A video worth watching, given both the unexplainable attraction of many Americans for Socialism, and Sen. Imbecile Sanders’ statements about positive aspects of Castro’s Cuba.

That is very sad.

Thank you for posting this.
I am sending it to a few “enlightened” relatives...

But Socialism is good, just ask Bernie

Yeah, just posted this on Facebook, sent to a "woke" friend.

I dated a Canadian girl back in my college days and the topic of travel and Cuba came up. I perked up and asked what was it like and she laughed. Oh you American's, clinging to this notion that Cuba is this exotic, tropical paradise like in the Godfather movies...the embargo is only with the US, everyone else can go there.

She had visited twice, and both times she said they stayed on an all-inclusive resort, populated by other Canadians and Europeans. Zero tourism industry, no restaurants, no sight-seeing, no shopping, food sucked, aggressive pan-handling if you stepped-off property so, nobody left. No clubs or, nightlife, the diving/fishing in the surrounding waters was all fished-out and reefs destroyed due to desperate fisherman.

In short, its not the US embargo that's resulted in Cuba's plight but, their own govt. They have access to the world market, however their political ideology prevents them from understanding what economic freedom and choice allows.

When I lived in Miami in the mid 60', I got all the info about Cuba that I needed from the Cubans who escaped Castro's henchmen.

Shithole. When it was opened to airlines we jumped on 3 cities. Flew empty airplanes to 2 of the 3. Nothing there anybody would want to see unless you had family there. Quickly dumped them, only fly to Havana now. I think it’s just a place keeper in case things ever pick up.

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Originally posted by corsair:
In short, its not the US embargo that's resulted in Cuba's plight but, their own govt. They have access to the world market, however their political ideology prevents them from understanding what economic freedom and choice allows.

I've argued this point with left-leaning acquaintances who whine about how the U.S. Embargo only hurts the "average" Cuban. They never have a response when I ask how unrestricted trade with the REST of the world has benefited the "average" Cuban.

Even if it's only symbolic, I'm good with any policy that keeps a single American greenback out of the regime's blood-stained communist hands.

Is this the video that shows that the average Cuban citizen scrapes by making $25 a day while Fidel died with $900,000,000 in the bank and his brother Raul is sitting on $100,000,000.

A few years ago while channel-surfing I stopped on a PBS station to watch an episode of "Globetrekker". The host was in Cuba for part of the show; bleak and dismal, empty. Second segment he was in Haiti. Haiti looked better, at least some of the people smiled.

I've followed life in Cuba since high school, when the Cuban expats accepted the white guy from Africa into their clique.

Nothing good has happened there in my lifetime, save for the death of Fidel.

The country is wrecked.

But if America changed our policy toward that imprisoned isle, capitalism would rip asunder the facade of the wonders of communism rickytickquick.

I’m at GTMO at the moment with a room overlooking the bay. I have been told that ships have gone through the bay to visit the Cuban port of Caimanera, but I have not seen a single non American vessel in the five weeks I’ve been here. A port city with no ships. Ain’t socialism grand

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Originally posted by 1s1k:
Is this the video that shows that the average Cuban citizen scrapes by making $25 a day while Fidel died with $900,000,000 in the bank and his brother Raul is sitting on $100,000,000.

NO, the average Cuban lives off of $20 a MONTH.

My BIL just returned from a jazz tour in Cuba...he is a musician.

TOTAL SHITHOLE...and my BIL is a lefty...starving artist...wants everything to be free.

I asked him..."how'd you like the real look at free shit socialism?"

Heh heh heh...

When Castro died in 2016 I was listening to a radio talk show when a pro Castro listener called in and mentioned that the reason he had so much money was because he was a shrewd investor.

I know a woman who escaped from Cuba to the US. She said that Cubans have no hope for the future. The only hope is to escape from Cuba. She was/is a Medical Doctor that made $25 a month in Cuba.
Rod

This is the only possible outcome of Sanders' plans. And actually it'd be worse than that as he would completely open the borders and allow anyone who manages to walk into the country to have free healthcare and free education (indoctrination). The good news I guess is that eventually all the illegals would flee when the country completely gets flushed down the toilet.

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Originally posted by sig sailor:
I know a woman who escaped from Cuba to the US. She said that Cubans have no hope for the future. The only hope is to escape from Cuba.

We have no where to escape to... this is
The Last Best Hope Of Man On Earth

A fellow I worked with left Cuba a few short years after Castro took power. As soon as he put in his papers requesting to leave, he was fired from his job at the phone company, picked up by police and transported to a stadium in Havana, There, he and others wanting to leave stayed for several weeks (in horrid conditions) before actually being allowed to depart. The day they left, his wrist watch and anything else of any remote value were seized by the authorities. He arrived in Miami with only the clothes oh his back. A true "Worker's Paradise"!