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Very good points everybody.

I just wanted to let you know I have a new avatar.

Thanks.

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Yeah, I noticed it on the other thread (go figure)

You look like you got SPLAT against the wall.... .as you just woke up........ on a bad hair day

Very good points everybody.

I just wanted to let you know I have a new avatar.

Thanks.

 Bistor, numbers are relative, and don't tell the whole enchilada.  I know Costa Ricans live nicely compared to other countries, but even they don't have solutions for all their problems.

 I agree with you when you say that small countries don't need an army, latin american countries have armies usually to give sh7t to their own people.  Usually army men have ridiculously highsalaries, in some cases even their children and pets have salaries, and they also enjoy free gas, cars, and other goodies.

Most latinos in Canada and in the States don't come from communist countries, and yet, here we are.  It seems that, it doesn't really matter if they are communist or not, we all have corrupted people in our goverments, they are usually backed by their armies.

 Spain is in fact a good exemple to follow, after having Franco for so long ( HE wasn't a communist by the way) the spaniards are finding solutions to their problems.

 I took a trip up north and saw many farms with houses, each is own by a family; in many latin american countries you'll see a lot of people in one place but they are workers who work for a small number of families which own most of the land.

 

 

 

LAB_ wrote:

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bistor wrote:

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It's always amusing to read about admiration for a political system that had had its people under rations since 1962 (well before the collapse of the soviet block) and where soap and other toiletries are a luxury item. What a marvel, the cuban worker's paradise. Lets hope the dictator dies and political and economic reform are put in place in a hurry.

I believe I speak for all when I say I am always grateful for your history lessons, neruda. As I am sure a historian of your calibre knows, rations have been in place in Cuba since 1962, a time when that country's economy was being subsidized to the tune of 5 billion dollars a year by the Soviet Union. Surely, 5 billion dollars is enough for a country of 11 million people to feed itself without having to resort to rations? Unless, of course, the economy has been so fundamentally screwed up by marxist luminaries that, well, it can't! Collectivization anybody? Neruda, please tell the boys and girls of the class what happened in the Soviet Union and China when they attempted agricultural collectivization. Sadly, unlike Castro, Stalin and Mao had nobody to bail them out, resulting in millions of deaths by starvation. Cubans have merely had to put up with substandard rations. While it is considered chic among western leftists to blame the US embargo for all of Cuba's problems (they forget about the embargo when they mention the regime's successes), the truth is that Cuba is quite free to trade with every other country in the world. Just not the United States. The effects of the Helms-Burton have been zero to null, with other countries approving counter-legislation, including, our very own, Foreign extraterritorial measures act. Not aware of any foreign companies doing business in Cuba, are you? I don't blame you. Canada only does about a billion dollars in trade with the nation a year. Regarding Cuba's voluntary withdrawl from the IMF (1964) and World Bank (1960), I'm not sure what your point is. They wanted to leave and they left. At the time they were getting plenty of credit from the soviets. Today, well, not so much. I'm not aware of Cuba reapplying for membership, but perhaps a historian such as yourself is better informed. Cuba IS a member of the WTO though, and perfectly capable of conducting international transactions. As to your speculation on US diplomatic operations, they sound about as reliable as Walter Mercado's predictions. Entertaining too!

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Mang.... doesn't it hurt to post this kind of stuff, all the time?

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Not particularly... I take it freedom of expression is a novel idea to you?

We're not in Cuba, my friend.

LAB_ wrote:

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d-icks?

historical facts?

what's wrong with you? just ignore the thread. Or somethin'.

Besides, if you notice, this is a thread that has gone on for just a bit longer than a week. I don't think I need to remind you of the maybe very interesting, certainly copiously posted on and, at the same time, obviously irrelevant threads that even you have joyously helped to inflate.

 

Now, as for what the Rex has to say... his little piece of historical derailing got its own comments on the paper.

(Letters section)

If he cares to look , Rex Murphy (Castro's Useful Idiots-Aug 5.) will find the reasons for Fidel's popularity in the history of political alternatives in the region. For decades before and after the Cuban revolution, a variety of regimes, backed by the United States and by death and torture squads as needed, defended the interests of the economic elites that enriched them. Millions were left to marginalization, poverty, illiteracy, ill health and early death and, yes, without health care or a school program in sight.

