Fidel Castro Died Yesterday!

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Man your last sentence.........

That is purely impossibru.....
That country is pretty much shit.

But was lucky enough that amreeka did not invade them
for a small nation Cuba under Castro raised the literacy, health and prosperity of his nation far beyond its ever known. something a puppet of western interests would never have. Even better Castro sent tens of thousands of doctors and teachers throughout south, Latin America and afrca to try to improve the lives of those people as well.

America used to send guns and bullets to south America; Castro sent us doctors and teachers. that's why he will always have ardent supporters from the people who's lives he tried to uplift
 

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for a small nation Cuba under Castro raised the literacy, health and prosperity of his nation far beyond its ever known. something a puppet of western interests would never have. Even better Castro sent tens of thousands of doctors and teachers throughout south, Latin America and afrca to try to improve the lives of those people as well.

America used to send guns and bullets to south America; Castro sent us doctors and teachers. that's why he will always have ardent supporters from the people who's lives he tried to uplift
Oh dear, as much as you commie as much as you support these scumbags, Same like how the North Korean leader Kim earned the noble person of the century
 

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Oh dear, as much as you commie as much as you support these scumbags, Same like how the North Korean leader Kim earned the noble person of the century
Nice rhetoric but try to make a point instead of attacking people.

unfortunately for people like you who prefer small nations remain slaves to larger and western nations Castro actually helped millions of people gain a higher quality of life throughout his administration.
As much you like to begrudge people like Castro . he put his actions where his mouth was and tried to uplift the third world by providing social services to many outside his country and many even outside his continent.

if it weren't for people like Castro our lands would be just locations of vacation resorts and cheap source of sugar and rice for rich white people.

Thank Bhagwan/allah/jesus for castro's short but constructive time on earth
 

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Stop praising Castro for health and education 'advances'

Several public figures have been keen in the wake of Fidel Castro's long-awaited death to praise the late communist dictator for supposedly improving healthcare and education for the Cuban people.

But for those who managed to survive the Castro purges, and for those who were not forced into exile, it doesn't appear things really improved in either of these areas.

This hasn't stopped certain circles from painting the man who lived to oppose 11 U.S. presidents as something of a rough but noble crusader for human rights.

The New York Times, for example, claimed in an obituary published this weekend that the Castro regime ushered in an era of "medical advances."

The same obituary also hailed the deceased leader for "improving education and health care for many Cubans," and claimed that, "Admirers from around the world, including some Americans, were impressed with the way that health care and literacy in Cuba had improved."

Similar claims were made this weekend in competing newsrooms, including at MSNBC where Andrea Mitchell predicted Castro would "be revered" for bringing improving education, social services and health care for Cubans.

ABC News' Jim Avila's closing remarks for Castro included characterizing the deceased as the "George Washington of his country."

And so on.

But claims that Castro was some sort of bringer of knowledge and good health are total nonsense, according to a number of media and political figures, including the Competitive Enterprise Institute's Hans Bader.

"Cuba has made less educational progress than most Latin American countries over the last 60 years," he claimed recently, citing numbers from UNESCO and the United Nations. "Cuba has made less progress in health care and life expectancy than most of Latin America in recent years, due to its decrepit health care system."

To the question of education, Bader argued: "Cuba had about the same literacy rate as Costa Rica and Chile in 1950 (close to 80 percent). And it has almost the same literacy rate as they do today (close to 100 percent)."

He continued:

Meanwhile, Latin American countries that were largely illiterate in 1950 — such as Peru, Brazil, El Salvador, and the Dominican Republic — are largely literate today, closing much of the gap with Cuba. El Salvador had a less than 40 percent literacy rate in 1950, but has an 88 percent literacy rate today. Brazil and Peru had a less than 50 percent literacy rate in 1950, but today, Peru has a 94.5 percent literacy rate, and Brazil a 92.6 percent literacy rate. The Dominican Republic's rate rose from a little over 40 percent to 91.8 percent. While Cuba made substantial progress in reducing illiteracy in Castro's first years in power, its educational system has stagnated since, even as much of Latin America improved.

