s purely because they don’t have much worth trading then why not lift the embargo and give them access to world trade, banks, and resources again? What’s the harm?

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                  The US embargo also affects other countries. They don’t let ships dock at Cuba and then the US, for example. The reason they get oil from Venezuela is because they’re also iced out of much of the world market by US through sanctions.

                  Also, the US is 80 miles off the coast of Cuba and huge. Them not being available to trade with Cuba is a huge disadvantage.

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        Communist countries don’t handle these things well.

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      If cuba wasn’t under sanctions, the playing field would be level. Yet you still blame it on communism as if it’s the only reason.

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        And they still wouldn’t have enough milk.

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          Then why the embargo? Surely communism would ruin the country enough on its own and they could just lift it…

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              There’s an embargo on literally everything else that makes it hard to get food, including they have difficulty even transferring money, or getting the parts and machines to grow their own food, or oil to run them.

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                Not at all. Nice try though. If you want to buy them milk, the barges leave the US twice a week. I’m sure they’ll appreciate it.

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      What could be different about this country’s ability to import milk? Surely it is beyond our ability to know.

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        The only thing America allows them to import is weapons for armed groups that want to overthrow the Cuban government. I hear those are subsidized…