Sadly, it took a tyrant to smash through such tyranny. Mr Castro did it and became the hope of millions of the insulted and injured and of those "idiots" who had the decency to recognize and sympathize with their plight.

Is this why 1.5 million cubans are outside of the country today? Because of the fine economic and political conditions? What is the human rights situation like today? What is poverty like in one of the poorest countries in latin america? How well does Castro, a billionaire, live, as opposed to the average cuban?

Ah, but yes. There is health care. Not health care good enough to be particularly better than in several other countries in the region. But it's there, yes. And this, to some, justifies dictatorship. Because as we all know, there is no other way to implement social programs, but through dictatorship. Marvelous.

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Rex Murphy informs us that, impressive achievements in health care and education nowithstanding, Cuba's dictatorship is an "insult to the people it rules... to their dignity... and honour".

Is it not an insult to the vast majority of Latin Americans that they are without adequate access to health care and education, getting in return only the dubious priviledge of selecting some rich white guy to be their president every few years, someone that rules not on their behalf, but on behalf of some pampered elite?

Yes, there have been some exceptions lately, starting with Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, but Mr. Castro is not their enemy, he is their staunch ally.

Damn... Chavez is the alternative to Castro? Not the democracies in Chile or Costa Rica? One caudillo for another caudillo? Cool.

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

What can I say. If a people, such as the cuban, are satisfied with the scraps they get from papá Fidel, then they have what they deserve: to be treated as minors, and a country crumbling to pieces. Because lets not kid ourselves: opposition to the regime in Cuba is pretty scarce. No cuban tiananmen square that I know of.

Unrepresentative democracy is no more democracy than Castro's show. You make it sound as if there were no other options than those two, but there are. And the most successful countries in the region, those with REPRESENTATIVE democracies, are precisely those that afford their citizens (all of them, not just a few) the highest standards of living in the region. That's right, higher than Cuba's.

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Come on, "he second most malevolent system of the last century"? Cuba pales in comparison with a score of African, South American and South Asian countries. Citizens of these countries just dissapeared -Mr. Castro's victims are living in Miami, waiting to celebrate his passing.

Yes, as we all know, Castro never sent anyone to a firing squad. He's such a nice guy he sent them all to Palm Beach. Cool.

I think it's clear Murphy is referring to communism, and the millions of dead it produced (several times over the entire population of Cuba), and not particularly to this caribbean encarnation of the phenomenon.

If you had read the references to Sakharov and Solzhenitzyn (two names of dubious cuban origin) you might have realized this.

 

 

 

 

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bistor wrote:

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It's always amusing to read about admiration for a political system that had had its people under rations since 1962 (well before the collapse of the soviet block) and where soap and other toiletries are a luxury item. What a marvel, the cuban worker's paradise. Lets hope the dictator dies and political and economic reform are put in place in a hurry.

I believe I speak for all when I say I am always grateful for your history lessons, neruda. As I am sure a historian of your calibre knows, rations have been in place in Cuba since 1962, a time when that country's economy was being subsidized to the tune of 5 billion dollars a year by the Soviet Union. Surely, 5 billion dollars is enough for a country of 11 million people to feed itself without having to resort to rations? Unless, of course, the economy has been so fundamentally screwed up by marxist luminaries that, well, it can't! Collectivization anybody? Neruda, please tell the boys and girls of the class what happened in the Soviet Union and China when they attempted agricultural collectivization. Sadly, unlike Castro, Stalin and Mao had nobody to bail them out, resulting in millions of deaths by starvation. Cubans have merely had to put up with substandard rations. While it is considered chic among western leftists to blame the US embargo for all of Cuba's problems (they forget about the embargo when they mention the regime's successes), the truth is that Cuba is quite free to trade with every other country in the world. Just not the United States. The effects of the Helms-Burton have been zero to null, with other countries approving counter-legislation, including, our very own, Foreign extraterritorial measures act. Not aware of any foreign companies doing business in Cuba, are you? I don't blame you. Canada only does about a billion dollars in trade with the nation a year. Regarding Cuba's voluntary withdrawl from the IMF (1964) and World Bank (1960), I'm not sure what your point is. They wanted to leave and they left. At the time they were getting plenty of credit from the soviets. Today, well, not so much. I'm not aware of Cuba reapplying for membership, but perhaps a historian such as yourself is better informed. Cuba IS a member of the WTO though, and perfectly capable of conducting international transactions. As to your speculation on US diplomatic operations, they sound about as reliable as Walter Mercado's predictions. Entertaining too!

