Would you TRADE, AmeriKa?
"The government's broad social safety net ensures him and all other Cubans free medical care and heavily subsidized services, including a very cheap monthly food ration that provides about a third of the average dietary needs. Education through university level is free"
And they are a POOR COUNTRY! AmeriKa is an OBSCENELY WEALTHY COUNTRY! Why can't we also have those services!
And for those who don't know, the Cuban Five were a group of agents who came over and uncovered the CIA connections to terrorists in Miami. They turned all their info over to the American government, who promptly arrested and imprisoned them!
"Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists. From this day forward, any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded by the United States as a hostile regime." -- George W. Bush, September 20, 2001
Yeah, whatever, asshole!
Related: AmeriKan Hypocrisy on Terrorism
"Raul Castro offers to swap dissidents for 'Cuban 5' in US" by Marco Sibaja, Associated Press | December 19, 2008
BRASILIA - Cuban President Raul Castro made an unprecedented offer yesterday to exchange political dissidents jailed in his country for five Cubans imprisoned in the US for espionage....
The Cuban president referred to the so-called "Cuban Five," who were convicted in 2001 on espionage charges and are lionized in Cuba as heroes.... State Department spokeswoman Heidi Bronke said the jailed dissidents should be released immediately without conditions....
This from the country with a torture chamber -- GITMO -- on the same island. The gall is repugnant, folks!
"Castro's grip firm as Cuba's revolution turns 50; New activists emerging to challenge regime" by Anita Snow, Associated Press | December 21, 2008
HAVANA - .... Today, between the extremes of enforced communist dogma and the die-hards of the Cuban diaspora still dreaming of bringing down the Castro regime, other faces of Cuba are emerging: dissident bloggers, rappers, installers of pirate satellite dishes, and the women who call themselves Las Damas de Blanco, or Ladies in White - who march weekly to demand the release of their husbands from political imprisonment.
I love it when a Zionist-controlled, agenda-pushing, shit-shoveling, war-promoting, AmeriKan MSM scitte sheet hollers kettle!
Activists have a new way to reach the outside world - blogging....
I don't know about you, but now I'm offended! I turn off to blogs the MSM promotes! They never once referred to mine.
But few of Cuba's 11.2 million people have access to the Internet, and anyway are preoccupied with staying afloat in a sclerotic economy where basics like toilet paper often disappear from store shelves and most people eat meat only a few times each month....
And that is much different from AmeriKa how?
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A tumultuous crowd greeted a 32-year-old Fidel Castro when he and his commanders reached Havana on Jan. 8, 1959, just a week after their victory in eastern Cuba spelled the end of the Batista government. Ernesto Plasencia, a bony 76-year-old ex-rebel, remembers that day on the Malecon, a seaside highway.
"It was a fiesta, like carnival! We were so happy! The tyrant was gone!" he said.
He augments his disability pension of 140 pesos (about $6.70) a month by selling candy on the Malecon and has no major complaints. The government's broad social safety net ensures him and all other Cubans free medical care and heavily subsidized services, including a very cheap monthly food ration that provides about a third of the average dietary needs. Education through university level is free.
Like his government, Plasencia blames Cuba's hardships on the US embargo, imposed after Castro embraced communism and nationalized Western-owned industries.
Well, if the SHOE (smile) FITS!
Plasencia is grateful for the communists' agrarian reform that gave his family a patch of farmland. "I had to leave school when I was 10 to shine shoes," he recalls. "My mother had to wash and iron rich people's clothes."
Yeah, but Castro is a monster!
On the other side of Havana Bay, looms the Spanish fortress where Ernesto "Che" Guevara, a top Castro commander, directed executions of several hundred Batista police and army officials accused of torturing and killing opponents....
See?
I sure am glad AMERIKA doesn't do those sorts of things!!!
