Forwarded from Anticapitalist Surrealism 🚩🦾🔻 (Francesco Tangredi)
At this point the Onion isn't even doing satire anymore
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If the cost of the Cuban Embargo (whose intent was to "decrease wages" and "bring about hunger, desperation...") were returned, every Cuban would get around $100k USD, or as much as 100 years of their disposable income at their minimum wage.
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Historical Documents - Office of the Historian
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And yet Cuba has some of the best medical outcomes in the world up there with rich countries like Norway, has sponsored eye surgeries for free Mr. Beast style for 4 million, and even had 9/11 responders get treatment for free there because they weren't covered in the US.