Perfect timing.
upi.com ^ | Feb. 14, 2015 | Denise Royal
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3257752/posts
A new HIV strain in some patients in Cuba appears to be much more aggressive and can develop into AIDS within three years of infection. Researchers said the progression happens so fast that treatment with antiretroviral drugs may come too late. Without treatment, HIV infection usually takes 5 to 10 years to turn into AIDS, according to Anne-Mieke Vandamme, a medical professor at Belgium's University of Leuvan. According to the study, published in the journal EBioMedicine, Vandamme was alerted to the new aggressive strain of HIV by Cuban health officials who wanted to find out what was happening.
Before Castro, Cuban did not need visa to visit U.S. or establishing residence in this country. Cubans did not need before the triumph of the Cuban communist revolution to cross in make shift rafts the Florida Straits where 4 for every 5 Cubans lost their lives in their pursuit of freedom, they came by plane or ferry as tourists and students. There were not Cuban dreamers in quest of the American opportunities. In fact, before Castro, there were more Americans living in Cuba than Cuban living in United States. The living standard in Cuba in the 1950s was second only to the United States.
About the much maligned portray of Cuba as an American playground and mafia enclave, it must noted that in Cuba before Castro, the mafiosi that created Las Vegas emporium, had only three casinos in Havana and the yearly income of those casinos together were less than the income of any single Las Vegas casinos in a week.
Before Castro an average of 200,000 American tourists visited Cuba, in 2014, it was over 650,000. But together with Americans, came also thousands of tourists from Europe and Latin American including many looking for sex with children. Now Cuba is now a Mecca for the most depraved pedophiles and pederasts that go there looking for sexual exploitation of children. In fact Havana is second only Bangkok in that abominable crime.
By 1995 the Italian travel magazine Viaggiare recognized Cuba as the paradise of sexual tourism, awarding it five stars for its general erotic level. According to the magazine, Cuba beat out such competitors as Brazil and Thailand. (Adams, p. 1A; Dalia Acosta, Culture Tourism: Cuba Brushes up its Tourist Image, Interpress Service, Sept. 19, 1997. Lexis-Nexis).
Those tourists who travel looking for unending bacchanals are aiding and abetting the most brutal murderous regime in the history of this hemisphere
Renowned English historian, Hugh Thomas, who wrote an scholar History of Cuba, The Pursuit of Freedom from the Discovery to the beginning of Castros revolution, referring to Castros Cuba affirmed in The Spectator (7/12/1986): The comparison must be with the account of Nazi concentration camps. Although there as yet no gas chambers in Cuba, there have been experiments of a criminal biological type designed to see how far an individual can survive starvation, beating, solitary confinement, and many various kinds of ill treatment. Valladares account of working in a stone quarry is not dissimilar to, and no more humane than, the many accounts extant of life in Manthausen.