"Guy is alright". Man, the matter is much more complex than you think. You can't summarize him with these words lol. You didn't even know him before.
US started blocking Cuba in the Eisenhower, actually. The former Baptista dictator was backed by the States, but the subsequent ruler was a...
Actually, Brazil managed to get many ppl out of poverty with the Lula government, and this neo-liberalism agenda the current government is pushing isn't friendly at all to poor ppl and minorities.
I haven't ignored your answer at all. US blocked Cuba because it wasn't within their "parameters...
Like I said, I'll watch eventually. I'm just not in the mood for Ben Shapiro now. If you wish, I can address you some good videos that gives a different perspective on communism, too.
In Brazil, another 19 million are in an even more delicate food situation. We have almost 130 million people suffering from hunger, more than half of our population, proportionately larger than Cuba and ten times more than Cuba
Most studies acnoweldge the blockades Cuba suffers from the USA as meaning their shortages in certain field. Yet the famine problem only aggravated due to covid, with the lack of tourism profit.
Cuba is having hardships because of the US' blockades. To deny that is being disingenuous. I've been to Cuba. I can't know everything there, but there is no children starving, and while there's some hardships (mainly associated to lack of hygiene), they get by way better than many poor...
I've already seen Ben Shapiro. He's a sophist. Talks fast on purpose so the opponent doesn't have time to process what he's saying and look like he's on top. He isn't in the debate to learn... he's there to make "ppl look bad". And his arguments are nothing special.
These other poor aforementioned countries were colonized (and not colonizers) and running a capitalist system like that will undoubtedly lead to way more inequality.
You mentioned the scandinava countries, but what about Peru? What about Bolivia? Those are capitalist countries as well and many label them as "shit holes". The difference is that those Scandinavia countries were mainly colonizers, and had room to structure themselves