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developing a competitive industrial base is a must for any serious socialist movement, one of my largest criticism against Cuba it's the lack of will in developing production, in stark difference with the DPRK.
I feel like the combination of their natural environment and ruthless, relentless embargos severely restrict their ability there. Plus having the USA permanently there can't be helpful to that endeavor.
There could be an argument for the tropical environment hindering production due to higher costs, machines breaking down faster, maybe lack of a mining industry, etc... But still i still think they don't do enough, their production is still on a pre-industrial stage are which should be embarrassing for any communist party with more than 10 years in power. In contrast with the DPRK whom is an industrial powerhouse with a very similar economic blockade.
the DPRK has the benefit of having a land border with a friendly power, whereas Cuba is 13.5k km from the PRC by ship which is a far harder transport method to ignore embargoes with
on top of that, Cuba needs oil for power and are a net importer even with their relatively low consumption
they do have oil deposits, but it is of a difficult to refine kind of oil, requiring advanced machinery that would need to be imported
all of this on top of being an island in the middle of a heavy hurricane zone
Cuba has it very rough