[Cincinatus' Wife]

Fidel Castro - Cuba

[exnavy]

Hey Fidel, try capitalism/freedom, it works!

[xsmommy]

I was in Toronto over the weekend and saw billboards advertising Cuban vacations! socialists love to say they visited the workers' paradise, while the very same workers, with whom they claim solidarity, would not be able to visit those tourist destinations that are touted.

[PoisedWoman]

Power shortages and blackouts are nothing new in Cuba. And an unprofitable sugar business has been the norm since the 1920s, except for the period when USSR propped up Cuba by overpaying for sugar. Hotel rooms go empty because there are few return tourists -- one trip is enough to discover that you're faced with unending poverty and depression on all sides on your "vacation." Pity, because Cuba has wonderful beaches, fishing, and bargain rates attractive to tourists.

Castro seems to be hell bent on wrecking the island and starving the people. All along, he could have issued the order to plow up the sugar fields and plant food crops to feed the people and even to export veggies and fruits. But no, he'd rather play lord of the plantation while the people go hungry.

[PJ-Comix]

More than 99 per cent of Cuba's registered voters, more than 8m people, last month signed a petition supporting an amendment to the constitution that makes socialism on the island "irrevocable".

This ridiculous election result still has not been reported by CNN. BTW, the CNN correspondent in Cuba, Lucia Newman, hasn't been filing ANY reports from down there lately. Perhaps she is too embarrassed to report anything since there is no way to put a positive pro-Castro spin on the latest events in Cuba such as reports about the Varela Project or the 559 to 0 vote by the rubberstamp National Assembly to make communism "irrevocable."

The Media Research Center recently did a big report about Lucia's patheticly biased reporting and perhaps this is having an impact with the result that she has gone into a clamshell mode rather than risk making any reports from Cuba. Anyway, something is definitely strange going on with the CNN Cuban news bureau.

[KarlInOhio]

¡Socialismo o es muerte!