Posted on 03/19/2016 11:59:50 AM PDT by Innovative
Fluttering U.S. flags, fixed-up roads and fresh paint on colonial buildings convey the optimism in Havana ahead of U.S. President Barack Obama's historic visit this weekend, but rising inequality sours the mood for some of the city's poor.
The White House says the first such trip by a U.S. president since Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution is a step toward better lives for Cuban people suffering under a U.S. embargo.
The Obama policy has specifically targeted Cuba's small but growing private sector with measures such as allowing sales of farm and construction equipment for non-state enterprises.
Private-sector workers already enjoy advantages over those at the bottom of the income ladder, who must survive on meager state salaries and rations.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
I thought the revolution was all about equality? What went wrong? /s
There are no poor in Cuba-—ask Michael Moore.
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but rising inequality sours the mood for some of the city’s poor.
The whole point of communism is for everyone to be equal. By definition, how can there be rising inequality in a worker’s paradise such as Cuba???
And how can there be poor people in Havana, when Cuba is a worker’s paradise? Communism is supposed to do away with poverty.
The Castros need to round up, lock up and beat those malcontents so that the 0bamas have a pleasant visit.
George Orwell
BINGO!
IF Michael Moore Said It Then It Must Be True!
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That is not a joke-it is what they always do before some dignitary is coming to visit-people have even been killed...
Thr rising inequality is probably that there are some people trying to improve their lives after Raul started allowing more capitalism. According to the American press, progress is a problem that must be fixed.
Let there be no doubt!
I wonder if these people notice that Cuba is a monarchy.
Poor? I thought Communism abolished poverty and inequality?
Oh you mean Cuba still has its poor after decades of Communist rule? Oh THAT Cuba!
Got it.
Cuba is an oligarchy. Under a monarchy the ruler is allowed to stay in power so long as he supports the citizens. Under an oligarchy there is no such obligation. The tyrant rules in spite of the harm he does to his people.
There are very few monarchs and very many oligarchs.
Like North Korea.
The same family has been running Cuba as its own private plantation nearly the entire time I’ve been alive.
With precious little to show for it.
This article says most Cubans still blame the embargo for their economic problems. If they believe that, the mind boggles.
Cuba was free to trade with EVERY !!! other country in the world before the embargo ended. If they can't figure out it was the socialist system that was the cause of their extreme poverty, then they have a lot to learn
Marxists putting up a brave front, otherwise called a perfumed pig.
I spent a month in Cuba in 1996, researching something I was writing.. I met people in the western suburbs of Havana who had peacocks on their lawns, and drove BMW’s, and sent their children to school in Spain. I met people in the eastern slums who livde in shacks, with open sewage in the street. Whatever hope there was for equality in Cuba died in the first months of 1959, when Fidel and Che betrayed an authentic popular movement against dictatorship and replaced that movement’s democratic ideals with allegiance to Moscow. One of the great crimes.
Suffering under the U.S. embargo, but not socialism, so it seems.
Inequality? I guess 70 years of communism couldn’t cure inequality. It was never meant to. It was meant to suppress individuality and control the pawns.
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