Have a little faith, Castro implores

Boston Globe ^ | 7/28/05 | Indira Lakshmanan

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

In the face of food shortages, low wages, dilapidated housing, and persistent power cuts, exasperation with penurious living conditions is at its highest levels since Cuba suffered an economic shock from the loss of Soviet subsidies in the early 1990s, according to residents.

It's Bush's fault.

[Right Wing Assault]

I don't think they have any vegetable oil in Cuba. Of course, since Havana Jane is a tourist, they can probably get her an unlimited supply. IF she pays with US dollars, of course.

[jrushing]

In the face of food shortages, low wages, dilapidated housing, and persistent power cuts, exasperation with penurious living conditions

Viva la Revolution!
It's for the Poor & the Cheldrun don't you know.
The Dems should love to move there,
to the worker's paradise.
Free education, free health care, socialism at it's best!
If only they would.

[Nip]

The thing that no one wants to talk about is the fact that the ex-patriot Cubans living and working in the US are the only things standing in the way of Cuba’s complete and total economic collapse.

These loyal family members send dollars to their family members still stranded in Cuba. It is these dollars that fund Cuba’s economy, both white and black. Should the flow of these dollars stop, for even a short period, the Cuba economy would collapse so hard you could feel it all the way to Washington - state that is.

As for who will replace Castro? That is the biggest question. In the last 50 odd years he has removed (aka killed) anyone who was a threat to his personal power; not once but many many times. There is no one to replace him nor any one in Cuba with the skills to start a new track. Nor will the Cubanos living in Cuba accept an ex-patriot from the States.

Cuba after Castro will be the basis of many doctorial theses in political science and economics. And like most of these theses they will be totally wrong.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Fidel, one of these days the Peons are going to figure out that you still put your pants on, one leg at a time, and that you still need to wipe your hiney, if you don't want to itch, and then, said Peons will reduce you to basic components, fit only for fertilizing tomatos.

[Reactionary]

Yeah. "Faith." I guess the atheistic swine on the Left have to rely on something like "faith" to prop up totalitarianism.

[Richard-SIA]

JFK already ruined Cuba's try at regaining freedom, no administration since has made any sincere effort, this one won't allow it to be tried again by Cuban expatriates.

So Cuba will have to implode from within before they can improve.

[BigFinn]

Cuba, probably one of the few dirtpads on the face of the earth that doesn't have a mosque on it... Yet.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Bump!

[Polyxene]

Maybe Jimmah Peanutbrain and his lovely other half, ROZ-lynn, can go down and give their good friend, Fidel, a hand by building some shacks. Or maybe they could make some PB&J's to pass out with their very own peanut butter! Ol' Jimmah should have some of that Nobel Peace Prize money left to dole out, too!