And to the question of Cuban healthcare, it's actually quite good – if you're lucky enough to get it.

There are three tiers to Cuba's healthcare system, according to National Review's Jay Nordlinger.

"The first is for foreigners who come to Cuba specifically for medical care. This is known as "medical tourism." The tourists pay in hard currency, which provides oxygen to the regime. And the facilities in which they are treated are First World: clean, well supplied, state-of-the-art," he wrote, citing Jaime Suchlicki of the University of Miami's Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies.

Nordlinger continued:

The foreigners-only facilities do a big business in what you might call vanity treatments: Botox, liposuction, and breast implants. Remember, too, that there are many separate, or segregated, facilities on Cuba. People speak of "tourism apartheid." For example, there are separate hotels, separate beaches, separate restaurants — separate everything. As you can well imagine, this causes widespread resentment in the general population. The second health-care system is for Cuban elites — the Party, the military, official artists and writers, and so on. In the Soviet Union, these people were called the "nomenklatura."

And their system, like the one for medical tourists, is top-notch. Then there is the real Cuban system, the one that ordinary people must use — and it is wretched. Testimony and documentation on the subject are vast. Hospitals and clinics are crumbling. Conditions are so unsanitary, patients may be better off at home, whatever home is. If they do have to go to the hospital, they must bring their own bedsheets, soap, towels, food, light bulbs — even toilet paper. And basic medications are scarce. In Sicko, even sophisticated medications are plentiful and cheap. In the real Cuba, finding an aspirin can be a chore. And an antibiotic will fetch a fortune on the black market.

[…]

The equipment that doctors have to work with is either antiquated or nonexistent. Doctors have been known to reuse latex gloves — there is no choice. When they travel to the island, on errands of mercy, American doctors make sure to take as much equipment and as many supplies as they can carry. One told the Associated Press, "The [Cuban] doctors are pretty well trained, but they have nothing to work with. It's like operating with knives and spoons."

Literacy rates on par with surrounding, freer countries and a three-tiered healthcare system where the privileged and foreigners benefit the most, and all for the price of one brutal, liberty strangling dictatorship.

¡Viva la Revolución! Indeed.
 

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  • Was Castro a dictator? Yes. Yet, he was much better than Batista, whom he deposed.
  • Cuba was a rich man's playground. Castro put an end to gambling and prostitution, which formed a major part of Cuba's economy under US puppet Batista.
  • Did Castro have political prisoners? Yes. Yet, in comparison to Bush, he looks like a Saint.
  • There is not a single street in Cuba named after Castro. Neither did he encourage putting up his statues.
  • Cuba's medical services are indeed enviable, and an average Cuban has better access to healthcare than an average American.
  • Cuba's education is also fairly well managed, and its higher education is more accessible in Cuba than in the US.
  • Cuba, albeit poor (keep in mind the embargos), is doing better than Puerto Rico, which is struggling in the midst of a debt crisis.
 

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Western media: Castro was evil.
Indians: Yes, yes, yes.
Western media: Indians are rapists.
Indians: no, no, no.

Dumb folks. No wonder the congress ruled our country for 60 years.
Many do not care about politics or economy or any thing that concern the nation ,more in to what Bollywood and Hollywood
 

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Some of the Key achievements of peedel caastro

“In the early days, at least 550 (and perhaps 2,000 or more) opponents of the revolution were executed.”

“In 2003 he launched a new crackdown … long sentences on 78 democracy activists, executing three would-be migrants”

#Castro ‘admitted to a foreign visitor, in an unguarded moment, “the Cuban model doesn’t even work for us any more”’

http://www.economist.com/news/ameri...de&spv=xm&ah=9d7f7ab945510a56fa6d37c30b6f1709

Thanks to Shashank Joshi
 

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I think .... Feedel castro is Revolunary leder not for cuba but also worl...d

to undrestand him put US ideology ... and dont think or listen what Western media says ......!!!

