Cuba is so mysterious, what even happens there?
Communism, blackouts, manipulated statistics, shortages of several basic stuffs, sex tourism, somehow also one of the bedrocks of Latin American music.
Nothing happens there. Don't worry about it.
>>223966986>>223967130why do the non-racemixed latinx always make other latinx and apparently even iberians seethe?
>>223967130>>223967246shithole
>>223967406Cuba has a higher standard of living than USia.
>>223967231>>223967427sennnnioooooorrrrr
They are very resourceful people:>They are swapping their gas-guzzling 1950s American cars for electric motorcycles and rickshaws from China; importing hefty lithium batteries to keep televisions and fans running through blackouts; jury-rigging generators to run on more accessible natural gas; and installing solar panels on rooftops and even vehicles.>The result is that Cuba has lasted far longer without fuel shipments than the Trump administration expected.>After hearing about the oil blockade, Mr. Palmero learned on YouTube how to distill junk plastic into homemade gasoline and diesel. He has since built a tiny, makeshift refinery in his backyard to power his motorcycle and light his stove.>“We look for solutions,” he said. “The economic restrictions are slowly killing us, but we’re pulling through with all our might, managing to get by until we see what happens next.”>In Havana and beyond, the crisis’s effects were clear.>We met families walking two hours for water because government pumps had run out of diesel. Women, lacking gas, cooked with firewood on the street. Powerless refrigerators became cabinets. Hitchhikers littered roadsides after the city halted public busing. And dozens of people told us they were simply exhausted after so many sleepless nights in the sweltering heat without fans or air-conditioning.>Vehicles were on the road — despite black-market gasoline reaching $30 a gallon — because many were electric. Restaurants were open for the few who could afford them, powered by rumbling generators out back. Hospitals, government buildings and the airport had power because they were on protected parts of the grid. Medical clinics, nursing homes and bank branches ran off solar panels donated by China.>Cell service was sometimes working. Televisions showing the World Cup were not hard to find. And even roadside stands were serving cold beer from refrigerators powered by the sun.
>>223967466>>223967246>>223967406chicano mestizos seething
>>223967495>While not everyone can afford alternative power sources, their energy has trickled down. Electric rickshaws ferry people to work. Solar panels have kept stores open. And people charge their phones and lanterns off their neighbor’s battery or the generator at work.>In one neighborhood, we saw one of the few families with a generator set up a television in the street so children could watch cartoons.>“We have not reached the point of having a humanitarian crisis precisely because of the strength of our society,” Mr. Fernández de Cossío, Cuba’s deputy foreign minister, said in Havana’s Fidel Castro museum, where the lights were on but the air-conditioning had failed. “The intimate expectation in political circles in the United States was that Cuba could not survive beyond April. And here we are.”>As a result, Cuba has been powering its electric grid solely with domestic oil and gas and a growing network of solar parks sponsored by China. Together, they are enough to support roughly half of Cuban demand, according to Jorge Piñón, who studies Cuban energy at the University of Texas.>To preserve that supply, the government strategically cuts power at certain times and in certain places. It also runs plants at lower capacity to keep them from failing; extracts more natural gas; and even tries to refine sludgy oil residues from the bottom of years-old tanks.>Mr. Piñón said he and other analysts underestimated the Cuban government’s resourcefulness when they forecast it would exhaust its fuel stocks by March. >Exhausted Cubans told us they were angry at both Havana and Washington. Yet no one said they planned to take to the streets. Aside from banging pots and pans, the Cuban people have hardly staged protests.
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>>223967519>On the road west, we met Abel Menéndez on a roof blanketed in panels. He has been selling and installing solar kits for five years, he said, but now both supply and demand have skyrocketed. At the same time, costs have dropped, to about $400 a panel from $500 a year earlier. “People are constantly calling,” he said.>We also came across a new field of panels — one of the government’s 54 solar parks, most inaugurated since 2025 and all built with China’s help.>Few countries are adopting solar faster than Cuba. Solar energy can now meet roughly 10 percent of Cuba’s electricity needs, the government says, up from 3 percent at the start of 2025. Cuban officials aim to depend fully on renewable energy by 2050.>For now, solar provides a boost, but it hardly solves Cuba’s problem. The island lacks the massive batteries needed to store solar power. That means it can provide roughly 20 percent of Cuba’s electricity at midday, but virtually none after the sun sets, during peak demand.>Perhaps Cuba’s hottest product of the moment are portable lithium batteries that can be charged in a few hours and then temporarily power televisions, fans or even refrigerators.>The most popular model costs about $750 in Cuba, sold on social media by Cubans who have imported them from China.>Other Cubans are electrifying their homes with the gas piped in for cooking and heating water. About 280,000 residences in Havana have such gas lines, and many are connecting them to modified generators designed to run on liquid fuel. Cuba produces the gas domestically, so it is one of the few energy sources not affected by the blockade.>The gas is also cheap, especially for the 120,000 households that pay a flat rate regardless of use. One man said he had been running a generator off gas almost nonstop, and yet was still billed the same 50 pesos, or eight cents, for the month.
>>223967130>somehow also one of the bedrocks of Latin American music.Isnt that Puerto Rico?
>>223966986I've seen a few documentaries by Spanish-speaking YouTubers that go there and record how is life there, interviewing people and all.It's the typical poor, bureaucratic nightmare communist state in which nothing really works, infrastructure is crumbling, and the population is dirt poor, always going hungry, but miraculously never fully starving.They do have the resources to have decent standards of living but their retarded anti-private-property economic ideology prevents them from any productive ventures that would produce much needed goods & services.People basically work for free, so there's no incentive to be especially productive, and those that have jobs slack off as much as they can. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJR3YbsJ5oU
>>223967495>>223967519>>223967543Mexico would be as poor as Peru if you didn’t border the US
They still haven’t recovered from getting melted by the goybeam
>>223967867there must be a good side of living there.
