Posted on 12/19/2014 6:17:53 AM PST by C19fan
Fidel Castro seized power in January 1959 after waging a guerilla war against then-dictator Fulgencio Batista. The charismatic bearded revolucionario dressed in a dark olive uniform promised to restore order and hold elections. People on the streets of Havana cheered and celebrated the return of fighters from the Sierra Maestra. Batista had fled and Castro was their hero.
But the dream of a new dawn was short lived—at least a democratic one. Soon enough, Castro turned his back on those ideals, embracing Soviet style communism. Cuban exiles fled. Others were ousted. In 1961, the United States broke off relations with the island 90 miles off Florida’s shores.
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“But in a transition process heavily based on economic reforms, the real challenge facing Cubans is not removing the Castro’s communist regime, but tackling corruption.
“The black market is a form of corruption. Most people in Cuba find jobs not because of a salary but because other perks they may have at that job,”...”
Did the idiot that wrote this stop to think that the black market is created when the gov’t makes goods unattainable by free market?
All together now, children; one, two, three:
“TRUE SOCIALISM HASN’T BEEN TRIED YET!!!”
Very well put. How two well to do sons of a United Fruit exec. turned out like Fidel and Raoul, is beyond me.
The ‘sell’ to black criminals adds the twist that ‘you too can be respected’ while acting like a thug... It's also a lie...
It's the promise of a return to childhood - where YOU get - and others give. Childhood - you GET Christmas presents - Mommy and Daddy GIVE. Except in real life parents expect their young to grow up. Peter Pan at 50 is creepy. The folks who promise that 'you can receive without giving' are con artists - manipulators playing on gullibility of people they're going to take... That's why the communist message and democrat-lite message sells.
The ‘sell’ to black criminals adds the twist that ‘you too can be respected’ while acting like a thug... It's also a lie...
It's the promise of a return to childhood - where YOU get - and others give. Childhood - you GET Christmas presents - Mommy and Daddy GIVE. Except in real life parents expect their young to grow up. Peter Pan at 50 is creepy. The folks who promise that 'you can receive without giving' are con artists - manipulators playing on gullibility of people they're going to take... That's why the communist message and democrat-lite message sells. It's a lie.
Strong Satanic influence.
Bump. King, nobles, peasants (with an occasional merchant class).
Well somebody corrupted those two. Batista should have dropped the hammer on Fidel when he had a chance.
Must have been a leg or thigh, I never saw a chicken breast on any trips to the Island, normal Cubans don't get white meat. Castro being “more equal” he probably gets KFC flown in
There's a joke in there about Sharpton and no white meat in Cuba but I'll let someone else go there.
I hate Batista, but yours is a cheap shot that denotes factual ignorance about Cuba before Castro.
Under Batista there were in Cuba a grand total of three gambling casinos, the biggest was at the Tropicana and featured ten gambling tables and thirty slot machines, the Hotel Nacional, featured seven roulette wheels and twenty-one slot machines. “By contrast, in 1955 the single Riviera Casino in Las Vegas featured twenty tables and one hundred and sixteen slot machines. This means that in 1955: one Las Vegas Casino had more gambling action than all of Cuba.
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