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Cuba Celebrates 59th Anniversary Of Revolution

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HAVANA — Cuban President Raul Castro said Thursday that his government is willing to mend fences with bitter Cold War foe the United States and sit down to discuss anything, as long as it is a conversation between equals.
At the end of a Revolution Day ceremony marking the 59th anniversary of a failed uprising against a military barracks, Castro grabbed the microphone for apparently impromptu remarks. He echoed previous statements that no topic is off-limits, including U.S. concerns about democracy, freedom of the press and human rights on the island, as long as it is a conversation between equals.
"Any day they want, the table is set. This has already been said through diplomatic channels," Castro said. "If they want to talk, we will talk."Washington would have to be prepared to hear Cuba's own complaints about the treatment of those issues in the United States and its European allies, he added."We are nobody's colony, nobody's puppet," Castro said.Washington and Havana have not had diplomatic relations for five decades, and the 50-year-old U.S. embargo outlaws nearly all trade and travel to the island.

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Raúl: Resisting the empire for 50 years is the great accomplishment of the Cuban people
President of the Councils of State and Minister, Army General Raúl Castro congratulated the people of Guantánamo for their efforts and the magnificent 26th of July commemoration, conveying to them a warm embrace from Fidel
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At the conclusion of the national commemoration of the assault on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes garrisons, Raúl said that resisting the empire for 50 years is the great accomplishment of the Cuban people

Raúl reiterated that the updating of the country’s economic and social model must continue to progress, without haste, but without delay. He reaffirmed that Cuba does not fear discussion of any issue with the United States, as long as such discussion is based on equal terms.

Also speaking during the impressive event in Guantánamo, which began at 7:00am, were a young pioneer, the province’s Party Secretary Luis Torres Iribar, and First Vice President of the Council of State and Ministers, José Ramón Machado Ventura.

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Cuba is not going away. Until we actually want to have a discussion with them that is the day we can move forward on this issue. Cuba si!
 
wowi didnt know people celebrate poverty,starvation,and oppression,oh wait you must mean the well fed comunist leaders who get plenty of food and dont have to worry about their buildings collapsing on them.

btw the us embargo line is bs,alot of european and south american countries still trade with cuba,infact all not being able to trade with the united states did was add shipping costs from europe.
 
wowi didnt know people celebrate poverty,starvation,and oppression,oh wait you must mean the well fed comunist leaders who get plenty of food and dont have to worry about their buildings collapsing on them.
Starvation?


btw the us embargo line is bs,alot of european and south american countries still trade with cuba,infact all not being able to trade with the united states did was add shipping costs from europe.

Well it costs it about 5 billion dollars a year. So ummm not so much bull****. Ever heard of the Helms Burton act? Applies the embargo to foreign companies doing business with Cuba.
 
Starvation?




Well it costs it about 5 billion dollars a year. So ummm not so much bull****. Ever heard of the Helms Burton act? Applies the embargo to foreign companies doing business with Cuba.

wow their economy is soo bad 5 billion a year cripples them???????that just says its bad.i guess thats why russians had no problems pumping money into cuba,cuz the bill was so cheap.

for starvation,oh yeah they gotz it,they have had it ever since russia stoped pumping billions in their economy.their houses are collapsing,people have been without running water and electricity in many areas,food is scarce,so is medicine and other supplies.

just the fact cuba has blocked cubans from leaving or seeing the western world proves such a mess,after all if cuba was so great,why has castro gone to great lengths to hide anything western or modern from them,such as prosperity,food for 3 meals a day,and buildings that dont collapse on them like they do in the ultra mega poor districts in india.

Millions of Cubans facing starvation: Hunger is fuelling an exodus of desperate refugees, writes Phil Davison from Havana - World - News - The Independent
 
wow their economy is soo bad 5 billion a year cripples them???????that just says its bad.i guess thats why russians had no problems pumping money into cuba,cuz the bill was so cheap.
How big do you think a small islands economy is?


for starvation,oh yeah they gotz it,they have had it ever since russia stoped pumping billions in their economy.their houses are collapsing,people have been without running water and electricity in many areas,food is scarce,so is medicine and other supplies.

just the fact cuba has blocked cubans from leaving or seeing the western world proves such a mess,after all if cuba was so great,why has castro gone to great lengths to hide anything western or modern from them,such as prosperity,food for 3 meals a day,and buildings that dont collapse on them like they do in the ultra mega poor districts in india.

