Posted on 03/23/2002 2:00:17 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Ironically Cuba used to be quite popular with Western entertainment companies who provided great beaches, plenty of prostitutes, and ample gambling opportunities to foreign tourists.
For nearly 30 years the LEFT used to defend Castro by noting that he had made the island much less dependent on tourism, and besides he had tossed out the Mob, and eliminated prostitution and gambling.
The LEFT has been remarkably silent as Castro has reinstituted prostitution and gambling.
As if to show how deeply indebted he is to these institutions, he put everything on the line to bring back the young son of one of his female acquisition specialists!
You know, Baptista would not have done that.
I wonder if the reporter would have asked the same question of Castro.
I think we all know he wouldn't.
There's room for more terrorists. How very convenient and appropriate they're being held there.
The corrupt PRI still holds majorities in the Mexican congress. The majority of Mexican mayors are also PRI. President Fox spoke with the dissidents when he went to Cuba, which was viewed as very risky politically. Vicente Fox's election ousted the PRI from the presidential palace after 70 years of corrupt rule. They are not happy with Fox. I think Castro's temper tantrum was designed by Castro to ruffle some feathers and showcase himself. He only managed to make himself look like the weak fool he is. The socialists in the U.S. congress, the "progressive" U.N. and all those third world tin horn dictators, that align with him, have heralded his control over the Cuban people as a victory against the U.S. and allowed him to preside as Cuba's prison warden for 40 over years.
Yes! LOL
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