The advances of the Cuban revolution
After 51 years of Castro's revolution, the video below from the St. Petersburg Times clearly shows the advances of the self-described socialist paradise.
In the article accompanying the video, the reporter describes the utter misery that these Cubans live in. From being one of the most advanced Latin American countries with a standard of living higher than some western European states in 1958, the Castro revolution has turned Cuba into a third-world hellhole. But the damage is not just to the infrastructure of the country -- the damage extends to the Cuban people themselves.
The story of one resident of this shantytown perfectly summarizes the harm Castro's revolution has inflicted on the Cuban citizen, which may take generations to repair.
The irony of it would be humorous if were not so sad.
"Here we get attention. We don't lack anything," said Agustín Gaínza, 50, who set up a pro-revolutionary block committee in her home. "We don't have the ration book, but we don't need it." Gaínza, who moved here from Guantánamo, said she ekes out a living illegally selling fruit juice at one peso (4 cents) a cup.
To this person, the revolution is wonderful and provides everything she needs. And by the way, she has illegal anti-revolutionary fruit juice for sale at one peso a cup.
You have to love the irony of Hasta Siempre, Comandante playing in the background.
If only the teenage Che-heads understood Spanish
Everyone has it equal. I wonder how many Americans in the most poverty stricken conditions would happily settle to have a life equal to the conditions of these people.
This is pathetic....these people have never known anything else. One lady is happy(?) that she can sell illegal fruit juice for 1 peso a cup. Yet she says that she has all she needs.
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What kind of idiots are these? Seems the great virtue of communism in spreading its misery equally certainly applies here.
[...] dissidents are still being jailed, beaten, or if they are lucky thrown out of the country, and that the economy is as crappy as ever, and nothing is being done to trade in the “Cuban model” for any other model. In other [...]