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Mang.... doesn't it hurt to post this kind of stuff, all the time?

Holy shi-ite! Is the "whose d-ick is bigger" competition still going on?

 

And by d-ick I mean "useless knowledge of 'his'torical facts".

 

 

Give it up, people! Sheesh!!!!

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 Cuba represents latin america at the Olimpic games as well. I think everybody forgets that Cuba is a small island and doesn't have the resources of countries such as the USA or Canada, so it's unfair to compare.  But what about comparing Cuba with the Dominican Republic where democracy has been in place for many years, and what about Jamaica, do they really live a lot better that cubans? don't they also try to leave those countries?

 There are countries of similar size to Cuba, those who are better off are in Europe or have petroleum or good conections with former colonial masters.

 

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How about Costa Rica? Their GDP per capita triples Cuba's and they beat Cuba in just about any human development indicator you can think of. Sadly, they have lacked a caudillo with star power such as Fidel Castro all these years.

The Dominican Republic had another dictator (Trujillo) until not too long ago.

 Cuba represents latin america at the Olimpic games as well. I think everybody forgets that Cuba is a small island and doesn't have the resources of countries such as the USA or Canada, so it's unfair to compare.  But what about comparing Cuba with the Dominican Republic where democracy has been in place for many years, and what about Jamaica, do they really live a lot better that cubans? don't they also try to leave those countries?

 There are countries of similar size to Cuba, those who are better off are in Europe or have petroleum or good conections with former colonial masters.

 

Rex Murphy, as usual, telling it as it is.


Castro's useful idiots

REX MURPHY

Fidel Castro's parlous condition this week brought me to an on-line review of a film biography of him. Fidel was released in 2002, and it is clear early on that the reviewer, A.O. Scott, was not too impressed by Estela Bravo's enthusiasm for her subject.

I detected a skeptical gleam, for example, in this line: "This is an exercise not in biography but in hero worship."

Nonetheless, hero worship of Fidel Castro, however perplexing, is despairingly common. Over the 47 years of Castro's dictatorship, whole contingents of Hollywood types have given themselves over to Castro idolatry which -- considering his regime is a one-party state solidly in the mould of every one-party state that has ever been -- is odd even for the moralists of Bel Air.

But then Castro -- much like his early colleague in revolution and arms, Che Guevara -- has always, bizarrely in my view, possessed an unfathomable fashionability among the sophisticated and "right-thinking" classes. No less than our own Pierre Trudeau seemed to have harboured an affection for the Communist tyrant. It is possible, in Mr. Trudeau's case, his dalliances with the dictator answered to some private amusement, that he (Mr. Trudeau) knew how much breaking bread with Fidel annoyed the mandarins of the U.S. State Department and the Nixon White House.

However, it was always a QED too far for me to understand how the mature Mr. Trudeau's visceral and intellectual commitments to civil liberties and the primacy of the individual ever comported with, in logic or morality, toasting an island despot, a leader who had embraced the demonstrably evil creed of communism.

It is, of course, their status as icons of anti-Americanism that mainly accounts for Fidel's and Che's (harsh and harsher) durability in the fashionable mind. Anti-Americanism is the plenary indulgence of all progressive thought. But let us return to the Scott review.

From it, I quote: "At one point, the American novelist Alice Walker, with sublime soft-headedness, marvels that Mr. Castro cannot dance or sing. 'It's a good thing he's got all those other good qualities,' she says."

Mr. Scott doesn't let that go entirely without remark: "This is about the harshest criticism Ms. Bravo permits, and one wonders just which good qualities Ms. Walker had in mind. The persecution of homosexuals? The silencing of political opposition? The jailing of dissidents?"

All justifiable queries, we will agree. But the line that stopped me cold was one A.O. Scott, wickedly, buried in parentheses just before these questions, and in all its glory is as follows, brackets and all: "(Later, she compares him to a redwood tree.)"

I think we have here a landmark moment in ecology as revelation. Novelists are the artists of our time so we're told. They penetrate the surface, they unravel the hidden connections, or speak the unheard messages of our age. Alice Walker is a novelist and Fidel Castro reminds her of a tree. It would be interesting to hear her on Tito. A dogwood, perhaps? So much for the art of the novel.

