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To: blam
Raúl Castro's silence created tension, even as the media insisted he was "firmly at the helm".

Just as ABCNBCSeeBS would do if, say, Clinton had died doing Monica.

This is a particularly good and honest article. Not published in the USA, of course.

When we were in Cuba in '99, we traveled to the eastern city of Pinar del Rio on an "official" tour bus. Once there, friend and I walked away from the group. A block from the official stop, all buildings lacked paint, though those next to the official stop were brightly painted. Then a doddering little old man came up and showed us his asthma inhaler. "Look! Fidel gave this to me free!" There were armed soldiers watching him as he did his bit for Castro and tried to divert our attention from the wreckage of his town and his life. Thus, Cuban health care.

You'd better believe that Castro's doctors had guns to their heads while they operated. That's how Cuba works.

38 posted on 08/05/2006 8:19:30 PM PDT by Veto! (Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
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To: Veto!

Those people HAVE to play act for tourists, its called a Potemkin Village


48 posted on 08/05/2006 8:59:04 PM PDT by GeronL (http://www.mises.org/story/1975 <--no such thing as a fairtax)
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