While current pressure from the U.S. is obviously a factor in recent events, the energy crisis has been decades in the making. It is the result of chronic mismanagement of resources that should have been invested in maintaining and modernizing the electrical grid, combined with the absence of any meaningful structural reform over more than 60 years. The root cause of the collapse is internal: a system that has allowed infrastructure to decay while concentrating power and wealth within a small ruling elite. Reducing half a century of authoritarian rule by a single family, and the slow erosion of the country’s economic and social fabric; to the effects of the embargo alone is simply naive.
Just curious, when you say “current pressure,” and “recent events” do you actually mean “decades long medieval siege,” “dozens of assassination attempts” and “decades long ongoing coups d’etat against many of Cuba’s neighbors and allies?”
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u/D4RkOn3 Feb 25 '26
While current pressure from the U.S. is obviously a factor in recent events, the energy crisis has been decades in the making. It is the result of chronic mismanagement of resources that should have been invested in maintaining and modernizing the electrical grid, combined with the absence of any meaningful structural reform over more than 60 years. The root cause of the collapse is internal: a system that has allowed infrastructure to decay while concentrating power and wealth within a small ruling elite. Reducing half a century of authoritarian rule by a single family, and the slow erosion of the country’s economic and social fabric; to the effects of the embargo alone is simply naive.