Millions of Cubans facing starvation: Hunger is fuelling an exodus of desperate refugees, writes Phil Davison from Havana - World - News - The Independent

Have a quick question. If people are "starving" in Cuba how do they have the longest life expectancy in the region? Living longer than US citizens? How do they have a high HDI as well?
 
How big do you think a small islands economy is?




Have a quick question. If people are "starving" in Cuba how do they have the longest life expectancy in the region? Living longer than US citizens? How do they have a high HDI as well?
one how big is a small islands economy???before the socialist revolution they were among the best economy in latin america,and production was so high for agriculture they were exporting to other countries,after fidel castro and his socialism works better than this innefeciant capitalist system,it turned to cuba importing 80% of its food.cuba went from being one of the best to the worst.



really couldnt care about life expentancy considering they are dirt poor and starving with almost no medical care.its great they have no high fructose corn syrup to give them cancer,just that much longer they can live until their roof colapses and kills them or they get a non cancer disease their communist country cant cure because their communist leader blocks despite countries in europe and south america who dont care about the imbargo,but he doesnt care,he doesnt want them to see that there is anything greener than starvation and poverty.
 
How big do you think a small islands economy is?




Have a quick question. If people are "starving" in Cuba how do they have the longest life expectancy in the region? Living longer than US citizens? How do they have a high HDI as well?

first question before comunisn they were among the highest ranking economy even though their population was smal.after communtism their gdp and productio went stagnant,explain why they went from exporting a large amount of crops to inporting 80% of their food?????????


second life expentancy in cuba,i already said they dont have all the high fructose corn syrup and processed foods.it still dowsnt change the fact that our poor have a higher standard of living that their general population.


oh its so grand,we have guaranteed jobs that feed us every other day,we live a little longer without processed foods,but we are miserable and will die anyways from our roofs collapsing/.
 
Cuba is not going away. Until we actually want to have a discussion with them that is the day we can move forward on this issue.

I agree with this. The US embargo and refusal to at least sit down and talk things over is helping no one, least of all the average Cuban. Cuba is neither as good nor as bad as some on opposite sides of the political spectrum would have us believe. It's a country in transition, doing better every day at a very slow pace but living daily with the fear of what the next leader will do. Will they continue Raul's slow reforms or will they reverse all the minor progress achieved in recent years?

This is a very good article on what's really going on in Cuba today, long read but worth it if anyone wants an unbiased picture:

Cuba: The second revolution? - Americas - World - The Independent


No, not yet. Not by a long shot.
 
My wife visited Cuba in 1998 as a citizen of Switzerland. She and her husband of that time rented a Toyota to tour the countryside. They found that few of the people outside of the tourist district in Havana would talk to them out of fear of being reported. My wife and her husband got hungry while out in the country, but only after begging a cafe manager to let them in could they sneak around to the back and get a meal, which consisted of rice, beans, and pork, and no other choices. They didn't have the correct money to pay, but the manager didn't care. The ordinary Cubans were paying with some kind of voucher. A shop my wife saw there consisted of a single room with concrete walls and floor, a single bare light bulb, and several bushels of yams piled up on the floor in the middle of the room -- the yam shop -- it was all they had to sell. The shop was open 24 hours a day with three shifts of workers. Later on, my wife and her husband had trouble with their rented car and asked for a mechanic. A man showed up on a bicycle. He had three tools wrapped up in a rag, a screwdriver, a pair of pliers, and a file (or something, she wan't sure what it was). He couldn't do anything with the car, and they had to leave it for the tourist bureau to deal with. The mechanic said he manned a repair shop that was open 24 hours a day, with three shifts of workers. The government paid him to work there, but there was little to do. Everything was open 24 hours a day, everyone had a job, but they had nothing to work with and little to sell.

Back at the hotel a Coke or a juice drink was $5, but you could buy rum drinks for $0.50, so they drank a lot of rum. They exchanged their money for Cuban, but it could only be spent at tourist stores that ordinary Cubans could not enter. My wife remembers one old man who asked her to buy an ice cream from the tourist store, and she did. Ice cream was apparently not otherwise available to ordinary Cubans.

Every time the US eased up on their policy toward Cuba in the past and opened things up a bit Fidel Castro found a reason to clamp down again. We'll see how it goes this time around.
 
one how big is a small islands economy???before the socialist revolution they were among the best economy in latin america,and production was so high for agriculture they were exporting to other countries,after fidel castro and his socialism works better than this innefeciant capitalist system,it turned to cuba importing 80% of its food.cuba went from being one of the best to the worst.
Kidding me right?


