Why Cuba Will Not Exist by 2034...

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This is the city of Havana in Cuba. About one fifth of the entire nation of Cuba lives within this city.
However, something strange has been happening here the last few years. Something so weird and catastrophic that at it current rate, in 10 years, this bountiful city, and the entire country. may no longer exist.

This is the angkor wat in Cambodia. Now I know what your thinking, what does this have to do with Cuba today. Well one, a lot, and two, shut your mouth.

Angkor, back in 12th century, was the *Las Vegas* of the ancient world—lavish, bustling, and absolutely over-the-top. Built by the Khmer Empire, it had a population that could give some of today’s cities a run for their money. We’re talking hundreds of thousands or even a million people, grand temples, massive reservoirs, and a sophisticated irrigation system that kept their rice paddies in business year-round. They constructed monuments like Angkor Wat, which you may have seen before in some pop culture media! With stone carvings, intricate designs, and towers reaching for the sky, Angkor was the cultural, political, and economic hub of Southeast Asia.

Vut then things started to change around the 14th century

First, Mother Nature decided to throw a wrench in their plans. The region went through a series of extreme weather events—droughts followed by monsoons—and their precious water management system went haywire. Without a steady water supply, their agriculture, which was the backbone of the empire, suffered. No water means no rice, and no rice means unhappy folks.

Then came the human element. In the 15th century, the Ayutthaya Kingdom (from modern-day Thailand) rolled in and said, "This place looks nice; we'll take it!" After a series of conflicts, including the sacking of Angkor in 1431, the Khmer rulers threw in the towel and decided it was time to pack up and move the capital to Phnom Penh. Oh, and let's not forget the changing trade routes. As maritime trade became the new hot trend, Angkor found itself sitting awkwardly inland, far from the bustling trade ports. Its star power faded as coastal cities took over.

Fast forward a few centuries, and Angkor was actually a myth, swallowed by the jungle. In fact, there was only one description of it for the western world. It was from António da Madalena in 1586…he said “It is of such extraordinary construction that it is not possible to describe it with a pen, particularly since it is like no other building in the world. It has towers and decoration and all the refinements which the human genius can conceive of”.

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[pixelitoloquendero]

As a Cuban, I can only say that the island's declining situation and its terrible living conditions (energy crisis, food crisis, transportation crisis, water crisis, housing crisis, lack of medicines, even insecurity) are what make young people, and everyone who can afford it, leave Cuba. The Cuban government has shown enormous incompetence and inability to face a crisis for which it blames mainly the United States and its economic sanctions, because they are afraid of taking more serious measures in the economic and political spheres because they could lose their influence, since the current rulers prioritize their personal well-being and wealth over the real needs of the people. Greetings from Cuba 🇨🇺

[Skinwalkerhunter-ew]

A couple of things:
1. 3:46 The Cuban population being reported as 11 million has been a thing since the year 2005 and its a lie. It didn't flat line into 2022 and then drop 18% in 2023. It has been been steadily decreasing since much much longer. Not only by all the reasons mentioned in this video but also by the conscious choice that so many young people, refuse to get pregnant and start a family until they emigrate out of Cuba.
2. The embargo is to be blamed for nothing. Cuba is not in bad shape because of the embargo. Cuba can trade with the entire world. Cuba is in bad shape due to the negligence of the government. Its not that they are incompetent, get that idea out of your head, its that they don't care, plain and simple. The government has been for a long time being using the strategy of saying "Oh poor us Cuba, we are being bullied by the big mean capitalist beast, woe us", to lure other countries to invest in them and cut them slack in trades. They sign a contract stating that they will pay so much from X countries product, they will receive that product but when it comes time to pay they don't pay. All they do is take, take, take and never produce and give anything of value. The government is a leech!!! Composed of people who live like kings (that is where the money goes) while the rest of Cuba live (and ARE LETS BE CLEAR!!) like slaves.
Also when the government receives humanitarian aide donations they don't give it to the people, they SELL IT to the people at crazy high prices.
3. Cuba's high education and good healthcare are myths. Once upon a time, this was true. Cuba had wonderful education (in that the academic side was very good, it was still and ideological indoctrination factory) and good healthcare but it has been over 10 years since that stopped being true. Go to a hospital in Cuba your hospital will be literarily falling apart and you will be lucky to find any medicine! If you want surgery in Cuba, YOU AS THE PATIENT need to go and buy in the black market the surgical needle, the sewing thread, the anesthesia and anything else your surgeon might need to save your life. Once your surgery has been performed anything that was left over by chance, the surgeon will stay with it, so that maybe he can use it to save the life of the poor soul who can not afford to do that. ALSO good healthcare exist in Cuba but you have to be a high ranking government worker to have access to it. There are hospitals that have amazing technology and look just like any hospital in the US but they are not available to the lay Cuban only to tourists and high ranking officers. As far the education goes its still a indoctrination factory but without the academic side. Its completely collapsed.

