Facing severe shortages, Cubans team up on WhatsApp to swap and shop

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  1. Space_Time

    Space_Time Well-Known Member

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    It's always amazing how people cope in difficult situations. Are these shortages the result of inherent problems with socialism? Or are they the result of the coronavirus and/or
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    They are the result of authoritarian closing of businesses.
     
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    They are just as much the result of the American trade embargo.
     
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    What trade embargo is that? Cuba? Iran?
     

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