Feedelcastrois great guy...

exampl: if USA govt.media report ....this country.....or this group..or a leader... is not hve good idea like..
like cuba, /feddel castro dont accepttheir system /term/policy/ rules... what ever.....

us just trid to allways cler ...
like saddam hussain..
laden(when laden was popet of cia for fought against soviets,,, he is"Mujjahiddin"
and when he attack 9/11 he became terrorist..

julian assange...
this guy is osome.. because he reveled all that secrete what usa/cia/fbi pantagon allwas want hide from this world...

usa is poooooor....haha

history is full like this story...
us Attack Iraq.. i reason shaw off iraq has WMD/Camichle weapons.. but all know there no Any kind of WMD found...result 600000 to 900000 people killed...

where is human right?
where is international court?
who is responsible?
who judge usa's war crime?

saddam hussain got death penalty because of he .. did iran war crime. any othr..

but now can george bush got death?...no
yes his partner tony blair faced some charge..(i dont knw how serious)???

cia try to 8 time to kill Feedel castro'''...
but its good luckfor feedel.....

this is Hippocrascy...





now time is changing....

china .... is going to big punch.. also russia is back with moster thred for usa...
 
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I think .... Feedel castro is Revolunary leder not for cuba but also worl...d

to undrestand him put US ideology ... and dont think or listen what Western media says ......!!!

Feedelcastrois great guy...

exampl: if USA govt.media report ....this country.....or this group..or a leader... is not hve good idea like..
like cuba, /feddel castro dont accepttheir system /term/policy/ rules... what ever.....

us just trid to allways cler ...
like saddam hussain..
laden(when laden was popet of cia for fought against soviets,,, he is"Mujjahiddin"
and when he attack 9/11 he became terrorist..

julian assange...
this guy is osome.. because he reveled all that secrete what usa/cia/fbi pantagon allwas want hide from this world...

usa is poooooor....haha

history is full like this story...
us Attack Iraq.. i reason shaw off iraq has WMD/Camichle weapons.. but all know there no Any kind of WMD found...result 600000 to 900000 people killed...

where is human right?
where is international court?
who is responsible?
who judge usa's war crime?

saddam hussain got death penalty because of he .. did iran war crime. any othr..

but now can george bush got death?...no
yes his partner tony blair faced some charge..(i dont knw how serious)???

cia try to 8 time to kill Feedel castro'''...
but its good luckfor feedel.....

this is Hippocrascy...





now time is changing....

china .... is going to big punch.. also russia is back with moster thred for usa...
Learn english and then learn economics and you'll realise how broken your notions really are
 

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How Fidel Castro is Like the Minimum Wage

Bryan Caplan
Monday, November 28, 2016




How many people did Castro murder? The authoritative Black Book of Communism blames him for 15-17,000 executions. More speculative estimatesput the blood of another 80,000 Cubans on his hands - everyone who perished trying to flee his doleful paradise. And the man was guilty of many other evils.

Still, by the bloody standards of Communist dictators, Castro's rule was mild. Castro's Cuba doesn't even look like the biggest charnel house in modern Latin America. The Guatemalan Civil War (1960-1996) probably claimed more innocent lives. Indeed, multiple U.S. Presidents have killed more civilians than Castro - though of course they had the power to murder vastly more. Why then should we dwell on the horrors of Castroism - or make a point of dancing on Fidel's grave?