[yanpavon]

As a cuban, if you think cubas problem is anybodys fault but cuba please do not comment, you have clearly never lived in a dictatorship, thank you have a great weekend

[teachergame]

I learned more from the comments than I did from the video.

[vuho]

Actually the French explorer said when he came across Angkor Wat - "Nice place, but it has absolutely nothing to do with Cuba."

[luislaplume]

Not to mention also that there are now 5 different epidemics in Cuba and shortages of even bandaids.

[mjramirez]

''What happened here...?'' Communism happened

[KarlMarx]

Nobody of my cuban wifes family is still living in Cuba. And nobody means nobody. All familymembers and friends have left the country because of the repression of that dictatoric goverment and the bad conditions. It's impossible to live in cuba. And that's sad because It's a beautiful country with very kind and lovely people.

[IesusRex-]

Just like Soviet Russia, 60 plus years of mismanaged centralized socialist economy is what has caused the total collapse of Cuba's economy. The "embargo" has nothing to do with it. It has never been fully enforced to begin with and besides, Cuba still free to trade with many other countries and in fact it does trade with Panama, Nicaragua, Honduras, Canada, Spain, France, Vietnam, China, North Korea, Mexico, Venezuela, Russia, Italy, Brazil, among others. Another problem is, the Cuban government doesn't pay its creditors, even after some of them, like Russia for example, have forgiven them many millions of dollars in past obligations, renegotiated the remaining portion under better terms and extended new credits to the failing nation. Same situation with the Paris Club.

[marlonhernandez]

Their hasn't been any production in Cuba since 1959 👁️

[dock.capital]

That's nuts that you created this video 4 weeks ago. And now the entire island has been in black out for the past 4 days. Cuba has no future.

[sifridbassoon]

I don't understand why it's the responsibility of the US to make sure that Cuba is successful. Our policy is an embargo not a blockade. Other countries can and do trade with Cuba. Undoubtedly the embargo hurts the economy and that hurts the everyday Cubans. But I don't remember anyone suggesting that we (and other countries) should have ended the boycott of apartheid South Africa because it was hurting the everyday South Africans.

[RCSVirginia]

Whenever I travel, I love to explore grocery stores, small shops and department stores to see what is on offer. When I did that in La Republica Dominicana, one thing quickly became evident. Cuban cigars and rum, made in factories constructed before the communists seized power in Cuba, were widely available. Like most countries, the DR does not embargo Cuban goods. However, Cuba does not make anything else that anyone would want to buy. Machinery to make goods could be purchased from nations all over the world, but the communist party elites instead use their resources for luxury goods for themselves, sort of like Zimbabwe with Gucci Grace and Venezuela with Maduro. So, it's not the embargo: It's the communist system that has wrecked Cuba.

[davef.]

No opportunity, or hope, no food, no electricity, no thriving commerce, no nuthin'. No wonder everyone wants to leave, and no one forced to remain there wants to raise children in that life of misery. Who could blame them?

[jpkool]

My memories of Havana include seeing 2 new Audi A8 autos with official plates parked in the main square of the capital building and a poor old lady nearby sobbing as no one would buy her worthless goods.

[alejandroavila]

The Communist Party is respoinsible for Cuba's crisis, not the embargo.
Mass migration will continue for as long as the dictatorship remains in power, but not at the current rate since not everyone has the means to flee the island by plane.
It will be up to those who cannot escape to decide how much more are they willing to resist so that a very small minority can stay in power.

[cleanwillie]

Blaming the US for Cuba's woes is BS. Virtually every other nation in the world freely trades with Cuba if they so desire. The problem is a combination of an inefficient Communism-based "planned" economy (vs a free market economy) and the fact that Cuba's resources are pretty limited to begin with.

[miamijules]

I can tell you all this…. there may be no one left in 10 years but the very instant that government topples and US capital is allowed to flow in, I’ll be there in Havana ready to make my fortune. Cuba is uniquely placed amongst 2nd and 3rd world countries in that the entire island, every single part of it, must and will be rebuilt again. Havana will be more prosperous than Las Vegas and Miami combined one day - mark my words - for it is at the crossroads of Latin America and will revert back to the playground of the Americas. From construction to telecommunications, payment systems, infrastructure, transportation…. sky is the limit boys & girls. You heard it here first.

[RicardoMartinez-ohsq]

I visited The Havana just before Coronavirus. Seeing all these vintage cars circulating at a rate of dozens per minute was surreal, it felt as in a Hollywood movie.

[craiglongan]

People vote with their feet. They leave places where life sucks and flock to places where life is better. What surprises me is the unwillingness of the leaders of the Cuban government to admit that what they have been doing is not working, and that reforms are needed.