"Prior to the Cuban Revolution, Cuba had a one-crop economy whose domestic market was constricted. Its population was characterized by chronic unemployment and deep poverty. United States monopolies like Bethlehem Steel Corporation and Speyer gained control over Cuba's national resources, from which they made huge profits. The banks and the country's entire financial system, all electric power production, and most industry was dominated by US capital. US monopolies owned 25 percent of the best land in Cuba, and more than 80 percent of all farm lands were occupied by sugar and livestock-raising latifundia. 90 percent of the country's raw sugar and tobacco exports was sent to the USA. Before the Revolution, most Cuban children were not included in the school system. There was almost no machine-building industry in Cuba"
Куба (го�удар�тво) — БСЭ — Яндек�.Словари


75% of rural dwellings were huts made from palm trees.
More than 50% had no toilets of any kind.
85% had no inside running water.
91% had no electricity.
There was only 1 doctor per 2,000 people in rural areas.
More than one-third of the rural population had intestinal parasites.
Only 4% of Cuban peasants ate meat regularly; only 1% ate fish, less than 2% eggs, 3% bread, 11% milk; none ate green vegetables.
The average annual income among peasants was $91 (1956), less than 1/3 of the national income per person.
45% of the rural population was illiterate; 44% had never attended a school.
25% of the labor force was chronically unemployed.
1 million people were illiterate ( in a population of about 5.5 million).
27% of urban children, not to speak of 61% of rural children, were not attending school.
Racial discrimination was widespread.
The public school system had deteriorated badly.

The GULLY | Americas | CUBA | What Castro Found

really couldnt care about life expentancy considering they are dirt poor and starving with almost no medical care.
If they are "dirt poor" and "starving" then explain to me how they live so long? Please cmon...
"In the first place, you say that in Cuba we “starve on a diet of lies.” It is hard to believe that one could starve where the population has a life expectancy of 78, the highest in Latin America, similar to the index in your powerful country and surpassed by very few countries worldwide. The infant mortality index in Cuba at the end of 2008 was 4.7 for every 1000 births (compared to 6/1000 in your country). Worldwide there are nearly a billion people going hungry. If you do the proper research you will see that none of these are Cuban. None of us, “hungry Cubans”
Response to an article by Dennis Avery titled "Cubans Starve on a Diet of Lies" | Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy
 
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Cuba is not going away. Until we actually want to have a discussion with them that is the day we can move forward on this issue. Cuba si!

Can I ask you a question? I have a lot of left wing friends, and quite a few self declared Socialists of varying schools of thought. My issue (in addition to many other things) has been when the conversation shifts to Cuba there doesn't seem to be any honest introspection with regards to the almost unwavering support for Castro and the Cuban government. I think we can both agree the island functions more or less as a familial dictatorship, has widespread issues with political prisoners, and endemic social problems that are exacerbated by corruption and the corralling of power by the elites. But they fly to the defense of Cuba almost as an instinct. They don't specify that they believe Cuba is evidence that state capitalism on some scale can work, or that its healthcare system is a superior example of what a socialist mindset and planning can accomplish. Instead they jump to an immediate and passionate defense of the regime itself, almost always coupled with irrelevant denunciations of the United States.

My question is, and I know I've been a little circuitous, is why defend Cuba? One can believe the US treats with Cuba unfairly, that the US has a negative and aggressive foreign policy, and that Cuba has many successful institutions. I'm not beginning to agree with that mind you, but lets say we accept them. You don't need to defend the Cuban regime to believe or assert any of those things. It sacrifices so much moral legitimacy to defend it.
 
My question is, and I know I've been a little circuitous, is why defend Cuba?

I defend what Cuba is. I defend them and their revolution because they have chosen their own path. I defend the great strides they have made with their social services and their charitable services they offer to help third world countries; not through force, but through peaceful means such as doctors etc. I defend them because of their fight of dealing with US imperialism and US terrorism on their country. I defend their strides of creating a more just society socially. I also defend the grassroots democracy initiatives that have been undertaken by Cuba since the revolution, such as the right to workers to organize in worker assemblies and decide decisions at the workplace and worker parliaments. I defend Castro as a beacon of hope for much of Latin America and appreciate what he has done fro Cuba but i will not defend the authoritarian nature. However saying that i still believe there is hope in Cuba, and see that Castro is a popular leader in his country. But i do not see Cuba as a "familia" runned operation. The Cuban government is much more complex than just the Castro brothers. There is democracy in Cuba, there is just a different kind of democracy. True its not the Liberal US democracy, but it is a different kind of democracy. There are elections in Cuba but it is a single party state but there area also many independents in the National Assembly of Peoples Power. But as a stated ealier i dont believe its a familia operation. I think i now where you are goin gwith that because Fidel was first now its Raul. But Raul was second in command. It will be interesting to see where it goes when Raul passes on. But as listed as stated above, i hope that answers "why cuba"
 
To those people critisising Cuba ...

