Cuba SUCKS! (Why You Should NEVER Travel There) 🇨🇺

Cuba SUCKS! (Why You Should NEVER Travel There) 🇨🇺

cuba is living in unprecedented times if you can imagine just imagine the last 48 hours I’ve been here in Cien Fueos there’s been light for 2 hours now a normal Cuban would just say lui an optimistic Cuban would say “Well look it we have lots of light sunlight.” And a pessimistic Cuban would say Kongaloo i didn’t expect to be in this city but it has an interesting history a history linked to Russia and Venezuela let’s learn some history and see some funny things let’s [Music] see they don’t overhaze okay you saw Ignasio back there just a man with this bottle of rum next to the sea i asked if he wanted money he said “Nope.” Now some people here in Cuba actually the most of most of the people will not accept money they’re very they’re very good people and then you’ll find people who ask you for money they’re not working or anything because they have vices cuz life here is is tough and then you’ll find people working old young really old it’s a fascinating place and look at in the bario you can get beer cheaper than anywhere else look at cervesa 190 wow i’ve been paying 220 on the street and 350 which is like a dollar in the restaurant sometimes more yikes behind me is a piece of Soviet and Venezuelan and Cuban history now the Soviets built this oil refinery or what it was and of course when the union collapsed this fell into disrepair before 2005 ugo Chavez and Fidel Castro put an agreement to put it back together and this was a hub for oil petroleum in fact Ugo Chavez he donated materials to help construct an entire bario of houses there derived from prochemicals anyways there’s still some oil production happening here but of course Pedvesa who I have friends who work for that company they had to flee to Spain they lost their jobs everyone lost their jobs in Venezuela well we have a remnant of that we can see the stacks there a couple ships a little port and my god the gas here is very short which is why ultimately I’m in Sien Fueos because the taxi couldn’t bring me any further and it’s so hard to get from one city to another it’s a freaking adventure in itself and it’s actually really expensive they don’t like accepting pesos they want dollars because the exchange rate is changing on a daily basis uh we are really like I said living in unprecedented times perhaps the worst time in Cuban history that’s saying something maybe maybe it was a little bit worse during the Independence War when there were concentration camps but I digress pescares thank you bye-bye bye there you go yankee [Music] those two guys are listening to baseball on the radio my god check this out we have a mango tree wow maybe give these a month there’ll be big juicy mangoes [Music] you guys I’ve heard people say that Cuba isn’t a third world country it’s a fifth world country uh that’s what Cubans themselves have told me seal is load [Music] mhm [Music] hey This has to be easily top five worst countries for elderly people every single house you pass there’s an older person sitting outside just basically sitting there staring into the open it’s uh it’s it’s tough to see and the further east we go the worse it gets that’s what they told me and that’s what we’re seeing by the way this city is called La Pa delsur it’s known for being a clean city but this whole park here this is a locomotive park an old train it’s full of trash ante parkito no jesus hola what is mñana okay okay perfecto look it it’s an abandoned hospital for her mother’s Palasio de laid it’s actually a beautiful building man this country is something else we made it to the town center or the city center and I got to tell you it’s got some major potential now when Obama was president he opened up relations here if you guys remember people here were extremely optimistic they said cruise ships were coming in on a daily basis they said they loved the American tourists life here was finally looking up then Trump came into office and that sort of stuff seized more or less but what really hit it hard was co absolutely decimated this country but all these cities big and small have so much potential whether it’s Sien Fuego Santi Spiritus Bayama Santiago Olin uh Kamaguay all of these cities have such massive potential and truthfully historically speaking culturally speaking I think it’s the best place the most authentic place in all of Latin America [Music] [Applause] two port in Bolivia no no no woman no no no no woman see No [Laughter] [Music] I see what’s up Hey guys this is a staterun store we have some rum bottles for example that’s 7 MLC the equivalent of $1 US but in the government credit card MLC it’s different than the cash I’ve been using some dressing $375 this is like a store that’s specialized in remittances so people from outside send money to that cart and then they buy it here like we’ve seen all the products we have some instant potatoes here for 240 uh cookies for 215 interesting system here in Kuba all right you guys ugo Chavez when he used to visit Fidel Castro and when they inaugurated the oil refinery this is where Ugo Chavez stayed wow he was very close to the United States and you know who founded Sien Fueos it wasn’t the Spanish it was the French so we see slightly different architecture labahadores rabahadores this is Andalucia it looks like Granada Spain check out the arches look at the richness of the culture the architecture that’s preserved somehow after the reconquest these uh styles or this style was brought here for one reason or another looks like Cordoba or Granada Spain see Cordoba or Granada now next to this was Fulhensio Batista’s playground Casino Hagua