Celebrating Cuba’s Power Outage
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U.S. interventionists are undoubtedly uncorking their champagne bottles and celebrating the nationwide power outage that has hit the Cuban people during the past week. According to an article in the Wall Street Journal,
Millions of Cubans have been without electricity for days… The collapse of Cuba’s aging power grid has paralyzed an already-crippled economy, with rolling outages affecting everything from running water to the operation of banks, ATMs or debit-card terminals, sparking severe shortages of cash and halting distribution of basic goods and services such as drinking water, residents say. Millions of Cuban households are seeing their food spoil because of a lack of refrigeration, and people can’t use air conditioning, fans or electric stoves on the tropical island. Cooking gas is also scarce.
Of course, the responses of the Cuban government and U.S. interventionists are the standard ones to which we have become accustomed. Cuba’s communist regime is blaming the outage on the decades-old brutal U.S. economic embargo, while U.S. interventionists are saying that the embargo has nothing to do with it and it’s all because of Cuba’s socialist economic system.
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