Urban agriculture has been a staple in Cuba since the special period, including communal urban farms. This isn't new, but an upscaling.

The reason Cuba has not yet achieved food sovereignty is due to problems getting agricultural equipment due to the genocidal US blockade. https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1281611639767339008
When I was in Havana I saw about three farms within four or five blocks of the hotel I was staying in. They were completely open to anyone.

The idea that this is desperate individuals and not a heroic, mass effort, as the text over the video suggests, is laughable.
I was in the youth communist party's hotel btw, not like a tourist tourist one. It's in a local neighborhood and the community came and used the pool all the time for free. It was fucking ace.
Also, funny story. One of my comrades thought he could speak Spanish. He could not. So he spent about ten minutes asking an utterly bemused Cuban what he thought meant "where is the shop?" (la supermache lol) in "Spanish". I then asked in English. The Cuban told us immediately.
Moral of that story is that all people from imperialist nations are dumb shits even when we don't mean to be.
Christ I wish I was still in Havana
It's actually really hard to quantify a lot of the ways in which socialism just made people happier and freer. I had this feeling of immense freedom in Cuba I've never felt anywhere else that I think comes from an accumulation of behavioural differences that are hard to pinpoint.
Of course, the reason for that is the quantifiable stuff - the proletariat owning and organising production and society - but it births a *sense* of things which becomes almost atmospheric over time, at least from my impressions.
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