You compare Cuba to comperable countries ... like the rest of the carribian or Latin America, compared to those countries Cuba is doing quite well, yeah its not as wealthy or doing so well as the first world, but thats because its not IN the first world ... but its gotten a lot better, especially compared to the other countries in the region.

As far as it being democratic ... yeah they have local elections and at the local level its way more democratic than say the US, but when it comes to the big decisions ... its not really that democratic ...

I don't think Cuba is gonna last personally, there is just too much money to be made, I was very very plesantly suprised when more cooperatives were set up, and I mean ACTUAL independant cooperatives (not state cooperatives).

What I hope for in Cuba is that hte becomes more and more democratic (not in a western way , but in an actual participatory way), and the economy becomes more and more actual socialstic (i.e. people controling their own affairs, not state capitalism).

What Cuba did for latin America is indispensable, they showed that you can fight against American Imperialism and not only win but do well ... THAT is the real reason the US fights against Cuba, its because they showed that independance is possible, it has nothing to do with human rights or whatever (honestly, who really believes that the US has ever cared about human rights in international politics ... Saudi Arabia ... Indonesia ... Khazakstan ... and so on and so forth), The reforms that happen in Cuba need to be done delicately, I am all for taking the power away from the state and giving it to the people, but not for opening it up to monied interests and corporate power, and along with the economic reforms you need political reforms.

That being said, American patriots need to get off their high horses, get your democracy in order first, also **** on Cubas economy all you want, they are doing better than countries in the region that stuck with American subservience.
 
Kidding me right?


"Prior to the Cuban Revolution, Cuba had a one-crop economy whose domestic market was constricted. Its population was characterized by chronic unemployment and deep poverty. United States monopolies like Bethlehem Steel Corporation and Speyer gained control over Cuba's national resources, from which they made huge profits. The banks and the country's entire financial system, all electric power production, and most industry was dominated by US capital. US monopolies owned 25 percent of the best land in Cuba, and more than 80 percent of all farm lands were occupied by sugar and livestock-raising latifundia. 90 percent of the country's raw sugar and tobacco exports was sent to the USA. Before the Revolution, most Cuban children were not included in the school system. There was almost no machine-building industry in Cuba"
Куба (гоÑ�ударÑ�тво) — БСÐ* — ЯндекÑ�.Словари


75% of rural dwellings were huts made from palm trees.
More than 50% had no toilets of any kind.
85% had no inside running water.
91% had no electricity.
There was only 1 doctor per 2,000 people in rural areas.
More than one-third of the rural population had intestinal parasites.
Only 4% of Cuban peasants ate meat regularly; only 1% ate fish, less than 2% eggs, 3% bread, 11% milk; none ate green vegetables.
The average annual income among peasants was $91 (1956), less than 1/3 of the national income per person.
45% of the rural population was illiterate; 44% had never attended a school.
25% of the labor force was chronically unemployed.
1 million people were illiterate ( in a population of about 5.5 million).
27% of urban children, not to speak of 61% of rural children, were not attending school.
Racial discrimination was widespread.
The public school system had deteriorated badly.

The GULLY | Americas | CUBA | What Castro Found


If they are "dirt poor" and "starving" then explain to me how they live so long? Please cmon...
"In the first place, you say that in Cuba we “starve on a diet of lies.” It is hard to believe that one could starve where the population has a life expectancy of 78, the highest in Latin America, similar to the index in your powerful country and surpassed by very few countries worldwide. The infant mortality index in Cuba at the end of 2008 was 4.7 for every 1000 births (compared to 6/1000 in your country). Worldwide there are nearly a billion people going hungry. If you do the proper research you will see that none of these are Cuban. None of us, “hungry Cubans”
Response to an article by Dennis Avery titled "Cubans Starve on a Diet of Lies" | Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy

okyour sources are clearly biased or used turn of the century standards to define pre communist cuba,you can lie and twist it all you want,what you cant defy is cuba was one of the wealthiest countries pre castro and is now the poorest among latin america.

