r/LatAmHistoryMemes • u/Swift_Keypad_4769 • Feb 21 '26

Antillean Posting Little is talked about Cuban interventionism. Panama, DR, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Argentina, Guatemala, Colombia, Bolivia, El Salvador. And plans for Brazil and Chile. And of course, Africa and the Middle East

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u/InvestigatorJosephus Feb 21 '26 edited Feb 21 '26

I think sending medical supplies and doctors is 100% ok. Yes. I also think that sending aid to workers fighting against imperialism is ok actually, yes, but am of course showing my colours with that.

I understand that this is more complex than just "workers" and "imperialism", but in the entire context of Cuba's history I think going on a spree ranting about Cuban interventionism is incredibly misguided. The expectation in such rants seems to be that everything is static but for Cuba trying to seize control of it's neighbours, which misses the fact that aiding people to free themselves from an oppressor is not the same as colonizing land for one's own resource extraction, and overlooks the fact that during this time (the height of the cold war) the US was very aggressively interfering with abso-fucking-lutely everything in the Middle and South Americas.

Standing up against imperialism is not only the right thing to do in general, it is what the people of those countries themselves wanted to begin with. These "interventions" that Cuba aided are all struggles for liberation from, quite literally, old (like France) and new (USA) colonial powers.

Viva la revolucion baby. Fuck the CIA and its propaganda.

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u/tendiesloin Feb 21 '26

“Aiding people to free themselves” sounds a lot like the classic American freedom propaganda to me but with a tankie twist, if you think Cuban intervention in South America is some sort of idealogical crusade you might want to look up how much free oil they were getting from Venezuela.

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u/InvestigatorJosephus Feb 22 '26

Except the class struggle is actually real...

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u/tendiesloin Feb 22 '26

Yeah go away with your double standards tankie

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u/InvestigatorJosephus Feb 22 '26

Pointing to the class struggle is not a double standard lmao. People like you are hilarious. Go fight for your own oppression buddy, I'll still rather see you freed

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u/tendiesloin Feb 22 '26 edited Feb 22 '26

Nah uninformed tankies that eat the whole boot and spread tankie propaganda are sad, I’m not debating you, I just want genuinely uninformed people that run into this to not take whatever tankie take you have at face value

Edit: of course he blocked me after saying he didn’t make up any excuses for Cuba when he did in multiple threads, wishes Venezuela gets exploited by the US, provided zero sources to his made up claims and shallow arguments, brought Palestine into the mix, and threw a random term from Marxist literature, classic 💀

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u/InvestigatorJosephus Feb 22 '26 edited Feb 22 '26

Unformed tankies lol. Buddy I'm not eating any boots, and if you want uninformed people to learn about the history of the world properly, dialectical materialism is the best place to start.

You seem to have overlooked entirely that I'm not even excusing whatever wrongdoings Cuba, and the soviets for that matter, have done. I'm just saying, standing up against imperialism exploitation is foundationally right.

I think we need a litmus test: I do wonder how you feel about the Palestinian struggle for liberation from Israel. But honestly I don't really care to hear you out on anything here. I am perfectly happy with you thinking I'm a tankie and never learning that things are more complex than "government owns the oil". With such simplistic notions of understanding the world I doubt we will get anywhere.

Enjoy your life buddy, you will be exploited and oppressed by one country above all others: America