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Originally Posted by Bobblehead
I believe a lot of this is due to the American embargo and collapse of the USSR. USSR used to help ship a lot of goods to Cuba, but when it collapsed all those shipments stopped.
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It has everything to do with the trade embargo. But the part of the trade embargo that most people don't seem to know about is one that hurts them a lot too. I thought the trade embargo would just limit American ships from trading with Cuba. But it's any ship that has America on it's planned path of travel. Pretty much every ship that travels to the Caribbean area stops in Miami. And if a ship has Cuba on it's schedule it is not allowed to stop in the US. And since everyone trades or stops in the US, it really limits the trading with Cuba. The US is the largest cause of Cuba's problems, but of course it could be argued that Cuba did it to itself.
Anyways, that was a little off topic. Just thought I would give that little tidbit if anyone was interested.