 
To those people critisising Cuba ...

You compare Cuba to comperable countries ... like the rest of the carribian or Latin America, compared to those countries Cuba is doing quite well, yeah its not as wealthy or doing so well as the first world, but thats because its not IN the first world ... but its gotten a lot better, especially compared to the other countries in the region.

As far as it being democratic ... yeah they have local elections and at the local level its way more democratic than say the US, but when it comes to the big decisions ... its not really that democratic ...

I don't think Cuba is gonna last personally, there is just too much money to be made, I was very very plesantly suprised when more cooperatives were set up, and I mean ACTUAL independant cooperatives (not state cooperatives).

What I hope for in Cuba is that hte becomes more and more democratic (not in a western way , but in an actual participatory way), and the economy becomes more and more actual socialstic (i.e. people controling their own affairs, not state capitalism).

What Cuba did for latin America is indispensable, they showed that you can fight against American Imperialism and not only win but do well ... THAT is the real reason the US fights against Cuba, its because they showed that independance is possible, it has nothing to do with human rights or whatever (honestly, who really believes that the US has ever cared about human rights in international politics ... Saudi Arabia ... Indonesia ... Khazakstan ... and so on and so forth), The reforms that happen in Cuba need to be done delicately, I am all for taking the power away from the state and giving it to the people, but not for opening it up to monied interests and corporate power, and along with the economic reforms you need political reforms.

That being said, American patriots need to get off their high horses, get your democracy in order first, also **** on Cubas economy all you want, they are doing better than countries in the region that stuck with American subservience.

i guess maybe bolivia is poorer,and venezuela is competing.cuba went from being an exporter of crops to an importer,went from having modern infrastructure being comparible to new york city to looking like the poorest regions of africa and india after comunism took over.

how can anyone defend going from driving a cadillac and having a nice apartment to using a donkey and living in a house thats roof will collapse.also having no medicine due in ppart to the embargo and also in part to his stance against socialist pigs.
 
How about Castro holds real elections for the people of Cuba?

I agree with you that Castro should hold more open elections, but what would be the point for Castro? If Castro allies won the election the U.S. would take that as proof the elections were unfair. If you think the U.S. really cares about democratic change in Cuba you're not living in reality. If you study Cuban history you will realize that even Castro hasn't done as much to prevent Cuban democracy than the U.S. has. Seriously, Cuba started its life as an independent nation with the U.S. literally writing its own authority into the Cuban constitution. Castro replaced the even more brutal dictator Batista who the U.S. supported nonetheless.

And don't think all of that is just a thing of the past. In 2002 the U.S. supported the Venezuela coup where right wing forces got into power only to immediately dissolve every democratically elected body at the national level (even though they were internationally recognized as being fairly elected). Even today you need to look at the countries we support like Saudi Arabia, which make the Castro's look like raging liberals.

The embargo has never been democracy and it never will be. No one outside of the U.S. misses the hypocrisy of the U.S. calling for greater democracy in Cuba.
 
i guess maybe bolivia is poorer,and venezuela is competing.cuba went from being an exporter of crops to an importer,went from having modern infrastructure being comparible to new york city to looking like the poorest regions of africa and india after comunism took over.

how can anyone defend going from driving a cadillac and having a nice apartment to using a donkey and living in a house thats roof will collapse.also having no medicine due in ppart to the embargo and also in part to his stance against socialist pigs.

It was an exporter of crops because the US was its main and natural consumer ...

Also its has much better living standards than it did before ....

Also they have better healthcare than the United States ....

Also Venezuela nad Bolivia have cut their poverty significantly, the central american countries (sticking with US policy) and Colombia and teh such are going the other direction ...
 
It was an exporter of crops because the US was its main and natural consumer ...

Also its has much better living standards than it did before ....

Also they have better healthcare than the United States ....


Also Venezuela nad Bolivia have cut their poverty significantly, the central american countries (sticking with US policy) and Colombia and teh such are going the other direction ...

you talking about cuba still????cuz the video i posted proves that completely wrong,unless you are comparing 1859 cuba instead of 1959 cuba to castro cuba.

second their healthcare sucks.they have it seperated by tourists and high ranking members of the cuban govt,and the people.

