I was leafing through the BBC archives when I spotted this little article:
A new post to help "Castro" demise
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4726301.stm
This is an excerpt of it:
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has announced the creation of a new post to help "accelerate the demise" of the Castro regime in Cuba.
Caleb McCarry, a veteran Republican Party activist, was appointed as the Cuba transition co-ordinator.
Ms Rice said for 50 years Fidel Castro had condemned Cubans to a "tragic fate of repression and poverty".
How interesting is this then? The US government is openly and actively trying to undermine another government.
But, besides this horrific behaviour, just read what Condola Rice has to say: "Cubans being condemned to a tragic fate of poverty."
Well, that got my brain remembering an article I read about last year's hurricane which was called Isidore. And an article on the year before that's hurricane, which also battered Cuba and was called Michelle.
Seemingly Cuba, with all its poverty (basically due to 3 decades of embargos. I mean, even Canada was threatened by the US that if they were to supply anti-biotics to Cuba, there would be severe repercussions!), has excellent hurricane defences.
Here's on article I could still find on it:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/2270127.stm
And here's an excerpt:
About 250,000 people and thousands of farm animals were evacuated in Cuba's Pinar del Rio province, and the island's civil defence programme was activated.
No fatalities have been reported.
Cuban President Fidel Castro travelled to the worst hit area to personally supervise evacuation and emergency measures.
Makes you wonder, doesn't it? How a third world nation, bowed under the pressures of horrendous embargos can still manage it. How on earth can Cuba have more doctors per head of the population than the US? A low birth-death rate? Good education?
It seems to me that Condola Rice is very one-sided when it comes to her facistic approach to governments she doesn't like.
Originally posted by shavixmirI think they are still pissed off they lost all those casino's
I was leafing through the BBC archives when I spotted this little article:
[b]A new post to help "Castro" demise
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4726301.stm
This is an excerpt of it:
[i]US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has announced the creation of a new post to help "accelerate the demise" of the Castro regime in Cuba. ...[text shortened]... Rice is very one-sided when it comes to her facistic approach to governments she doesn't like.[/b]
when castro came into power...
Originally posted by Paul DiracWasn't it that Kennedy twerp who offered refuge to any Cubans wanting to leave Cuba? And that Castro then sent the boats full of "needy" people (to coincide with the middle classes who had already fled)?
I am old enough to remember the last time Castro offered something to the United States.
http://www.answers.com/topic/mariel-boatlift
I believe the last time Castro offered something to the US was after the Florida election. He offered to send monitors to help them sort out their problems.
The man is classic!
Originally posted by chancremechanicI wonder if they're all flocking to New Orleans then?
If Castro is classic, why has the Cosat Guard intercepted 24,000+ refugees in the Florida straits....many of them professional...this past year. I did patrols off Cuba for three years, and people are frantic for a better way of life. You're right, Castro is a classic....a Classic Arsehole....and so is his brother Raul....
Originally posted by shavixmirNo, from my 3 years experience it's mostly young 20-30 somethings, a smattering of elderly, lots of children, and even a Cuban doctor named Jorge who assisted me with a sick child. Incidentally, he was a graduate of one of Cuba's elite medical schools, was very medically educated but was just tired of making $15.00 a month. Even you Shav, in Holland, would make more than $15.00 a month on Dutch welfare, no?...and still probably go on holiday to Monte Carlo? Why don't you go to Cuba and REALLY prove that you are a true communist and hug and kiss Castro for providing such a great way of life for his subjects?.....heck, you probably wouldn't make $15.00 a month, not being a doctor and all, but maybe $8.50 a month would make it worth your while being a true communist....only thing, you'd have to take a raft to Miami for holiday.....if you made it...😀
Are you sure it's not just old people flocking to Florida?
Originally posted by chancremechanicConsidering Cuba does have more doctors per head of the population than the US.
