Laurent Alemany, 4, looks at the small amount of powdered milk her mother receives under Cuba's rationing system — a consequence of the U.S.- backed economic blockade — on April 16, 2022, in Havana, Cuba.The island of Cuba is going through its worst economic crisis since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
as the “leadership of our Party and government has never allowed, nor will it ever allow, the proliferation of corruption, simulation and insensitivity.” During the Cold War, Cuba managed to lessen the full impact of the U.S. economic blockade by trading with Socialist bloc countries. With the Soviet Union buying Cuban sugar, nickel ores, rum and tobacco at preferential prices, from 1960 to 1985,, “the total amount of Soviet sugar subsidies exceeded 22 billion dollars.” In 1992, one year after the collapse of the Soviet Union plunged Cuba’s economy into a major crisis known as the “special period,”asked Fidel Castro for a comment on the economy.
Sánchez conceded that, “During the presidency of Barack Obama, there was a flourishing in the Cuban economy and there were more opportunities to start businesses in the private sector, as well as the acquisition of basic necessities for the people.” In Carlos Rivera is 40-year-old health care worker at a public hospital in Havana, who also requested to use a pseudonym. For Rivera:
During the Cold War, the United States promoted similar campaigns against the Cuban revolution. After the failed Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961, Washington ignored blatant acts of terrorism committed by elements of the Cuban hard right exile community in Miami, Florida, up through thewere accused of having introduced African swine fever virus into the island, which resulted in the forced the slaughter of 500,000 pigs to prevent a full-scale animal epidemic.
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