{"id":172404,"date":"2025-08-04T08:05:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T12:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=172404"},"modified":"2025-08-03T19:36:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T23:36:25","slug":"think-socialism-is-great-this-cuban-couple-knows-otherwise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=172404","title":{"rendered":"Think socialism is great? These Cubans know otherwise"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Voted-to-raise-taxes-on-property-owners-rent-went-up-also\"<\/a><\/p>\n

A common question asked on the site and elsewhere: if socialism\/communism is so great, why don’t those who advocate for it migrate to communist countries? Marxist movers and shakers promise a better outcome under communism but rarely deliver. One of communism’s consequences involves most of those who fought to “take down the system” ending up in a worse situation. Cuba is just one of those examples.<\/p>\n

From Fox News:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

“In Cuba, the medium salary is around $40 a month, so you have to choose [very carefully] what you’re going to buy,” she said.<\/p>\n

“[Those who] get paid in Cuban pesos don’t have access [to those stores and instead] have to go to a bodega, which is very limited with what you can get.”<\/p>\n

She said that on WhatsApp and other messaging groups, Cubans share with each other the foods that are available — from milk to butter — at any given time.<\/p>\n

“It’s not like in the United States, where you never have to think about if there’s going to be butter in the grocery stores or not,” she said.<\/p>\n

Marissa Diaz said the only time she’s experienced something similar in the United States was during the COVID pandemic.<\/p>\n

“That’s what it’s like being in Cuba, but all the time,” she said.<\/p>\n

Yoel Diaz described the ability to go to a grocery store as a privilege.<\/p>\n

The same goes for living here and being able to put food on the table, he said.<\/p>\n

“[You] can have whatever brand of food you want, whatever meal. You can go [down] the street [and buy] whatever coffee you want,” he said.<\/p>\n

“We don’t have that [in Cuba],” he added. “My mom is dying for [a] coffee. She knows [what a privilege it is].”<\/p>\n

The couple couldn’t help sharing thoughts about New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, a self-declared Democratic socialist who’s proposed a pilot program of government-owned grocery stores in a bid to lower costs and reduce food insecurity in underserved areas.<\/p>\n

“We have seen time and time again that government is inefficient in distributing things,” Marissa Diaz said. She said it failed in Cuba and is “not sure why he thinks New York City is going to be different.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Additional Reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n

DiMella, A. J. (2025, July 30). Cuban man marvels at Costco food choices and American abundance. Fox News<\/em>. Link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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