Which nation most closely matches your politcs

[chequita guevara]

No one I've known who's been to Cuba has said that Cuba is starving, Fiera. That includes Cubans. Even the rabid anti-Casto Cuban terrorists of South FLorida don't claim that Cuba is starving. Your friends are lying to you. Heck, if people were starving there, the Bush administration would be loudly shouting that fact to the whole world, don't you think?

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by GP
I didn't whore around that bad. There were some guys in the service...

The implication I got from this sentence was that you went to other guys for your needs rather than whores...

[Fiera]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
No one I've known who's been to Cuba has said that Cuba is starving, Fiera. That includes Cubans. Even the rabid anti-Casto Cuban terrorists of South FLorida don't claim that Cuba is starving.

They don't? You obviously haven't read any books about Castro's Cuba written by anti-Castro partisans.

Your friends are lying to you.

Perhaps I'm not using the word "starving" accurately. What my friends do have told me is that any western tourist can perceive the Cuban people poverty and misery out in the streets. Not only in the favelas outskirts like in Brazil, but everywhere.

[TheBirdMan]

I choosed None.

But Sweden and US leads (8 votes each). Why do you really want to punish yourself?!

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Fiera
Perhaps I'm not using the word "starving" accurately.

Starving means mucho hambre, no food. There are no starving in Cuba. Yes, Cuba is poor, no one denies that. But they aren't as poor as most of Latin America.

[Asher]

You guys should read stuff about Cuba:

http://www.salon.com/travel/feature/1999/06/12/cuba/

And does someone care to explain to me why massive "emergency food shipments" make their way to Cuba if no one is starving?

[Fiera]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara

Yes, Cuba is poor, no one denies that. But they aren't as poor as most of Latin America.

If that makes you feel better... but I tend to think that Cuba is now level with countries which have far less resources and potential (ie, Dominican Republic).

[chequita guevara]

Yeah, prostitues are soooo truthful.

Anway, I could link to so many sites about the poverty in the rest of the world its not funny. The difference between Cuba and other poor countries is that in Cuba, their poverty isn't killing them. They're life span is as long as a whie American's.

[Fiera]

Originally posted by Asher
You guys should read stuff about Cuba:
http://www.salon.com/travel/feature/1999/06/12/cuba/

Interesting link, quite consistent with a few stories I've heard from people who have been there.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Fiera
I tend to think that Cuba is now level with countries which have far less resources and potential (ie, Dominican Republic).

You can think that, but the Dominican Republic is far poorer. Hell, the DR still has slavery (though not legally). There was just a massacre of workers in the DR at Cointrouea's plantaions just the other day. The DR has been a recipient of massive amounts of US interference, it has plenty of resources, beautiful beaches, why is it doing so poorly? It doesn't have the excuse of being choked and terrorised by the US.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Fiera
Interesting link, quite consistent with a few stories I've heard from people who have been there.

And no one is poor in Mexico. Even in the resort of Cancun you can see the poverty.

[Fiera]

Yes, there are poor people in Mexico too. And you can explain poverty in DR and anywhere else in Latin America through a huge corruption, I'm not denying that.

I just don't understand why some people won't ever recognize that Castro is just a corrupted dictator, and that Cuba is not a socialist paradise where everybody is free, happy and wise.

[chequita guevara]

Well, for one thing, he's not corrupted, even if some of the party elite is. He lives very modestly, whih is one of the reasons why he is still so popular in Cuba today, and even secretly among many ex-pat Cubans (expressing even the least bit of dissention to the anti-Castro crusade among Cubans in the US can get you killed, and definately ostracized, so no one says anything, but in private its a very different story).

No one says it's a paradise. Even those of us who support Cuba recognize it is a desperately poor country. Nonetheless, many ex-pat Cubans chose to return to Cuba after life in the US.