No, from my 3 years experience it's mostly young 20-30 somethings, a smattering of elderly, lots of children, and even a Cuban doctor named Jorge who assisted me with a sick child. Incidentally, he was a graduate of one of Cuba's elite medical schools, was very medically educated but was just tired of making $15.00 a month. Even you Shav, in Holl ...[text shortened]... communist....only thing, you'd have to take a raft to Miami for holiday.....if you made it...😀
Considering Cuba has a lower infant mortality rate than most US States.
Considering Cuba has more hospital beds per head of the population than the US.
Considering the literacy rate in Cuba is only 1% less than the US
Considering there are more teachers per pupil in Cuba than in the US
Here's a little article you should read. Cuba is not perfect, but it's not much worse than any other place you can live. It has its good points and its bad points.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1457410,00.html
Oh. And by comparing what I earn to what a Cuban earns is pathetic. I can't buy a diet coke here without a bloody mortgage.
Originally posted by shavixmirThose statistics are admirable and commendable for Cuba, but it does the population no good if they cannot reap what they sow....Ok, so they have more professionals per capita than the U.S., but those are the professions that are making the $15.00 a month....heck, I'd study to be a doctor or teacher too if the education were free and paid the best wages, but for the most part, Cubans in Cuba are a hard-working but generally miserable people...I know! I've interviewed hundreds of them....if Castro was so great, why did most of the professional Cubans flee to the US in '59....hard work and education should be rewarded with a decent standard of living, not as a doctor making $15.00 dollars a month in Cuba....the literacy rate is incomparable because we are absorbing every illiterate peasant from most 3rd world countries by the millions....Cuba is absorbing a few Venezuelans from his butt-hole fellow commie Chaves....Venezuela is a worse chit-hole than Cuba. Cuba could be the Monte-Carlo of the Caribbean; it is beautiful, especially Guantanamo Bay where I've enjoyed many a cold cerveza, but Castro, along woth Kim Jong Ill, another idiot, is holding down a hard-working people by the heel of his chit-encrusted boots.
Considering Cuba does have more doctors per head of the population than the US.
Considering Cuba has a lower infant mortality rate than most US States.
Considering Cuba has more hospital beds per head of the population than the US.
Considering the literacy rate in Cuba is only 1% less than the US
Considering there are more teachers per pupil i ...[text shortened]... earn to what a Cuban earns is pathetic. I can't buy a diet coke here without a bloody mortgage.
Addendum: by the way, I think it's hypocritical of the US to continue the embargo against Cuba because we "wheel and deal" with regimes that are just as communist: China, Vietnam, and Russia....it is the STRONG anti-castro Cubans in S. Florida who dictate this ridiculous embargo. I've nothing against Communism if a country and its people choose that form of gov't. I'd be the first to visit Havana and admire its beautiful women....I'd encourage exchange of medical and scientific info to help both countries as we do with China and Russia.....so I'm with you on that agenda, but Castro has to wake up or relinquish power to a government like run by a Putin or whoever the geek is who runs China...Cuba would prosper under such a change...don't you think?
Originally posted by chancremechanicGo to Cuba and interview the people there.
Those statistics are admirable and commendable for Cuba, but it does the population no good if they cannot reap what they sow....Ok, so they have more professionals per capita than the U.S., but those are the professions that are making the $15.00 a month....heck, I'd study to be a doctor or teacher too if the education were free and paid the best w ...[text shortened]... whoever the geek is who runs China...Cuba would prosper under such a change...don't you think?
The people who flee to Miami will probably be very one-sided in their opinions of the country they are fleeing.
Don't forget that what brought Castro to power was the absolute corruption and abusive nature of the former regime there (which was also Western backed). The people, the hard working people, didn't get squat diddley in Cuba in the 50's.
And, from what I've heard from friends who have been to Cuba, is that the generations who remember the former regime are all too happy to have got rid of it.
Originally posted by shavixmirDid you read my "addendum" to my last post?
Go to Cuba and interview the people there.
The people who flee to Miami will probably be very one-sided in their opinions of the country they are fleeing.
Don't forget that what brought Castro to power was the absolute corruption and abusive nature of the former regime there (which was also Western backed). The people, the hard working people, did ...[text shortened]... is that the generations who remember the former regime are all too happy to have got rid of it.