Hospital Clnico Quirrgico

this site shows the hospitals of the socialist paradise,


on agriculture,cubas agriculture shown massive decline after castro,they had to export their crops at 5 times market value to russia and import fertilizer to maintain cuba due to gross inneffeciency of socialized agriculture.
 
okyour sources are clearly biased or used turn of the century standards to define pre communist cuba,
:lamo A LGBT magazine is most deferentially very biased towards this issue. :roll:
Look if you cant handle the facts how everyday life was for Cubans before Castro then get over it.

you can lie and twist it all you want,
What lies have i told again? Please remind me...

what you cant defy is cuba was one of the wealthiest countries pre castro and is now the poorest among latin america.
I believe your forgetting Haiti, Jamaica, Dominican Republic.....



I think that great film is missing a lot of facts.... Mostly the affects for the vast majority of Cubans...
 
:lamo A LGBT magazine is most deferentially very biased towards this issue. :roll:
Look if you cant handle the facts how everyday life was for Cubans before Castro then get over it.


What lies have i told again? Please remind me...


I believe your forgetting Haiti, Jamaica, Dominican Republic.....



I think that great film is missing a lot of facts.... Mostly the affects for the vast majority of Cubans...

dont like pictures and videos that show cuba not as palm trees pre castro?????????????????can you show me actual pictures of infrastructure with ACTUAL DATES not pre castro cuba with a varience of 350 years.


ok heres a good site for you,it shows pictures f all over cuba,pictures that dont depict a paradise,but depict below third world standards,substandard medical care,castro owning almost the entire countries wealth etc.

Hospital Clnico Quirrgico

HCQ2.jpg

and theres a pic of cubas fabulous medical system.


i can post many pictures defy everything you have just said,but its better to just read the link,as it has all the pictures.that is your socialist paradise,a country that looks not much better than haiti,has rampant poverty and many homeless,while fidel castro was rated as one of the richest leaders in the world.

edit:heres a link that compares pre castro cuba and post castro cuba.
http://ctp.iccas.miami.edu/FACTS_Web/Cuba%20Facts%20Issue%2043%20December.htm
 
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hey beerftw, I could show you the cut on my face from when I got mugged a few nights ago. Would that prove to you that the U.S. is a dangerous and criminal country?

You obviously have a disposition against Cuba no amount of evidence will overcome. So far you have said that pro-Cuban statistics must be biased, but didn't give any real reason why. However apparently you think random pictures can be nothing but representative of the whole Cuban system. As a Marxist I'm willing to accept whatever the evidence tells me about Cuba. When I first started looking at Cuba I was much more skeptical about it, but as I have seen more evidence and context it is seems that Cuba is a country that hasn't been as democratic as it should have been but has been relatively successful economically. If I see more evidence that contradicts the conception I have I'll change it accordingly.

You need to learn how to learn.
 
dont like pictures and videos that show cuba not as palm trees pre castro?????????????????
What?
I dont mind them. Cool Pre-Castro Cuba looked real pretty in Havana's in the ol Mafia districts. Real cool. Really stumped me there beerftw. So if you wanna talk about actual information and stats etc then maybe we should move away from the whole "look how pretty it looks" thing.

can you show me actual pictures of infrastructure with ACTUAL DATES not pre castro cuba with a varience of 350 years.
Yes.
"The main road into Baracoa was completed in the 1960s, whilst in the since the late 1980s, causeways have been built out to neighbouring cays in order to open them up for tourist development." AKA the Carretera de La Farola
Cuba-Junky | Baracoa
Carretera de La Farola in Baracoa | TouristEye

Various dams.
Presa Bueycito (Granma) - EcuRed
Presa Corojo - EcuRed
Presa Guisa - EcuRed
Presa La Yaya - EcuRed
Noti-CUTC

Social infrastructure: Rural Hospitals, and Rural schools expanding doctors.



ok heres a good site for you,it shows pictures f all over cuba,pictures that dont depict a paradise,but depict below third world standards,substandard medical care,castro owning almost the entire countries wealth etc.

Hospital Clnico Quirrgico

View attachment 67131789

and theres a pic of cubas fabulous medical system.


i can post many pictures defy everything you have just said,but its better to just read the link,as it has all the pictures.that is your socialist paradise,a country that looks not much better than haiti,has rampant poverty and many homeless,while fidel castro was rated as one of the richest leaders in the world.

Really?
You can post stats that reject the idea that Cubans live longer than us? You can post pictures that Cubans have the second most doctor to patient ratio? You can post pictures that Cuba has one of the lowest mortality rates?
 
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