MaoTheLawn [any, any]

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Cake day: August 4th, 2020

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  • That’s all true and you can find politicians saying the intentions are starving the people into causing an uprising in Venezuela (not just Cuba or Iran) - but it’s not all you need to know - the running of PVDSA has a very complex history and there were certainly elements of economic mismanagement in Maduro’s time as well as Chavez. If however countries were open to helping Venezuela with oil refining and subsidy strategy rather than destroying it to get control of their oil, there would be a different outcome.




















  • There’s very few times I’ve been moved to tears by something on a screen, but at the end of Michael Moore’s documentary about privatised healthcare - Sicko - he takes some suffering Americans to Cuba to receive treatment. One is a 9/11 first responder who can’t pay for his respiratory medication (caused by 9/11). They get treated, and get some scans, and get it all for free.

    Then they have to get back on the boat and return to America.

    And you can see them looking back at Cuba as it gets smaller and smaller. And I started thinking about how such a beautiful thing has been under siege since it’s existence. And a tear rolled down my cheek.