"When you're arguing with a fool, make sure he isn't doing the same thing."
Refer to this quote. Oh no, not for me, but for yourself.
So you are advising me not to argue with a fool?
Do you have any particular fool in mind??
Bon mots aside and back to the topic;
Castro's Cuba today.
CUBANOS FORCED BY STARVATION TO SELL THEIR CHILDREN AS SEX SLAVES JUST TO BE ABLE TO EAT.
June 5 - The US State Department released its 2008 Trafficking in Persons Report on Wednesday. Here is part of what it says about Cuba: "Cuba is principally a source country for women and children trafficked within the country for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation. Some families push child victims to prostitute themselves as a means of increasing family income. Cuban children and adults also may be exploited for forced labor. The full scope of trafficking within Cuba is difficult to gauge due to the closed nature of the government and sparse non-governmental or independent reporting. However, by all accounts, the country is a destination for sex tourism, including child sex tourism, which is a problem in many areas of the country. Cubas thriving sex trade caters to numerous European, Canadian, and Latin American tourists every year. State-run hotel workers, travel employees, cab drivers, and police steer tourists to prostituted women and children and facilitate their commercial sexual exploitation, sometimes extorting money or pay-offs from victims...... The Government of Cuba does not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking and is not making significant efforts to do so......No investigations or prosecutions of public officials for complicity with human trafficking were noted, although some police officers reportedly accept and solicit bribes in connection with Cubas sex trade."
(where was American nain stream media on that report????)
Read the expose on Cuban sham heath care in the above link.
Many Castro apologists try to justify the poverty in Cuba saying that you can find the same poverty in many other countries. But what these people do not say is that those other countries didn't have to suffer a revolution that caused tens of thousands of deaths, millions of refugees, the loss of all liberties, and that supposedly was needed in order to improve the life of ALL citizens.
After more than 47 years, there is much more poverty in Cuba than ever before. Except for Castro and his gang who are the new millionaires, the 11 million Cubans have to suffer the exploitation of the omnipotent state, rationed food, lack of housing and the indignity of being second class citizens in their own country.
It is the worse form of capitalism, the capitalism of the state.
But incredibly enough, there are some Latin American countries that want to copy this failed and obsolete system and there are even some moronic Americans who claim that we should imitate some of the things that Castro has done!
Remember too that Castro played a huge role in the tragedies in Africa by sending his troops to fight for every murdering marxist tyrant on the continent.
Just this week I watched a fluff piece on Cuba on the PBS network, what is it with these fools who try to portray Fidel as some sort of hero and not the murderous bastard that his record indicates????