{"id":64098,"date":"2026-03-22T11:06:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T10:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=64098"},"modified":"2026-03-24T09:44:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T08:44:33","slug":"cuba-a-human-safari-to-support-the-real-blockade-that-is-ruining-that-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/03\/22\/cuba-a-human-safari-to-support-the-real-blockade-that-is-ruining-that-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuba, a human safari to support the real blockade that is ruining that island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cuban communist dictatorship is suffering serious problems that could end up causing its fall in a short time.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2021\/07\/13\/cuba-and-the-blockade-what-the-left-doesnt-tell-you-about-the-us-economic-embargo\/\">Cuba and the 'blockade': what the left doesn't tell you about the US economic embargo<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2018\/11\/15\/socialists-and-communists-vote-against-a-condemnation-of-political-persecution-in-cuba\/\">Socialists and communists vote against a condemnation of political persecution in Cuba<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>At this time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.infobae.com\/america\/agencias\/2026\/03\/22\/cuba-sufre-el-segundo-apagon-total-de-su-sistema-electrico-en-una-semana\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the island is suffering from severe blackouts<\/a>. A month and a half ago, the tourism industry (the most important source of foreign currency) began to notice the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eldebate.com\/internacional\/20260207\/dictadura-cuba-empieza-cerrar-hoteles-reubicar-turistas-ante-desabastecimiento-combustible_382916.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">oil shortage problems<\/a>, with the island <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eldebate.com\/internacional\/20260209\/dictadura-cuba-comunica-aerolineas-24-horas-queda-combustible-aviones_383230.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">running out of fuel to refuel the planes<\/a> arriving from other countries.<\/p>\n<p>These problems have a simple explanation: <strong>the end of the Venezuelan oil supply that has been sustaining the Cuban dictatorship<\/strong>, in an infamous symbiosis between two anti-democratic regimes. A few days ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/mirandacenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/OIL-FOR-REPRESION-INFORME-english-1-1.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Miranda Center for Democracy published \"Oil for Repression,\"<\/a> noting that <strong>since 2000, Venezuela has transferred the equivalent of $63.8 billion worth of oil to Cuba.<\/strong> The report states the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\"<strong>Venezuela has paid Cuba $63.8 billion (at present value) to finance its own repression.<\/strong> This forfeited capital could have funded 67% of Venezuela's announced oil-sector investment requirement or rebuilt Venezuela\u2019s collapsed power and water grids three times over. <strong>By prioritizing the 'Oilfor-Repression' model, the regime traded the nation\u2019s industrial future for a Cuban-designed praetorian guard.<\/strong> This $63 billion stolen opportunity makes dismantling the GRUCE more than a political necessity, it is a prerequisite for economic recovery.\"<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>What the people of Venezuela have suffered is a colossal theft to sustain the Cuban communist dictatorship<\/strong>, a theft that came to an end last January with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/01\/03\/the-united-states-launches-its-attack-against-the-nicolas-maduro-dictatorship-in-venezuela\/\">the United States' intervention<\/a> to capture the dictator and drug trafficker Nicol\u00e1s Maduro.<\/p>\n<p>Faced with these facts, <strong>the extreme left tries to convince us that Cuba's problems are due to a US \"blockade\"<\/strong> and that if this weren't the case, the situation on the island would be considerably better. However, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2021\/07\/13\/cuba-and-the-blockade-what-the-left-doesnt-tell-you-about-the-us-economic-embargo\/\">as I already explained here, Cuba is not suffering from a blockade, but rather a trade embargo<\/a>. There are no US warships preventing goods from reaching the island. <strong>This embargo excludes food and medicine<\/strong> (something the extreme left always omits) <strong>and makes the democratization of Cuba a condition for its end.<\/strong> The communist dictatorship has always refused to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Faced with the risk of the communist dictatorship falling, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eldebate.com\/espana\/20260319\/nueva-flotilla-apoyada-pablo-iglesias-jeremy-corbyn-prepara-salir-hacia-cuba-proximamente_398084.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">far-left leaders from several countries have organized a trip to Cuba that pretends to be a \"humanitarian mission\"<\/a>. It is utterly repugnant cynicism. <strong>A genuine humanitarian mission to Cuba would require the end of the criminal dictatorship<\/strong> that has ruled the island without free elections since 1959, a regime that imprisons, tortures, and murders opponents and <strong>has ruined and oppressed the Cuban people<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/forbes.es\/start-ups\/9964\/la-extravagante-vida-de-fidel-castro\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">while the communist elite became immensely rich<\/a> \u2014a process already seen in other communist dictatorships.<\/p>\n<p>The trip to Cuba by left-wing extremists, including some who live in luxurious villas and always fly first class, is not a humanitarian mission. <strong>What the extreme left has gone to Cuba to do is a human safari that treats the misery of the Cuban people as a spectacle<\/strong>, a misery not caused by the United States or any other country, however much that anti-democratic regime tries to blame others for all the problems it has caused\u2014a common practice of all communist dictatorships.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cuba is in ruin because of one single, genuine blockade: the one the communist dictatorship has been imposing since 1959 (67 years now)<\/strong>, violating human rights, preventing Cubans from freely electing their representatives, governing with <strong>a one-party regime in which all other parties are banned<\/strong>, and turning any criticism of the regime into grounds for the most brutal repression. <strong>The extreme left has gone to Cuba to support this communist blockade and the criminal regime that imposes it.<\/strong> I hope they pay for it someday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cuban communist dictatorship is suffering serious problems that could end up causing its fall in a short time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11471],"tags":[10444,94,10497,159],"class_list":["post-64098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hispanicity","tag-communism","tag-cuba","tag-far-left","tag-venezuela"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-15 07:18:30","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}