As I write this the redwood, er . . . the Supreme One, is recovering from an operation and his condition is a "state secret." (Maybe they're counting the rings.)

No surprise there. Dictatorships and health bulletins on the dictator are not compatible. (Let's not even explore the topic of dictatorships and death certificates.) In shrouding his decay or passing, Mr. Castro is merely maintaining one item of a decayed liturgy.

But when he shuffles off this mortal coil, we should all be prepared for a full flood of kindly reminiscence and adulatory appraisal. There will be much talk of the wonderful Cuban health-care system. And there will be much talk of the wonderful Cuban health care system.

Because embracing the second-most malevolent political system of the last century, and maintaining that embrace for close on four decades after its hideous innards were exposed for all the world to see -- after Alexander Solzhenitsyn, after Andrei Sakharov, after the labours of Robert Conquest -- must be counterbalanced by something, by anything, that may be said to tend toward the humane and benign.

The Cuban health-care system has performed that dubious service for as long as Castro has held supreme rule in Cuba. It's a toy of an excuse.

Dictatorship is as much an insult as a horror. It is a fundamental insult to the people it rules, an insult to their dignity, to their honour, and to their souls. Wrap it any way you wish -- compare him to a redwood -- Mr. Castro was a dictator.

Hospitals can be named after him from here to eternity, it will never change the fact he never trusted the people he ruled to make a single real choice over who led them.

Rex Murphy is a commentator with CBC-TV's The National and host of CBC Radio One's Cross-Country Checkup.

Well, I asked a Cuban coworker of mine to give me her opinion on Castro's regime. She was born in 59 - the same year the Cuban Revolution triumphed. Extremely interesting. Now, all I can say is, there are two sides to everything.

ecuaGuayaco wrote:

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Ok, buddy...

Tu logica no da sentido. Fidel tiene bolsas de hierro, y se metio contra los cagados que estaban alli, y los saco. Ahora los cagados del pueblo que van hacer... nada, hasta que ven los Nuevos Cubanos de America, sobre el horizonte con su 8 Billiones de dolares, el CIA y los yahtes que vienen a rescatarlos!

Hasta eso, nadie se va levantar, y no es por que esten deacuerdo, es porque les falta coraje!

 

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What is that mean?

 

In other words....

I need CUBAN HISTORY FOR DUMMIES 

and FIDEL'S BIO in 5 lines.....lol

neruda wrote:

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bistor wrote:

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It's always amusing to read about admiration for a political system that had had its people under rations since 1962 (well before the collapse of the soviet block) and where soap and other toiletries are a luxury item.

What a marvel, the cuban worker's paradise.

Lets hope the dictator dies and political and economic reform are put in place in a hurry.

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It seems some people need a history lesson...

Cuba has been under an economic embargo for a number of years (way before the collasp of the Soviet Union). Furthermore, int'l trade is facilitaed through international agencies such as the IMF and the World Bank. You can't trade very well if you haven't got the credit. The economic embargo hinders such credit (see Allende). Moreover the Helms Burton Act is one of those rare "extra territorial" laws that prevent third party trade with cuba (imagine the US making law for other countries to obey! The nerve).

Regarding the US:
In some US decision making circles there are actually people who are hoping Castro lives.Why?
To answer that we have to look at recent geopoiltics. Hugo Chavez has become more of thorn in the side of the US than Castro. If Fidel is his mentor and he dies, Hugo will take it upon himself to lead the new revolution. He certainly will not look at Raul with the same respect. In fact Raul may be forced to align himself further with Hugo (something that the US certainly does not want). It appears the US were hoping for a transition in Cuba (toward a market economy) with Fidel still in power . This could isolate Chavez.

In fact there has been a lot of scuttlebug about the increasing presence of US diplomats in Havana.

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I believe I speak for all when I say I am always grateful for your history lessons, neruda.

As I am sure a historian of your calibre knows, rations have been in place in Cuba since 1962, a time when that country's economy was being subsidized to the tune of 5 billion dollars a year by the Soviet Union.

Surely, 5 billion dollars is enough for a country of 11 million people to feed itself without having to resort to rations? Unless, of course, the economy has been so fundamentally screwed up by marxist luminaries that, well, it can't!

