Some Cubans say everyday life on the Caribbean island has reached a breaking point amid a fuel shortage brought about by the U.S. squeezing the country’s oil supply. Meanwhile, Canadian airlines suspended service to the island and are ferrying tourists back home.
“For me, any change for us will be better than what we are living through, because what we are experiencing is not humane,” Isben Peralta told CBC News in a phone interview during a blackout.
“Some of us who have a little business have a bit to eat, but many, many, many people do not have it. It’s very, very bad.”
Peralta lives in Ciego De Avila, in central Cuba, where he operates a small pizzeria out of his home. He says he’s lucky — he still gets power a few hours per day, but says that’s only because he lives near a location where fuel is delivered.
Two things can be bad at once. The US can be an imperialist POS and Iran can be a fundamentalist, autocratic theocracy.
The people in Iran have every reason and right to resist and revolt, just as we should be doing here.
none of that gives the us any rights to go in and meddle, drop bombs and generally fuck with their lives worse than the iranian government ever could.