Senior Cuban officials have provided an increasingly dire snapshot of a deepening economic crisis in a series of televised prime-time appearances, revealing the extent of the downturn in unprecedented detail.
We just did it in Venezuela. And politicians in the US have been looking for a reason to normalize relations with Cuba since the fall of the USSR.
Elections are hardly some crazy thing to ask for.
Do you think “free, multiparty elections” would be held without overwhelming US interference?
Probably. Without the support of the USSR, we don’t have as much of an existential threat posed by Cuba. Especially since the support for the embargo in the US has fallen below 50% in recent years. Neither party will end it while the Castro Dictatorship is in power because of the political pull survivors concentrated in Florida have. So whomever does it needs a “see it worked” in order to do so.
Just as a reminder: before the revolution,
Bautista predats the Cold War. We supported a lot of dictatorships in the Cold War that we wouldn’t end up supporting long term. Gaddafi and Saddam are excellent examples of dictatorships we supported and then opposed post Cold War.
We just did it in Venezuela. And politicians in the US have been looking for a reason to normalize relations with Cuba since the fall of the USSR.
Elections are hardly some crazy thing to ask for.
Probably. Without the support of the USSR, we don’t have as much of an existential threat posed by Cuba. Especially since the support for the embargo in the US has fallen below 50% in recent years. Neither party will end it while the Castro Dictatorship is in power because of the political pull survivors concentrated in Florida have. So whomever does it needs a “see it worked” in order to do so.
Bautista predats the Cold War. We supported a lot of dictatorships in the Cold War that we wouldn’t end up supporting long term. Gaddafi and Saddam are excellent examples of dictatorships we supported and then opposed post Cold War.