Collectivization anybody?

Neruda, please tell the boys and girls of the class what happened in the Soviet Union and China when they attempted agricultural collectivization. Sadly, unlike Castro, Stalin and Mao had nobody to bail them out, resulting in millions of deaths by starvation. Cubans have merely had to put up with substandard rations.

While it is considered chic among western leftists to blame the US embargo for all of Cuba's problems (they forget about the embargo when they mention the regime's successes), the truth is that Cuba is quite free to trade with every other country in the world. Just not the United States.

The effects of the Helms-Burton have been zero to null, with other countries approving counter-legislation, including, our very own, Foreign extraterritorial measures act. Not aware of any foreign companies doing business in Cuba, are you? I don't blame you. Canada only does about a billion dollars in trade with the nation a year.

Regarding Cuba's voluntary withdrawl from the IMF (1964) and World Bank (1960), I'm not sure what your point is. They wanted to leave and they left. At the time they were getting plenty of credit from the soviets. Today, well, not so much. I'm not aware of Cuba reapplying for membership, but perhaps a historian such as yourself is better informed. Cuba IS a member of the WTO though, and perfectly capable of conducting international transactions.

As to your speculation on US diplomatic operations, they sound about as reliable as Walter Mercado's predictions. Entertaining too!

bistor wrote:

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It's always amusing to read about admiration for a political system that had had its people under rations since 1962 (well before the collapse of the soviet block) and where soap and other toiletries are a luxury item.

What a marvel, the cuban worker's paradise.

Lets hope the dictator dies and political and economic reform are put in place in a hurry.

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It seems some people need a history lesson...

Cuba has been under an economic embargo for a number of years (way before the collasp of the Soviet Union). Furthermore, int'l trade is facilitaed through international agencies such as the IMF and the World Bank. You can't trade very well if you haven't got the credit. The economic embargo hinders such credit (see Allende). Moreover the Helms Burton Act is one of those rare "extra territorial" laws that prevent third party trade with cuba (imagine the US making law for other countries to obey! The nerve).

Regarding the US:
In some US decision making circles there are actually people who are hoping Castro lives.Why?
To answer that we have to look at recent geopoiltics. Hugo Chavez has become more of thorn in the side of the US than Castro. If Fidel is his mentor and he dies, Hugo will take it upon himself to lead the new revolution. He certainly will not look at Raul with the same respect. In fact Raul may be forced to align himself further with Hugo (something that the US certainly does not want). It appears the US were hoping for a transition in Cuba (toward a market economy) with Fidel still in power . This could isolate Chavez.

In fact there has been a lot of scuttlebug about the increasing presence of US diplomats in Havana.

El verdadero sentimiento de los cubanos (en cuba) se sabra cuando Fidel desaparesca del mando. Si esto incentiva una emigracion masiva hacia miami o se empiezan a ver manifestaciones por su libertad desde cuba, se sabra que los cubanos no estaban agusto con su REGIMEN, si por otro lado los cubanos no emigran y no protestan se sabra que es verdad que ellos estaban agusto con el REGIMEN.

 

Mi opinion es que CUba sera un mejor pais si Fidel desaparece. yo creo que la gente de cuba se merece la oportunidad de triunfar en un mundo COMPETITIVO. El sistema cubano sonde donde todos son iguales, es un poco aburrido, el humano es por lo general un animal competitivo y creativo.

Me parecen graciosos los comentarios que apoyan el sistema CUBANO porque siempre viene de personas que viven en paises DESARROLLADOS. y es gracias a que el pais que viven que es desarrolado y competitivo que tiene la oportunidad de visistar y turistiar cualquier pais del mundo, si ellos que apoyan el sistema cubano vivieran bajo el sistema de cuba simplemente no podrian viajar. El dia que alguien que le gusta el sistema de CASTRO deje su gran vida en CANADA y viva la vida del cubano, no del turista, sino del cubano por el resto de su vida, quizas ahi tome un poco en serio esos comentarios de que el sistema cubano es el mejor.

Sobre paises latinos que usan el dolar americano recordemos que en europa todos los paises dejaron SU EGO PATRIOTICO y todos adoptaron una moneda comun para poder competir en el mundo. El problema de latinoamerica es que muchos de nuestros lideres gobiernan con el corazon y no con la cabaza.