Here's why: Because Castro is a symbol of larger evils - evils that claimed many millions of lives - and could do so again. Castro symbolizes the idea that backwards countries can and should take the following path to modernity:

  1. Wage civil war by any means necessary to overthrow existing regimes.
  2. After victorious civil war, hand total power over to Marxist intellectuals.
  3. Cheer while these Marxist leaders expropriate business, expel foreign investors, and try to run the whole economy.
  4. Use this centralized economy to build up a mighty military.
  5. Deploy this military (and military-industrial complex) to help Marxist intellectuals in other countries copy your path to modernity.
Any person of common sense would have foreseen the fruits of this demented recipe: mass murder, slavery, war, famine, and poverty. But common sense is, alas, not so common. The horrific Marxist-Leninist "experiment" spread from Russia to Eastern Europe, China, southeast Asia, Africa, and Castro's own Latin America. And while most of these regimes were far worse than Cuba, Castro did great evil - and continues to do evil - by charismatically inspiring sympathy for this psychopathic path to a glorious future.

In my mind, then, Castro is a lot like the minimum wage: something we must stubbornly decry even though there are far greater ills in the world. My words:

The minimum wage is far from the most harmful regulation on the books. Why then do I make such a big deal about it? Because it is a symbol of larger evils.

From the standpoint of public policy, the minimum wage is a symbol of the view that "feel-good" policies are viable solutions to social ills: "Workers aren't paid enough? Pass a law so employers have to pay them more. Problem solved."...

We need to get rid of the minimum wage. But that's only a first step. Our ultimate goal should be to get rid of the errors that the minimum wage has come to represent.

We need to get rid of all sympathy for Castro. But that, too, is only a first step. Our ultimate goal should be to get rid of the errors that Castro has come to represent. Castro was a villain straight out of 1984. And in a just world, Orwell's words would adorn his tombstone:

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
 

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Castro Betrayed the Revolution

Jeffrey Tucker
Sunday, November 27, 2016




Fidel Castro has died at the age of 90, and, by chance, I had just seen the wonderful 2015 movie “Papa” about Ernest Hemingway’s years in Cuba before the revolution. The backdrop of the movie is pre-Castro Cuba, a struggling but prospering land lorded over by the brutal dictator Fulgencio Batista (1901-1973). It is the first Hollywood movie to be filmed on site since the Cuban Revolution.

The slogan of the revolution was “freedom or death,” and Castro was its leader.The movie sought to recreate the year 1959. Ironically, that was not hard to do. Most films set 50-plus years ago would have to go in search of older neighborhoods, antique cars, old technology, dated fashions, dirt streets, and so on. To make this film probably required the opposite: touching up the paint, repairing some roads, and so on. Otherwise, everything could remain the same.

Here’s the problem. When Castro came to power, his communist policies stopped all economic development. People talk about high literacy rates and universal access to health care, but travelers over the last decades could easily observe the hoax here. This is a land that is frozen in time, one that people have risked life and limb to escape for 50 years. Even today, it’s a museum, a living refutation of the core claim from one-hundred years ago that communism would end economic oppression and create wealth for everyone.

Meet the New Boss

How did Castro come to power in the first place? The film reveals the story. Even if you know nothing else about Cuban history apart from what the film shows, you can see why the status quo could not last.

Batista ran for president in 1952. Facing certain defeat, and deeply experienced in the ways of military rule, he led a coup d’etat that put him in power. He was not a communist but rather a typical military dictator. He shut down the free press. He prevented assembly. He slaughtered his personal enemies. He had any challenge to his rule violently suppressed. While he was friendly to business deals and gladly accepted bribes from American companies doing business in Cuba, his corruption and brutality created the conditions that led to a revolution.

The result was not the democracy and freedom that people wanted but an incredible nightmare for a struggling country.The slogan of the revolution was “freedom or death,” and Castro was its leader. And not just any leader. He became a legendary figure, beloved especially by the American press. TheNew York Times in 1957 wrote: “Here was an educated, dedicated fanatic, a man of ideals, of courage and of remarkable qualities of leadership.”

Very soon after Castro took power, however, he celebrated the public execution of political rivals, confiscated private lands, proclaimed his attachment to Marxism-Leninism, and a solidified totalitarian rule that would last half a century. The result was not the democracy and freedom that people wanted but an incredible nightmare for a struggling country.

