[Texas_Dawg]

The photos come from this article from DallasNews.com: http://www.dallasnews.com/world/cuba/stories/071203dnintcubaindians.9b013.html

These people probably did live this way even before Castro. But far more people live this way, 44 years later, than would had Castro not come along. Once Communism has fallen in Cuba, the economy and way of life will improve there, drastically, overnight.

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

I was only pulling your leg about the photo only because it looks like Panama...except the duck. Chickens are preferred here because they are pretty easy to maintain...except when a possum gets lose in the yard at night. With a few handfuls of rice tossed at them during the day, they spend the rest of the day running down bugs in the yard.

And yes, everybody is worse off with Castro no matter what their economic background was/is. That poor man still has to give a share of what ever he grows to the government. Certainly these people are worse off if that’s possible.