GLIMPSE OF THE LIFE IN CUBA

2/2003 | JACHEW

[backhoe]

Fidel Castro - Cuba
... Fidel Castro - Cuba. various LINKS to articles | April 14, 2002 ...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/665733/posts - January 16, 2003 - 150 KB

[Free ThinkerNY]

Castro-The Stalin of the Carribean

[lodwick]

HUGE bttt - thanks so much for this one. A most fascinating read.

[jjm2111]

Wow, Excellent! Bump to the top!

[Cincinatus' Wife]

***Carlos continued to speak in a low voice. He did not want our neighbors to hear, “The government doesn’t provide adequate rations of rice, yet it is illegal to buy rice on the black market. This is the contradictory chasm that disgusts us. Castro profits on the dollars, yet punishes those who try to earn dollars outside the system. The average Cuban is paid 220 pesos ($8.00) per month, which is impossible to live on, so the rest of the time is spent in line trying to obtain rationed items where they can be found—on the black market. Some say it is the way the government prevents Cubans from organizing. We are all too exhausted from standing in line or going hungry to protest. To get by we pretend to go along. We wear a mask and say that all is fine. But people are tired of living a lie.” ***

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[Cincinatus' Wife]

***. In Cuba, everything is illegal. Everybody is committing a crime to survive. Not all the laws are enforced, but when the State wishes to, it only has to find out which crime is being committed. For example, without paying absurdly high license fees, any making of dollars is considered “illegal enrichment.” Farmers can’t sell excess milk to poor neighbors. Selling privately is against the law and butchering a steer will lead to 7 years in prison for “illegal slaughter.” The real crime is competing against the State. All dollars belong to Castro’s elite; nobody is allowed to make any money here. They want every dollar for themselves.” I mentioned that I had met a man who was serving 12 months for selling lobster on the black market. It was another case of a Cuban being punished for interfering with the State’s monopoly. ***

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[Cincinatus' Wife]

Great piece Dqban22.

[Dqban22]

A friend of mine sent it to me and I believe is a perfect picture of Castro's Cuba. Naturally he preferred to keep his name anonymous to protect his/her relatives in Cuba.

[dfwgator]

Cuba is one big "Potemkim" village. Whenever some Hollywood idiot comes to visit Cuba, they are shown what Castro wants them to see, happy people who claim to love socialism, wear nice clothes and appear well-fed. But the moment they leave, it's right back to oppression as usual. These same idiots would think that just because Hitler gave the Jews "Thereisenstadt" that he must have been treating the Jews well. We should take out Castro right after we take out Saddam and Kim.