Posted on 04/26/2005 4:20:32 PM PDT by Roland5
Once considered one of the most beautiful cities in the world, Havana is today a city in ruins. This is the Havana that the tourists don't see, because the tourists stay in compounds where Cubans are not allowed to enter, but this is the Havana where the real Cubans live! And in addition to destroying Havana, Castro's stupidity, cruelty and mismanagement has destroyed the entire Cuban nation! Thousands of deaths, over 2,000,000 exiles, 46 years without the most elemental freedoms, 46 years without being able to choose their leaders in a free election, 46 years of suffering and sacrifices to end up like this!
(Excerpt) Read more at therealcuba.com ...
Behold the power of socialism....NOT!
Ah the wonders of Marxism.
Popular Bumper Sticker in Havana
"My Other Car is Also a Piece of Junk Made from the Parts Leftover after I built This One"
But Chevy Chase after visiting Fidel Casshole said "Communism works".
But, but, but...they have Universal Healthcare! [/idiot liberal]
Amazing photos. It looks rather like a tropical version of Detroit.
Or maybe not so funny.
A problem that takes only one sniper rifle and one bullet to solve.
One guy cannot produce communism.
It's a communist country, not one man holding several million folks prisoner.
Cuba's communism is not very different from europe's form of government in feudal days. The main difference is that is has a political face. The concept is still the same.
When Castro dies, it won't make much difference unless the people decide to make it so. But they could make it so under his rule if they really wanted to.
but they get a pound of chicken each, per month......free!
Yep, things sure were horrible before 1959 - back when the opressive capitalist pigs and yanqui imperialists, and all the evil US companies, were still in Cuba. How liberating is was when Fidel cast all the fascists out, and opened the door to the glory that is now Cuba. /sarcasm.
The web site has some magnificent pictures of Cuba 'B.C.'. It looks exotic, elegant, glamourous; a travel destination. Now it looks like a giant version of 'Starnesville' in Atlas Shrugged. Frightening to see what a poison like communism can do to a country. The same people, the same land, the same climate; but now purged of hope its very soul crushed.
But hey, Robert Redford, Steven Speilberg, and other Hollywood political crazies think Castro is a great guy!
"Amazing photos. It looks rather like a tropical version of Detroit."
Come on. Detroit never looked that good.
Venezuela's Hugo Chavez gives them oil at cut-rate prices. Canada's oil companies have a big presence in drilling offshore.
The lesson of communism is that it can't run a country effectively and that it's all about the oligarchy and not about the people.
Cuba's population should know that by now and their submissiveness is a big part of the problem.
When Chevy Chase plays a weak-minded fool, he's not acting.
Actually, Cuba WAS a developed country, with GDP higher than Belgium or Italy.
All these American cars we see were bought NEW.
It really make one cry when think what Castro has done to this paradise. Two harvests a year and the most of the people are hungry, as if living in a desert. Food scraps from tourist resorts are considered a feast, in other countries it would be given to pigs. Cubans are wonderful people. Regardless of abject powerty, one can not see the malicious or sullen face expressions one could see behind the Iron Curtain in the 1970s and 1980s.
Castro may serve as an example for a dictator hopefuls elsewhere. Securing long term American embargo is key element of a successful dictatorship. Without U.S. embargo, dictator business is risky and doomed, as numerous examples show. Castro would be bludgeoned to death for the crimes he committed long ago.
Once Castro's regime is over and Cuba is free, the MSM will show video of Havana crumbling and state: "This is what 40+ years of economic embargo did to a once proud and beautiful city"
Chile elected Salvador Allende, a communist, and that's somewhere near the south pole.
But, perpetually warm weather does fry your brain and make you lazy. At least it has done so to me.
Hasn't caused any commie tendencies that I've noticed. Been called a nazi a few times lately, but not a commie.
Think about it. Castro's/communism's control of Cuba, assured that the "retirement boom" would go to Fla. and not spill into the Caribbean area. Planned or an accident of planning? It kept a whole helava lot of $$$$ IN the US.!
Yeah but..the Canucks, Hanoi Jane, some Black Caucus members, the Euroweenies and the Hollyweirds love the place. How can they be so blind?
Funny, isn't it, how a system like communism pretends to be 'for the masses' but instead feeds the most self-centered grasping dictators. The more ruthless they are, the better the communist system works, for them. The 'masses' who they originally purported to serve, live on the edge of starvation. It is made more absurd in a place like Cuba where the land and climate should allow an abundance of food.
I'm sure most Cubans would like to see El Presidente gone; but without guns, without an open press, where even unauthorized meetings are forbidden; one lives as a slave.
The National Register of Historic Places can do nothing to save our cities. So money has left our downtowns in much the same way. I was in Idaho Falls last week. Felt like Cuba.
And what specifically would your idea be of "help"?
The Cuban dissidents are going to try to challenge Castro on May 20, 2005 in Havana. Please sign in in their web site supporting their patriotic effort. Talk to your friends, congressmen, send a letter to your local newspaper. The more people that know about this the more difficult will be for Castro to execute them on sigth.
Visit the following sites for more info:
http://www.asambleasociedadcivilcuba.info/index.htm
http://www.therealcuba.com/Page11.htm
The Cubans with hope and souls and personal drive either left or were killed after Castro got the reins. Much like how the best of Europe left or was killed in the stupidity of euro-wars. Only the weak and sheepled remain.
Cuba is Hillary's dream come true and is her vision for America should she get the chance. Let people be warned.
Mr. Gorbachev did not execute Nicolae Ceaucescu of Romania; the citizens did.
If the citizens of Cuba do not risk death by confronting their government, they will continue to have the one they currently have, regardless of who is the titular head.
They can have King George III or they can have George Washington. It's their choice, and only they can make it.
Thank you for your posts - those pictures and all that the Cuban people have suffered bring tears.
And it makes you brew monumentally bad beer, which Americans are often willing to pay ten bucks a six for. Never understood that.
Are you crazy? Subsidized illegitimacy, crime and Democrats have driven the "heart" out of all these places. No one wants to live in a cesspool if they don't have to.
Did you really look at those pictures of Cuba? How can you possibly say that any of the cities you mention look like that? I have spent plenty of time in downtown Salt Lake, it has some pretty good areas, it looks NOTHING like the squallor in those pictures.
You can count on it and they'll never bring up the fact Canada, EU, Mexico, South America, China and I think Australia don't have an embargo.
Nor will they bring up the fact that foreign companies in Cuba do not pay the employees directly. The money goes to Castro and he doles out about 10%.
I also don't think they will mention Castro's net worth about 1.5 billion.
Those pictures are amazing. I've been in two communist countries. They were awful but not that awful.
"...They can have King George III or they can have George Washington. It's their choice..."
Very well said.
Havana was quite a city at one time. I know missionaries who visit Cuba frequently. They say buildings collapse almost every day.
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Will someone please call Dan Rather, and tell him about these photos.
Dan will be so proud of this friend, Fidel, and how well he has taken care of this country and countrymen.
btt
Where is their modern-day Jose Marti?
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