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all_i_see@lemy.lol to World News@quokk.au · 1 month ago

Millions without electricity as Cuba's power grid collapses

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Millions without electricity as Cuba's power grid collapses

www.bbc.com

all_i_see@lemy.lol to World News@quokk.au · 1 month ago
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Cuba's chronic fuel shortages have been exacerbated by a US blockade on oil shipments to the island.
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  • artifex@piefed.zip
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    Cue China with a billion dollars of free solar panels and batteries.

    • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.world
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      I’m sure not cheering for China, but they really do have a huge opportunity to expand and grow right now thanks to our fascism bullshit.

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        You don’t have to cheer for China, but it’s never wrong to cheer for humans helping other humans.

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          Thoughful, salient point <3

    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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      Cuba already has 52 solar farms. But you cannot power a grid on solar without some other sources of electricity to buffer demand.

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    a failed government

    • Maeve@kbin.earth
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      Due to a terrorist country bullying other states to starve people and deny the world free medical care.

      • croquetaProdal@piefed.zip
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        you’re funny

        • blackn1ght@feddit.uk
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          They’re not wrong though are they.

          • croquetaProdal@piefed.zip
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            next time you go there tell me who have better equipment/resources, the police or a doctor, for a country with low crime

        • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.world
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          You certainly aren’t.

          • croquetaProdal@piefed.zip
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            certainly not ignorant as you about Cuba

            • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.world
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              yawn

              • croquetaProdal@piefed.zip
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                good thing cuba government will fall this year

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      Failed government that has survived 60 years of trade embargos… seems legit.

      • croquetaProdal@piefed.zip
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        you really believe is not a failed government? lol

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          Considering the situation. No more than the US who is vastly richer and still cant feed its people and experiences rolling blckouts.

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            can’t feed it’s people? experiences rolling blackouts? go outside and touch some grass

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              Perhaps you should take your own advice.

              https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/7-u-s-states-where-fear-of-energy-blackouts-has-become-widespread/ar-AA1QFGbp

              https://frac.org/news/usdafoodsecurityreportdec2025

              • croquetaProdal@piefed.zip
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                did you really read the article? 300 million, I mean the whole united states have rolling blackouts because an inclement weather like… any other country. Food security? have you really been to the United States? Food banks and homeless shelter are a thing there, people not only rely on SNAP you know. again, go outside and touch some grass, internet is not real life

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                  If your only argument for food security is that food banks and homless shelters (most which are charity operated) exist… im not really sure what I can argue against.

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      Do you actually know anything about Cuba outside of US propslop? You’re not unique for being duped by misinfo.

      • croquetaProdal@piefed.zip
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        cuban here and I still go there every year

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          I’d love to visit eventually, is it hard to travel there?

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            They have a huge travel industry. Canadians never stopped going.

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              define huge lol, they haven’t recovered since COVID

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            not at all

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          Leftist lemmings westsplaining Cuba to a Cuban.

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            exactly, they only repeat the government propaganda but never any of them have been there

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