@JN_Castro_Tabs
We Filipinos learn a glimpse of Cuba in our grade school History class, because our country became a colony of Spain. The Cuban War of Independence 1895-1898 inspired the Philippine revolution against Spain. Hence, the design of flag our 🇵🇭 was also inspired by Cuba 🇨🇺. un grande abrazo hermanos desde las islas Filipinas.
@brianirwin5296
I have travelled to Cuba on a number of occasions for work. A Cuban once told me the joke, "What do you call a Cuban orchestra when they return from a foreign tour? A quartet."
@Ari-ez1vj
My father was a doctor in Cuba, he escaped on a boat and was caught by the coast guard about halfway to Florida. They brought them back to Guantanamo bay where a lot of them returned to their lives. However my father got the opportunity to work as a doctor in Guantanamo for a few months. They helped him become a resident of the United States, secured him the ability to come to the nation legally, and provided him with a healthy wage. In Miami, my father was homeless; for a while sleeping in churches whenever he could and working wherever would accept him. Until a friendly man named Victor found him one day on a Sunday morning and gave him a place to stay. He was also a Cuban migrant but one that came here very long ago, he was quite good at English. Victor provided my father with a stable home and helped him get enrolled in school to get recertified as a doctor. Victor passed away about 10 years ago, but my family will never forget the kind man that he was. Today you can find hundreds of people just like my father, most of them work very traditional jobs here in America. I worked at my father's office and there was an employee who specialized in neurosurgery, yet she works as an office technician now. The situation in Cuba is very interesting, because though their economy is a shadow of it's former self their education has managed to stay relatively top-notch. They have a lot of very skilled workers in their market who work for an extremely unreasonable price.
@Curlyblonde
An excellent book describing life pre and post revolution Cuba written by a Cuban exile is " Waiting for Snow in Havana". Makes you understand everything you see and the Cuban mentality when you visit Cuba.
@realazeng
I visited Cuba in summer of 2022. Beautiful country with amazing hospitable people but you could just tell there was a significant degree of desperation going on. At times i felt bad being a tourist vacationing while the locals were struggling to get by. Lots of shortages everywhere
@kryts27
Apparently Cuba's private motorized transport is still made up of 1950s and 1960s cars made in the US. While this is a testimony of the mechanical skiils of the Cuban mechanics in keeping these antique cars running, this apparently iconic nature of Cuban streets is a real indicator of the isolation of Cuba's island economy for 60 years.
@ManoloRalda
The video that you used at 2:11 minutes of the cobblestone streets with modern cars and a bus in the background is not from Cuba but from Antigua, Guatemala as can clearly be seen by the red banner in the upper left on the screen.
@kuba2ve
As a Cuban I can tell you this is a pretty accurate summary.
@pelagiuslobo5474
You criminally forget the 1933 Revolution, Batista's first dictatorship then elected presidency, and the Autentico's dismal fall.
@EugeneDelRiego
As a Cuban immigrant now living in the US I truly enjoyed this video. It would be awesome to see a more in depth documentary on this topic.
@waynelust9431
Cuba went into rapid decline once the Soviet Union collapsed and no longer provided financial support. Now 2 years of Covid restrictions has decimated their one main source of foreign currency, tourism. Power outages for most of the day and soaring inflation, has the population starving.
@rangelfamily4047
Around 2:14 you show video of Guatemala saying its Cuba...
@ar1-23x6
If Cuba were left to thrive on it own then Miami would definitely not have been anywhere near as big as it is today.
@judithcampbell1705
Thank you 💛 for this. I grew up with a girl from Cuba. Her parents brought her to Miami Beach Florida and they escaped from Cuba approximately in 1955-1960. I loved them. Cookie was my best friend. Learned some Spanish too. Cubans are a wonderful people. Beautiful country and culture.
@MN-pu6qx
This is an outstanding video. The actions over many years of numerous politicians from Cuba, Russia and USA have been corrupt and deplorable. Of course, the bull-headed arrogance of those politicians would prevent an ounce of introspection.
@eduardo2788
You missed 19 years of democracy 1933-1952, 26 years of economic prosperity 1933-1959, the political repression and the different exodus after 1959.
@michaelimbesi2314
The explosion of the Maine wasn’t a false flag operation. The ship most likely suffered a magazine explosion, something that was not-unheard of in the era. The chemistry of propellants in that era was not fully understood and some of them were not completely stable in the long term, especially when exposed to long periods of high temperature.
@realestateinfonet9041
Superb documentary! Thank you very much for making it & sharing it with us!
@AwokenEntertainment
I visited Cuba back in 2015, and so many locals were literally tearing up after learning I was visiting from America.. the hope in their expressions and voices for a rekindling in our government's relationship was one of the strongest emotions I've ever expirenced
@CasualScholar