acargitz@lemmy.ca to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoIn Cuba, people go without food and power as U.S. chokes oil supply and tourists fleewww.cbc.caexternal-linkmessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up1114arrow-down13 cross-posted to: world@lemmy.world
arrow-up1111arrow-down1external-linkIn Cuba, people go without food and power as U.S. chokes oil supply and tourists fleewww.cbc.caacargitz@lemmy.ca to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square11fedilink cross-posted to: world@lemmy.world
minus-squareacargitz@lemmy.caOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up38arrow-down3·1 month agoThis is absolutely criminal. The world should stand up to the gangsters in Washington and run the illegal US embargo to deliver aid to Cuba.
minus-squareRandom_Character_A@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 month agoWell, they have funded a slow genocide for decades. I don’t think they give a shit.
minus-squareMihies@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·1 month agoAnd it’s by far not the first such case, fcuk this.
minus-squareMihies@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down3·1 month agoHow it should go ^^, how it is going: everybody is silent, nobody dares to object the Orange, all countries are coward, selfish and shortsighted. Even Chine just whines a bit. #wcgw
minus-squareCannonFodder@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down2·1 month agoChina should send a bunch of its surplus solar panels. Cuba could go oil free and be strong.
minus-squareSaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-21 month agoTry flying a jet with solar panels. Cuba has had solar for years. 50 farms completed in 2025. https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/cuba-track-install-50-solar-parks-this-year-ministry-says-2025-03-20
minus-squareMihies@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoThat’s not realistic. Not at present (energy storage is missing) and it takes time. It’d help though.
minus-squaredmtalon@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month agoRight, power 10h a day is better than power 0h a day
minus-squareMihies@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoSure, but even that would take time at that scale. But you are right, everything helps. I wonder, though, would the Orange block Chinese help…
This is absolutely criminal. The world should stand up to the gangsters in Washington and run the illegal US embargo to deliver aid to Cuba.
Well, they have funded a slow genocide for decades. I don’t think they give a shit.
And it’s by far not the first such case, fcuk this.
How it should go ^^, how it is going: everybody is silent, nobody dares to object the Orange, all countries are coward, selfish and shortsighted. Even Chine just whines a bit. #wcgw
China should send a bunch of its surplus solar panels. Cuba could go oil free and be strong.
Try flying a jet with solar panels.
Cuba has had solar for years. 50 farms completed in 2025.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/cuba-track-install-50-solar-parks-this-year-ministry-says-2025-03-20
That’s not realistic. Not at present (energy storage is missing) and it takes time. It’d help though.
Right, power 10h a day is better than power 0h a day
Sure, but even that would take time at that scale. But you are right, everything helps. I wonder, though, would the Orange block Chinese help…