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 ...
It’s the same M.O. Che/Castro, Mao, Pol Pot, etc.
They rally the poor and uneducated with Utopian promises. Soon as they bring down the extant regime, they take off their sheep’s clothing and put on the iron boot.
They (Trump) rally the poor and UNEDUCATED with Utopian promises. Soon as they bring down the extant regime, they take off their sheep’s clothing and put on the iron boot.
Is this what Cruz says about Trump and his supporters?
Equal in misery.
There has never been anything as true communism. It’s impossible. All communist governments have been dictatorships that enslave their own people. Obama is so naïve he doesn’t know this simple fact, much like most leftists. The ones who do know it just want the power.
Fidel Castro certainly isn’t poor, he’s one of the richest men in the world.
“”All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
George Orwell”
BINGO!
Yes. Raises the question of what those societies would have been like if they had kept their promises. China maybe not so different — Mao was a communist from the go — but Fidel never breathed a communist word until he was firmly in power. He literally had two cabinets, one for show and one, later at night, for the real stuff.
There’s no way to go back and disenfranchise, so the people are going with the iconoclast.
No doubt the people with peacocks and BMWs were well placed in the government. I wonder how they lived with themselves
Well placed in the government, the government-sanctioned arts or government-sanctioned (or winked at) commerce in cigars. The ones I met and chatted with had no more trouble living with themselves than the hedge fund managers of my acquaintance in New York.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.