What's driving the mass exodus of Cubans to the US - ABC News

[TexasTowelie]

ABC News’ Victor Oquendo reports on the record number of Cubans fleeing by land and sea to the U.S., and how the Coast Guard is responding to the latest influx of migrants.

[3Hotdogs]

1. End the embargo.

[roody]

2. Yes, end the embargo.

[Chainfire]

3. There are so many absurdities about our relationship with Cuba.

We have been punishing them for 60 years; it is time to undo the mistakes of the past.

[comradebillyboy]

4. Maybe people don't like living in an authoritarian police state.

Yes US policy towards Cuba is counterproductive but we didn't make them a repressive one party dictatorship that jails and kills its critics.

[sinkingfeeling]

5. No, we're just starvng them.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2022/cuba-economy-milk-shortage/

Today, as Cuba careens through its worst economic crisis in 30 years, milk is one of the most potent symbols of the country’s precarious state. Cubans have been hit by mass shortages of dairy and other basic goods, reflecting a confluence of setbacks: The coronavirus pandemic crippled the vital tourism industry. Then-President Donald Trump squeezed the island with extra sanctions, and President Biden held off on reversing them. Socialist ally Venezuela reduced aid and investment.

The result: A nation that imports 70 percent of its food has run desperately short of the cash to buy it.

[comradebillyboy]

6. Not every unfortunate situation in the world is caused by the US.

Authoritarian socialism simply isn't a good economic model.

Of course Cuba's problems are too extensive and complex to be adequately addressed in a forum like DU but desperately clinging to their old failed Soviet economic and political system is not a productive path forward.

[sinkingfeeling]

7. But clinging to a 60 year-old failed US foreign policy is?

They're an island and an embargo is a pretty big cause of lack of food.

This problem is a direct result of the US.

[comradebillyboy]

8. And they bear no responsibility at all? They are incapable or

unwilling to move away of a failed political and economic system because it might dilute the power and authority of the Cuban Communist Party. Even if the US lifted its economic sanctions Cuba will still be an economic basket case mired in poverty.

[sinkingfeeling]

9. Kind of like the situation here....