Cuba’s communist regime is running out of funds and resources to maintain a modern, functioning society
Cuba’s communist regime is running out of funds and resources to maintain a modern, functioning society due to a series of disastrous policy decisions: – Mass Emigration Decades of economic and political repression culminated in mass protests all across the island on July 11, 2021. In order to decrease pressure on itself, the Cuban regime decided to make a deal with the Nicaraguan government to allow dissatisfied Cubans to travel to Nicaragua without a visa. This has led to an exodus of over 1,000,000 Cubans (10% of the population) since 2021, according to the regime’s own statistics. The vast majority arrive in Nicaragua then head to the US. The mass emigration of Cubans from the island, which has led to an acute shortage of workers in critical industries, will only continue to get worse: as more Cubans emigrate, the country will have fewer workers to maintain basic infrastructure and public services, leading to more mass emigration, leading to worsening infrastructure and public services, and so on. It is a vicious cycle of escalating socio-economic collapse. – Changing cultural attitudes and disastrous economic policies Cultural attitudes are changing rapidly in Cuba due to increasing internet access (the regime legalized the internet in 2015), globalization and the regime’s disastrous decision to partialize privatize parts of the economy while maintaining strict control of the most critical sectors necessary to maintain the country’s infrastructure and public services. This has led to salaries in the private sector being multiple times higher than salaries in state-controlled sectors, which means people are leaving their government jobs like teachers, doctors, scientists and engineers to become street vendors, barbers, taxi drivers, tour guides, etc. As a result, Cuba’s socio-economic problems are accumulating exponentially: Waste management is already almost non-existent, with heaps of garbage accumulating in many areas in cities and towns around the island, and as this problem gets worse, it will lead to an increase in infectious diseases, which will strain the already collapsing healthcare system. It will be a humanitarian catastrophe. Electrical power plants are decades old, and the regime has no money or resources to fix them. As electrical infrastructure collapses, the daily blackouts all across the island will get much worse, affecting every aspect of modern life. Roads and bridges across the country will crumble even further, which will isolate communities across the island and make the transportation of goods and access to services even worse. The thousands of dilapidated buildings from the early 20th century across the island that have not received maintenance for decades will start collapsing at a faster rate, leading to deaths and displacement of thousands of people. The possible collapse of the Venezuelan regime will lead to an end in oil subsidies, which will lead to a shortage of fuel across the island, affecting every aspect of the economy. Poverty will become worse, and inequality will continue to rise as the island’s upper class will not be as affected by the ongoing collapse due to remittances received from the Cuban diaspora and imports of luxury goods from abroad, leading to a rise increased desperation among the poor and therefore a rise crime and possibly the formation of gangs. The only thing that can save Cuba is the end of the regime and a billion-dollar reconstruction effort from the 3 million-strong Cuban diaspora and the international community. submitted by /u/Intricate1779 [link] [comments]
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