no Hotel Hagwa oh Hotel Hagwa where yes the mafia was here to a lesser degree than Havana to the upscale neighborhoods of a Havana and of course after the revolution this was expropriated and now it’s just a hotel in disrepair but yeah casinos were here the mafia was here prostitution was here tons of American tourists and American dollars were flowing through this area commandante okay montente fore okay elliot commandante hemway [Laughter] okay see much opportunity [Music] [Music] yeah [Music] loose [Music] gracias the light just went for the third time today here in San Fueos so we got to fill up the generator so we can run the uh cafeteria chowo chiao this is a constant constant constant constant here like [Music] [Applause] Hello good morning from the Escambri Mountains La Sierra Escambri now like most places in Cuba these beautiful nature parks were home to rebellion guerilla warfare everything in between after Castro took power before the Bay of Pigs there was a rebellion here a few select people uh turned against Castro and they sided with insurgency and so they tried to resist here but Castro sent hundreds of thousands of troops and squashed that real quick so this was called the rebellion Escambra and as we go east we’re going to see more mountainous regions where we can learn more about that history wow the nature here is unbelievable i didn’t expect this a nice pleasant surprise we’re going to go take a dip down there there’s a pool waterfall and I’ve seen here Russian tourists Germans quite interesting are you from Russia yes privette yeah that’s really cool honestly to see this i’m the only American anywhere I go i’m in enemy territory this is like better than Costa Rica oh it’s cold let’s go check it out i feel like Gabriel Traveler or Harold Balder in Mumbai in the slums if I tell them I’m American that’s it i’m going to disappear in the jungle oh wow [Music] we’ve made it to Trinidad one of Cuba’s oldest cities a UNESCO World Heritage site a place they did a good job preserving when money was flowing in in fact we have our Russian friends here a symbol of the past connection but you guys this place is bleak there’s uh yeah it’s depressing here i know it’s sunny and beautiful but you can’t ignore the fact that yeah this is uh this is much worse than San Fueos listen it’s really hot here extremely hot and so you’d think oh summer I don’t know good vibes there’s a beach nearby but this is going to be a struggle to keep going eastward because it’s just impossible to ignore the reality you got to get out of the tourist center here cuz basically if you make contact with anyone you got you know everyone on you i hate that feeling cuz you know that people need help but you can’t help everyone [Music] cuba like all of the other Hispanic American nations was Christianized and it was very Catholic for centuries until Castro prohibited it and before that when the slaves were brought here by the English the creoyos the Spanish also the French and the North Americans well their beliefs were also prohibited and so what they did was masqueraded their beliefs using the Catholic saints la de la karid the virgin of the copper and that’s what we call Santaia [Music] okay I got the ladies of the bario and since it’s sat Sunday and we’re celebrating we’re going to buy some beers okay [Music] all right guys it’s a It’s a party this is awesome [Music] higher wal [Music] come on [Music] [Music] uh-huh [Music] [Music] say foreign no mhm lovely people and so he bought like 20 beers cuz this is their their their day of celebration [Music] wow it’s uh dry up here in the summer well it’s actually winter in the United States it’s a dry season here yeah this is a tobacco coffee and sugarcane region it was a port i don’t know if the port’s still working like that and of course the a very important city for the Spanish Empire not so much anymore it actually looks like Andalucia very dry very dry one of the guys I met at that dance party his name was America literally and he told me he was in jail for 10 years for possessing the good old Mary Jane now I thought Camel Harris was strict on putting away the ptheads but 10 years for a little bit of Mary Jane from the countryside here in Trinidad jeez Kamla Harris is a saint compared to that all right then i think that does it we saw Sien Fuego in Tidad now tomorrow is going to be more of a challenge the transport as we move eastward is less and less and we’re going to have to travel like a local to get to our end point which is going to remain a secret for now so I hope you guys are learning liking these videos some of them are a little more slow than they were in La Havana if you guys want to support the guys from the lovely city of Trinidad look at the mountains in the background maybe they’re burning sugar cane at the end of the season here this country is so close to the United States yet so different and it’s emotional to travel here every day you feel something new but uh it was well worth it and we’re going to have a lot more to see so see you guys on the next video

Cuba is more than vintage cars and beach resorts. In this video, I travel across the island to expose the real Cuba — power outages, food shortages, and deep poverty. While Canadian and European tourists relax in government-run resorts, ordinary Cubans face daily hardship under a brutal dictatorship. This is the truth behind the “paradise”: a controlled tourism industry that hides the suffering of its people. Join me as I go beyond the tourist zones to show what life in Cuba is really like. Cuba travel, Cuban crisis, tourism truth, real Cuba — all in one video.

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