I wanted to write more, a large body in this post explaining more about the whole situation; but quite frankly I'm just stunned.

I've grown up knowing and thinking about Cuba very little. I'm aware it exists, I've of course heard of Cuban Cigars. I've also heard the name Fidel Castro, but knew very very litte about him or his history. Kinda just vague notions that he was a 'bad guy', mostly perpetrated by US media. I just never really looked deeper; foreign politics/policy/history has always been - I don't want to say disinteresting, but low priority. I tend keep my mind on closer to home issues, like paying my own bills. Not something I'm exactly proud of, but that's the truth. If you don't make a point of looking for it; Cuba doesn't exactly show up in Canadas media very often (tbh I've heard more about it with the Trump admin bombing their boats, than any other time in my life).

I've learned more about Cuba in this video than I have my entire adult life. (I'm 30)

To learn the native Cubans were literally exterminated, replaced with African slaves, then the dictatorship that ruled over them was overthrown by those slaves to become a thriving population with a universal medical care and reasearch system that quite literally outpaces all of the rest of the world; is frankly incredible.

Now they're being suffocated and starved into submission, partly because America can't handle a shinning example of socialism proving it can work, right on Americas doorstep, and partly so America can have its plantations and slave population back...

I can't decide if I'm surprised, or if I'm just further reinforcing what I already knew; America is an evil like no other. I can't even pretend this is just Trump and his cronies influence, this begun long before he was even in politics.

I had to share this video. It's the least I can do.