[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.

[Texas_Dawg]

Yep. For one example, if this man was at least in a free economy, he could get another duck and breed some ducks behind his shack to sell in the market. This would at least provide him with a little extra money and someone else in town with some duck meat. But Cubans aren't even allowed to breed the chickens, pigs, and ducks that wander in and out of their huts. (I know, because I recommended this once only to be met with a room full of laughter at my naivete.)