• LemmyBruceLeeMarvin@lemmy.ml
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    1 month ago

    Soooooo… Cuba helped stop apartheid in south Africa so they could sell sugar to the Soviet union? I guess they send doctors to poor neighborhoods in south America so they can, uh, sell rum?

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      1 month ago

      Soooooo…. Cuba helped stop apartheid in south Africa so they could sell sugar to the Soviet union?

      Cuba assisted an authoritarian regime in Angola in destroying its opposition, including other leftists, because strengthening the hand of its bloc and maintaining positive relations with their overlord was key to its own survival, yes.

      I guess they send doctors to poor neighborhoods in south America so they can, uh, sell rum?

      … those doctors who are paid by the national governments of their host country at much higher rates than they receive in Cuba, but wherein the Cuban government seizes most of that pay for the government coffers?

      That’s what charity looks like to you? Hiring out your own professionals who are contractually restricted from seeking independent work, and then pocketing the vast majority of money they earned? You really are a regular capitalist, aren’t you? Rockefeller would be proud.