Yap Yap Yap. I failed to look too closely at this thread when I was previously here, knowing I'd probably just wanna puke on some of you.
Telling us how horrible it will be if evil capitalistas like Starbucks move in. Oblivious to the fact that a company like Starbucks is successful because people LIKE going there. Duh.
Busy demonizing the exiles of the commie-pig, murderous dictatorship:
and the original miami cubans were the rich who cried because they lost their villas.
The people marching in the streets in Miami are being whipped up by exile radio which is controlled by a few really well connected wealthy exiles.
The BUT MONKEYS telling us Castro may be a murderous dictator BUT BUT BUT...the health system is sure something to behold.
He might be a dictator, but he still managed to give the Cuban people the best health, education and social security system in Latin America....
They have one of the best health care and education systems in the world....
I know that all, and I think it's amazing, I'd love that my country got the health system that cuban people have....
Here's some pictures of lovely Cuban health care
a photohrapher named Luis Alberto Pacheco Mendoz risked being sentenced to life in prison to get out to the world:
Oh how wonderful a health system that is! I am awestruck! But no thanks. Count me out. I'll stick with the
Cleveland Clinic, one of the best hospitals in all the world, right here in my city in the good old USA.
But oh how kind Fidel is to let his people have the health system you see in those pics. He certainly is a nice guy, that Fidel! Hard to believe all his apoligists in the West don't just move there themselves! And if it weren't for the evil USA things would be even better!
Forbes:
Cuba's 76-year-old revolutionary doesn't advertise his opulent life. In public, at least, he dons fatigues and black combat boots. But he can afford better. We estimate that Castro has at least $110 million (roughly 10% of Cuba's GDP) at his disposal.
Oops, you forgot to mention that, you pathetic apologists for dictators. Did it ever dawn on you that you're just spewing Fidel's propaganda? Yes, he does rant on about the U.S. embrago in his ten hour speeches, and you morons eat it up, never asking yourselves that maybe you shouldn't believe the...um...dictator who murders people.
BUT BUT BUT, the BUT MONKEYS say.
At least one of ya had a brain, and had a but to the buts:
but being killed for thinking different is the same that Pinochet did to us,and I can't forget that...a murder done by a comunist or by a fascist is the same for me
Ah, thank you. The leftoids don't get that. For them, murder and enslavement by a commie is somehow "nicer," because the commie-pig may be a totalitarian and a murderer...but he's also an "idealist"!
There's a bit more the fools forgot to mention. I'll let the Swedish writer Johan Norberg take over, because he hits this point about Pinochet home and exposes these scummy lefties for the phonies they are.
And in these the final days of the Fidel regime, we keep hearing the propaganda about Cuban achievements in health and living standards. But it´s like the old joke about how you end up with a small fortune - you just start with a big one. It´s not difficult to present literacy approaching the Spanish rates if you started out by having higher literacy than Spain. So I´ll just repeat what I have written before:
Before Castro, Cuba was as rich as Italy, and richer than Spain. Cuba has not merely lagged behind, it has actually grown poorer, and is now more than five times poorer than these countries. It used to be among the richest in Latin America, now it’s among the poorest.
Cubans had better access to food than all other Latin American countries except Argentina before Castro, but now they have worse access than almost all the others. Cubans are the only people in Latin America who have seen their intake of calories decrease since then. It is now better than in the 90s, but more than every tenth Cuban is chronically undernourished.
Cuba had lower infant mortality than all other Latin American countries before Castro, and lower than France, Italy and Japan. It is the only area where progress has continued since then, but it has been much slower than in other similar countries.
(Source: Manuel Sánchez Herrero och Arnaldo Ramos Lauzurique: Los llamados logros.)
But hasn’t anyone benefited from the revolution? Sure, Castro has amassed a fortune equal to ten percent of Cuba’s GDP. This is one dictator who does not wear his uniform because he can’t afford a suit.
And, oh, did I mention that Castro has murdered more than 70,000 of his own citizens for political reasons? That’s about seven times more than Pinochet, who is hated by all leftists who love Castro. Apparently murder and brutality is not what they object to in Pinochet.
Here is a test of extreme leftists´ double standards: Do they mention the infant mortality statistics as an excuse for murder and dictatorship? In that case, do they think that Pinochet was better than Castro, since he reduced infant mortality in Chile more in 25 years than Castro has done in Cuba in almost 50 years?
"Apparently murder and brutality is not what they object to in Pinochet."
Indeed, it's not what they object to. And the other info is what their professors (cicadas like Ward Churchill) failed to fill them in on.
And it's especially disturbing that Castro has his fans on Morrissey-SoLow, considering Castro's cruel treatment of homosexuals. He stuck them in labor camps that had signs reading "Work Will Make Men Out of You," and he rounded them up and tossed them in prison, where they had to wear uniforms with a P on them, for "prostitutes, pimps and pederasts."
And as for the person who mentions artists, here's a poem by Raul Rivero (translation by Paul Berman), who - last I heard - is serving a 20 year sentence for daring to think for himself.
Search Order
by Raúl Rivero
What are these gentlemen looking for
in my house?
What is this officer doing
reading the sheet of paper
on which I've written
the words "ambition," "lightness," and "brittle"?
What hint of conspiracy
speaks to him from the photo without a dedication
of my father in a guayabera (black tie)
in the fields of the National Capitol?
How does he interpret my certificates of divorce?
Where will his techniques of harassment lead him
when he reads the ten-line poems
and discovers the war wounds
of my great-grandfather?
Eight policemen
are examining the texts and drawings of my daughters,
and are infiltrating themselves into my emotional networks
and want to know where little Andrea sleeps
and what does her asthma have to do
with my carpets.
They want the code of a message from Zucu
in the upper part
of a cryptic text (here a light triumphal smile
of the comrade):
"Castles with music box. I won't let the boy
hang out with the boogeyman. Jennie."
A specialist in aporia came,
a literary critic with the rank of interim corporal
who examined at the point of a gun
the hills of poetry books.
Eight policemen
in my house
with a search order,
a clean operation,
a full victory
for the vanguard of the proletariat
who confiscated my Consul typewriter,
one hundred forty-two blank pages
and a sad and personal heap of papers
—the most perishable of the perishable
from this summer.
f*** Fidel and f*** every one of his apologists.