The US responded with denunciations, embargos, and sanctions, which in turn gave Castro the excuse he needed to justify his police state and the scapegoat he needed to take the blame for the ghastly failure of his economic policies. No matter how bad life became for the Cuban people, the narrative inside Cuba was always the same: look at what the evil US is doing to us.

Fidel Castro's fanatical ideology could not protect him from mortality itself, the ultimate limit on the power of any individual human being. Otherwise, his power knew no limits. None of the tributes you read about this great revolutionary can disguise the reality: he was a bloody dictator who held the Cuban people, those he permitted to live, hostage to his own power ambitions. He was the betrayer of his own revolution.

Frying Pan to Fire

Cuba is only one case in point of dozens more in the 20th century: a dictatorship of the right (or left) is followed by a dictatorship of the left (or right), which is followed by a dictatorship of the right (or left), and so on without end. We’ve seen it so many times. The longing for revolution is always the same: freedom or death. It’s an inspired and inspiring idea. It quickly vanishes once the revolutionaries get a taste of power and copy the methods of those who came before, and their successors do the same.

There are differences in emphasis, propaganda, cultural tone, and political priorities between forms of dictatorship, but they all have in common the same loathing of freedom itself.In 1944, F.A. Hayek had warned that in today’s world of invasive states, the ideological covering can shift, but the threat to freedom remains the same. The threat of communism gives rise to fascism, while the reality of fascism inspires communism, the failure of which bolsters the hopes of fascism, and so on. The details and sequencing of shifts varies from country to country. But the dynamic keeps repeating.

There are differences in emphasis, propaganda, cultural tone, and political priorities between forms of dictatorship, but they all have in common the same loathing of freedom itself. So long as the world seeks supposedly educated and courageous men of ideals to exercise leadership from the top down, we will be forever betrayed, buffeted from one ideological excuse for despotism to another.

What is the fundamental error? Hayek says it is this: the belief that the social and economic order is an extension of one will, one plan, one design, one aspiration. This is fundamentally an intellectual error. It emerged from the academy in the late 19th century. It was handed off to some of the most wicked people of the 20th century to commit unspeakable crimes against humanity.

Freedom or Power?

And so what is the alternative? A good society is an emergent institution, one that evolves from the discrete choices of individuals, where they are, acting in peace and mutual regard for their interest and the well being of others. There is no society-wide plan but that which resides in the minds of individuals, and even that must always and constantly be tested by changing conditions.

In the end, the real struggle is not between right and left but between freedom and power. We must never lose sight of this central point and never stopping working for a genuinely free world.
 

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How the Castro regime has impoverished Cuba / David Muñoz Lagarejos
Posted on November 28, 2016by Instituto Mises Cuba
Fidel Castro has died. He died the leader of the Cuban Revolution. One who embarked on the Granma with his brother Raul and Che Guevara, among others, with the aim of overthrowing Fulgencio Batista from power. They succeeded and implemented a dictatorship that lasted until the present day.

Leaving aside the guerrilla techniques, propaganda, false promises of freedom and democracy to the Cuban people, how Cuba has changed in these five and a half decades compared to other countries that were evenly matched to the Caribbean island?

In political terms I think there will be no doubt, but there is always people who do not think for themselves and engage in praise what others say without checking. The continuing lack of freedom for the Cuban people have become increasingly visible in recent years. From an authoritarian government, no parliament, no free and pluralistic elections without political pluralism, following a regime of repression and persecution of dissidents, those who only think differently from the revolutionary elite. Because the Cuban Revolution, contrary to what they think, gave rise to an elite that has lived luxury while the people lived and is still living subject. Democracy, understood as material Marxist equality, has never been demonstrated in Cuba. One can only speak of equality in misery, again, while the dictatorial elite (a kind of nomenklatura, with reference to the USSR) has lived with host of luxuries. One of the bodyguards of Fidel Castro has told some other time, "Fidel never renounced the luxuries of capitalism, one thing was his speech on the" austere life "should live revolutionaries else was their way of life, that was the whole capitalist ". His brother Raul and the support the regime, like that.

