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Inequality curbs enthusiasm for Obama visit among Cuba's poor
Reuters ^ | March 19, 2016 | Frank Jack Daniel

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 ...


TOPICS: Cuba; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: castro; cuba; cubavisit; obama
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To: Nationale7

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.


21 posted on 03/19/2016 1:20:44 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: P.O.E.

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?


22 posted on 03/19/2016 1:25:38 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (Cruz voters: Wake up! Trump is our only chance of stopping the gopE. If not now, never!)
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To: Innovative

Equal in misery.


23 posted on 03/19/2016 1:33:24 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

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.


24 posted on 03/19/2016 1:34:19 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: Mears

Fidel Castro certainly isn’t poor, he’s one of the richest men in the world.


25 posted on 03/19/2016 1:34:40 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

“”All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
George Orwell”


BINGO!


26 posted on 03/19/2016 1:39:54 PM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: P.O.E.

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.


27 posted on 03/19/2016 2:54:29 PM PDT by Nationale7
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To: VerySadAmerican

There’s no way to go back and disenfranchise, so the people are going with the iconoclast.


28 posted on 03/19/2016 4:52:04 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: Nationale7

No doubt the people with peacocks and BMWs were well placed in the government. I wonder how they lived with themselves


29 posted on 03/19/2016 4:59:01 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: Yardstick

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.


30 posted on 03/19/2016 6:32:11 PM PDT by Nationale7
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