Loading ...“The main point I was trying to make was, if the Cuban people are hurting, its because the country has been discriminated against financially since they won independence in the 1950s”
I think you are wrong here and this is a misconception. Cuba has absorbed billions from it’s socialist pals and it is still a shithole country that people are trying to escape.
Potemkin Village is not a person. it is a concept … it means a fake facade. A prosperous front but the reality is quite different.
“In politics and economics, a Potemkin village is any construction (literal or figurative) whose sole purpose is to provide an external façade to a country which is faring poorly, making people believe that the country is faring better. The term comes from stories of a fake portable village built solely to impress Empress Catherine II by her former lover Grigory Potemkin, during her journey to Crimea in 1787. While modern historians agree that accounts of this portable village are exaggerated, the original story was that Potemkin erected phony portable settlements along the banks of the Dnieper River in order to impress the Russian Empress; the structures would be disassembled after she passed, and re-assembled farther along her route to be viewed again as if another example”