Economically, a state that has engulfed the economy. The lack of economic freedom and capitalism (non-existent in Cuba) has left no room for prosperity. Cubans have had to resign themselves during these almost 60 years, watching how they remain poor, while individuals and companies from other countries were prospering hand of economic freedom, welfare and capitalism.

In 1970, Cuba had a very similar to that of countries like South Korea or Singapore economy. They had a per capita income did not exceed one thousand dollars ($ 653, $ 292 and $ 925, respectively). But there is a vital difference. While Cuba did not allow free trade, private enterprise, innovation, etc., South Korea and Singapore took off economically thanks to all that was forbidden in Cuba.

In 1990 the difference was already clear: Cuba had a per capita income remained at low levels ($ 2,707), while South Korea and Singapore were beginning to taste the sweetness of capitalism: $ 6,642 and $ 11,864, respectively. Cuba only had 'progressed' x4, while South Korea x23 multiplied in those 20 years and Singapore x13.

And now, the difference is much higher. Three more or less couples economies in 1970 are now completely different. In 2013 (the latest year with data from the 3 at a time), the per capita income of Cuba amounted only to $ 6,790 (just x10), while South Korea and Singapore have definitely taken off: $ 25,998 (x89) and $ 55,618 (x60) .

Source: World Bank
 

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The comments from Indians are not surprising.

Indians, who've been slaves for god knows how long, are attacking a guy who didn't want the third world to be a slave.
I attack usurpers and dictators who seduce and then enslave the masses in the name of some mythical glorious revolution.Some revolutionary!!Some freer of people!!
 

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Stop praising Castro for health and education 'advances'

Several public figures have been keen in the wake of Fidel Castro's long-awaited death to praise the late communist dictator for supposedly improving healthcare and education for the Cuban people.

But for those who managed to survive the Castro purges, and for those who were not forced into exile, it doesn't appear things really improved in either of these areas.

This hasn't stopped certain circles from painting the man who lived to oppose 11 U.S. presidents as something of a rough but noble crusader for human rights.

The New York Times, for example, claimed in an obituary published this weekend that the Castro regime ushered in an era of "medical advances."

The same obituary also hailed the deceased leader for "improving education and health care for many Cubans," and claimed that, "Admirers from around the world, including some Americans, were impressed with the way that health care and literacy in Cuba had improved."

Similar claims were made this weekend in competing newsrooms, including at MSNBC where Andrea Mitchell predicted Castro would "be revered" for bringing improving education, social services and health care for Cubans.

ABC News' Jim Avila's closing remarks for Castro included characterizing the deceased as the "George Washington of his country."

And so on.

But claims that Castro was some sort of bringer of knowledge and good health are total nonsense, according to a number of media and political figures, including the Competitive Enterprise Institute's Hans Bader.

"Cuba has made less educational progress than most Latin American countries over the last 60 years," he claimed recently, citing numbers from UNESCO and the United Nations. "Cuba has made less progress in health care and life expectancy than most of Latin America in recent years, due to its decrepit health care system."

To the question of education, Bader argued: "Cuba had about the same literacy rate as Costa Rica and Chile in 1950 (close to 80 percent). And it has almost the same literacy rate as they do today (close to 100 percent)."

He continued:

Meanwhile, Latin American countries that were largely illiterate in 1950 — such as Peru, Brazil, El Salvador, and the Dominican Republic — are largely literate today, closing much of the gap with Cuba. El Salvador had a less than 40 percent literacy rate in 1950, but has an 88 percent literacy rate today. Brazil and Peru had a less than 50 percent literacy rate in 1950, but today, Peru has a 94.5 percent literacy rate, and Brazil a 92.6 percent literacy rate. The Dominican Republic's rate rose from a little over 40 percent to 91.8 percent. While Cuba made substantial progress in reducing illiteracy in Castro's first years in power, its educational system has stagnated since, even as much of Latin America improved.