 

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@Bistor, unlike you I haven't lived in Cuba let alone a third world or communist country to be able to have a decent debate. Or have u lived there? Hell my worst days growing up was not getting a Christmas gift I wanted. That doesn't make me a bad person but it does show how everything is relevant.

And unless I'm reading the wrong thread, my one liners are reserved for the pointless threads of the day.

My responses to this thread may have been one sentence long maybe even two but I mean what I say. No need beating a dead horse. And I am not supporting Castro or think its right for people to live in degrading circumstances but really, is there an actual need to argue that point too?

Obviously people risk life and limb to leave Cuba for a reason and those reasons are obvious.

But if you live your entire life with one point of view or one way of thinking with the strictest mind controls enforced, is life outside that world any better? How would you know?

Yes the world could be better, rich nations have enough food and money to take care of the poor nations, cures for diseases do exist and can be distributed worldwide, and communism does work... but the reality is it can't happen in our lifetime or possibly for the rest of human existance. And again, why argue that? Can YOU change it by arguing on a toronto foro? If you can, then I will continue. Otherwise proof is in the pudding, right????

Since you obviously missed my point with the Soviet Union, I will add to it. When communism ended and they were showing reports on the news, the sick and elderly who have lived most if not all of their lives under communist rule had absolutely nowhere to go in terms of food or income because there were food lines and rations... primitive as they were, they were fed every day... then nada. No food, no money, no jobs, NOTHING.

I fear for the people of Cuba. Yes they are intelligent, decent people who have suffered a lot of hardships (and are suffering still) but if and when this government ends its reign, there will be even more hardships that won't be resolved quickly.

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Mark, when a poster presents arguments of the quality that because the Soviet Union collapsed during its transition to a market economy (unlike the Czech Republic, Slovenia or China), all communist countries must collapse with a regime change, I simply don't answer.

I suggest you do the same to those you feel aren't worth your time

@Soslayo: Were those pictures taken in North Carolina? Norway? Perhaps New Zeland? Why are you justifying one lousy system, with other examples of lousy systems? Any pictures of the famines in that other paradise of the proletariat, North Korea?

Is there ANY communist state that affords its citizens a standard of living comparable to (I'll make it easy for you), Portugal, say. Name me one.

Pictures you want... pictures you get... this is real poverty... No one in Cuba is in any where close to being like this.  While i didn't take these pictures you can bet your butt it's reality and not a figment of your imagination.  Don't be so close minded to think Castro is so bad.  Open your eyes to the fight of other nations and be grateful for what you have..  Please see the last picture... While in Cuba after your meal was picked up and thown in the garbage did you think who was going to pick through that same garbage for their dinner??  i guess not.. it's a fact that it's not that bad in cuba... luxury is not everything .. Can i assume that you lived in Cuba?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And to top it all off... this is what Cuba could be like.. you assume cuba is so bad... have you see this picture???????  I wish this on no one.... so i would say CUBANS are lucky were they are .. they could be worse..

 

 

 

@MM: If you have anything to say, beyond one-liners, by all means, contribute to the debate.

@Soloyo: I don't think it matters where you're from, and fortunately, in this country, everyone is entitled to their opinion, regardless if they're playing devil's advocate or not. Your views might be challenged though.

@Soloyo: Glad you are playing devil's advocate, I'm sick of Bistor's one sided view that NO ONE wants to contest here on foro.

Soloyo, thats great. You prefer to be killed by your crumbling house than to have a house in a dumpster. Really. Glue sniffing to kill hunger? How about turning your children into prostitutes to "resolver" a few extra dollars a day?

Are there no countries in the world that offer the majority of their citizens proper housing? No countries that produce enough food for them? Communist Cuba is the point of reference? This is the society to emulate?

Give me a break.

Of course it sucks that in a world where millions of tonnes of food go to waste each year, millions of people go to bed hungry.

Does one have to resort to a totalitarian police state to solve this problem? My guess is no, and there are plenty of countries in the world with well-fed and well-housed citizens to prove it.

Cuba is not one of them!

But by all means, if you feel otherwise, you are free to join the hundreds of thousands of migrants that try to reach the golden shores of Cuba, each year.

What's that? They go to the United States and not Cuba?

I wonder why...