Brazil & Dubai in Cuba ....Jamaica ignored !

[Historian]

Accurate Comments!

The people are hurting real badly. I was there in July of this year, and Havana now has more than its fais share of whores and beggars. What is even worse, is that the people hurting most are the Afrocubans. Cuba is now more a class and racist society than before the revolution. The only people who a getting ahead are the ones who have family members in the US, ironically, and they are overwhelmingly of European extraction. Cuba and its Stalinist regime of communist thugs really sucks. Lets face it, most of us support Cuba, not because we care about the Cuban people, but simply out of a pro-small-country anti-USA chauvinism. Because something is anti-American does not make it right.

Solid points throughout this thread, Reggaedoc. Sadly, everything you’ve said here is, as far as I’m aware, absolutely correct.

Some of us, in our rabid anti-American posturing, support one of the worst dictatorships in the Western world without knowing the realities on the ground in Cuba. To cite just one other example, in addition to the correct ones Reggaedoc has provided, no matter how great the increase in tourism, the ordinary Cuban tourism worker is not likely to see any improvement whatsoever in their personal earnings. None!

Has any of Cuba’s enthusiastic supporters ever considered why it is possible for such an impoverished country to make such immense donations to other countries (for example, the light bulbs in the case of Jamaica)? There is a price to pay for everything, and in Cuba’s case their so-called development is being done at the expense of the ordinary worker.

If we had such a leader in Jamaica, he would not be dealt with in a “free and fair” election; he would be shot by some fed-up local!!

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They are creeping along in their ineptness. Watch the ride, Chavez has cancer and will soon expire.