And to the question of Cuban healthcare, it's actually quite good – if you're lucky enough to get it.

There are three tiers to Cuba's healthcare system, according to National Review's Jay Nordlinger.

"The first is for foreigners who come to Cuba specifically for medical care. This is known as "medical tourism." The tourists pay in hard currency, which provides oxygen to the regime. And the facilities in which they are treated are First World: clean, well supplied, state-of-the-art," he wrote, citing Jaime Suchlicki of the University of Miami's Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies.

Nordlinger continued:

The foreigners-only facilities do a big business in what you might call vanity treatments: Botox, liposuction, and breast implants. Remember, too, that there are many separate, or segregated, facilities on Cuba. People speak of "tourism apartheid." For example, there are separate hotels, separate beaches, separate restaurants — separate everything. As you can well imagine, this causes widespread resentment in the general population. The second health-care system is for Cuban elites — the Party, the military, official artists and writers, and so on. In the Soviet Union, these people were called the "nomenklatura."

And their system, like the one for medical tourists, is top-notch. Then there is the real Cuban system, the one that ordinary people must use — and it is wretched. Testimony and documentation on the subject are vast. Hospitals and clinics are crumbling. Conditions are so unsanitary, patients may be better off at home, whatever home is. If they do have to go to the hospital, they must bring their own bedsheets, soap, towels, food, light bulbs — even toilet paper. And basic medications are scarce. In Sicko, even sophisticated medications are plentiful and cheap. In the real Cuba, finding an aspirin can be a chore. And an antibiotic will fetch a fortune on the black market.

[…]

The equipment that doctors have to work with is either antiquated or nonexistent. Doctors have been known to reuse latex gloves — there is no choice. When they travel to the island, on errands of mercy, American doctors make sure to take as much equipment and as many supplies as they can carry. One told the Associated Press, "The [Cuban] doctors are pretty well trained, but they have nothing to work with. It's like operating with knives and spoons."

Literacy rates on par with surrounding, freer countries and a three-tiered healthcare system where the privileged and foreigners benefit the most, and all for the price of one brutal, liberty strangling dictatorship.

¡Viva la Revolución! Indeed.
its cubans fault theyre the victims of american economic bullying? blame Castro and cuban nationialism for American sanctions that deny Cubans the basic right to free trade which America pretends to adamantly support? if they can't even get car parts for 30 year cars why would America let them access healthcare products? is it Iraqis fault America denied them access to basic medications that ended up costing over one million Iraq lives since Yankee sanctions were imposed?

all the countries like chile, El salvador Brazil etc your article cites suffered tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of dead political prisoners which the us and west helped murder directly which it should compare instead of health care and literacy which it also lies about. not to mention it should include all the health care centres and schools throughout central, south America and Africa cubans set up while America set up right wing terror camps.

my parents, aunts and uncles still tell me 50 years later when they went to British/western/Yankee schools in south America it was 6 hours of Christian theology and learning English while rarely more than two hours of actual education in science and maths. western health care centres would send hindus and muslims to the back of the line and you'd be lucky to see a doctor before the day was through if ever..basically beg for your life if you weren't a slave convert.

and finally the Washington examiner is a Self declared right wing tabloid. it even has the Gaul to try to dispute the new york times which is like Donald Trump trying to discredit ghandi..just because something is written in English and supports your skewed nonsensical slavish viewpoint.. try not to embarrass yourself by posting it
 

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I attack usurpers and dictators who seduce and then enslave the masses in the name of some mythical glorious revolution.Some revolutionary!!Some freer of people!!
it's a shame bose, Gandhi and Bhagat Singh tried to fool, seduce and enslave our indian community with ideas of revolution..hopefully the brit raj comes back and gives us nice new locomotives.
 

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