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by debsmooth on February 18th, 2007

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Cuba? Communist Island Idyll OR oppressive experiment in collectivism gone awry? Also, what do you think will happen when Castro dies? Will a Cuban Glastnost occur or will things remain frosty with the USA's nearest communist neighboring state?

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  • by keithold is a prodigal bagger on February 18th, 2007

    keithold is a prodigal bagger

    G'day Debsmooth,

    Thank you for your question.

    Cuba has one of the worst records on human rights in Latin America over the past 40 years. Estimates of people killed in the period after the revolution range between 5,000 and 12,000. Cuba continues to deny basic human rights.

    As for things post-Fidel, Raul Castro seems firmly in charge and he is known as a hardliner. Further, the Cuban Government will receive assistance from Chavez in Venezuela and its financial situation is not as dire as it was ten years ago. While I hope things will improve for the long suffering Cubans, I am not optimistic.

    I have attached sources for your reference.

    Regards

    Human Rights in Cuba
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Cuba
    Time Magazine August 6 2006
    http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1223370,00.html
    Amnesty International
    http://www.amnestyusa.org/countries/cuba/document.do?id=ar&yr=2005
    The End of the Rule of Law (March 1959)
    http://www.fiu.edu/~fcf/castro_year1/castroyr1.ruleoflaw.html

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  • by Coconut1504 on May 15th, 2010

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    Castro's regime did nothing but betray, castrate, and forcefully drag a vivid and well-off republic into handcuffs and ruins while shamelessly saying to have done the total opposite. Yet, none of the pitiful destruction seen in Cuba was unintentional of his part, no less than Pol Pot killing all the educated people in Cambodia. Communists need to degrade and destroy to control and impose collective oppression and fear to maintain that control. Cuba (like any stalinist country) is a nation with no market economy and one full of scarcity ever since communism took over there in '59/'60, yet Castro has been there for half a century imposing the same thing to do no more than secure misery and a steady course into decay, despite the well being and true potential of the republic. Unintentional? "This revolution is eternal even if it takes us back to the stone age", Fidel Castro. Of course, in other words he said, I and my subordinates are more important than Cuba itself and we will stay in power at any cost. Granted, there is no such thing as a half century long revolution, much less an eternal one.

    As a result today much of Havana, formerly one of the most vivid and elegant cities in Latin America, looks like a dilapidated war zone. To give you some examples, in Castro's Cuba Cubans can't own private property, have normal bank accounts, own any post-1960 car without it being granted by the state (even if they have the money), develop their own agriculture, travel freely (even within Cuban provinces), access the internet, have cable, have freedom of speech, get a degree without serving the regime, etc. Hell, right up to 2008 entering tourist only areas, cell-phones, and DVDs were illegal. Until this very year, possessing cement was illegal. Of course Cuba is going to be in ruins. Now, why all this? Again, because it has worked for Castro and his accomplices for half a century, that's why. The nation may be a misery but rest assure party officials have big money and privileges that come trough a single, and controlled, authority. And for that very reason neither Fidel, nor his fagot brother, will change anything. Why would they.

    One must understand that all these communists leaders from Stalin, to Pol Pot, to Kim Jung-il, Mao, etc, are truly egomaniacs and sect leaders at national level that destroy all that is not controlled by them, related to them, or serving them, and rather impose a state of imposed misery to force dependency to use that imposed dependency as a control tactic. These people don't care about the well being of the republic or its prosperity but rather the well being of their control and regime (at the nation's and population's expense). In fact, their very system is a totalitarian one imposed over ALL aspects of the republic and civil society, it presents itself as the republic, and as more primordial than the republic itself.

    Scum like that does a lot of carefully analyzed ill to be able to retain power and will never leave power without lead, there is big money at the top of its hierarchy, there is a multi layered policed system of terror mostly run by people who they have worked and brainwashed since childhood, and as long as the free world continues to immorally finance Castro's slave-camp into a post Soviet profit for those still perpetuating it, his regime will continue. The US never did anything against such cancer; in fact, it stupidly played along its fraudulent bullshit and helped it get into power. Once the communist shit hit the fan as Batista said it would, the USA ran away and clearly allowed it to stay in power out of betrayal and stupidity. To think that US will help Cubans by this point, and under Obama (no less), is beyond illusive. Things will likely change once the Castros and Comapny die, but it won't be because of USA.

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  • by singwell-is off researching a lot on February 18th, 2007

    singwell-is off researching a lot

    I doubt that the many people who have died uder the Castro regime would call the country idyllic. Plus those who have perished through want of medical help. Or those who have had to flee. Hopefully a new leader will steer the country to wards a middle ground, given that this is the way that China is going, and China is Cuba's main ally.If that is the case, then there would be a thaw in the relationship between Cuba and the rest of the world, not just the US>

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  • by mike_70 on December 10th, 2011

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    Prostitution thrives in Cuba.

    http://network.nshp.org/profiles/blogs/youth-prostitution-feeding

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  • by richiehere on April 1st, 2009

    richiehere

    Now that Bush is gone and Obama is in charge there are bound to be improved relations with Cuba. The hard-line approach for the past 50 years has accomplished nothing. The Cuban people have suffered for decades. Prior to Castro, Batista the cruel American puppet did nothing except enrich the rich, then he looted the treasury and fled to Miami. In those days illiteracy was the norm, there was little education nor health care for the majority of Cubans. Cuba was well known as the whore house of the Caribbean. A few dissidents in Miami have controlled American policy towards Cuba for years and fortunately that is is fast coming an end. When it does, Americans can join the hundreds of thousands of Canadians, Europeans other nationalities who are so warmly welcomed by Cubans when we visit their wonderful country. As a side note, Bush has murdered more innocent people in eight years than Fidel Castro did in almost 50 years.

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