From Canada’s Embassy Magazine :
This week, Foreign Policy magazine, in its list of “the top 10 stories you missed in 2007,” identified one as the migration of more than 77,000 Cubans into the U.S.–more than twice the number that arrived during the record year of 1994.
The reason, says FP, is not political oppression or the Cuban economy, which is growing at a breakneck 11.1 per cent, but that fact that the wealth is not being shared.
“Young professional Cubans don’t see a future for themselves,” says a report on the migration by the by the University of Miami’s Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies.
I’m sorry to always be such a downer, but Sometimes….
Though it’s true the wealth isn’t being shared, Its well documented that Cuba’s way of measuring economic growth is as creative as the excuses they come up with for not providing services to the Cuban people. Not breakneck anything.
Not seeing a future for oneself is a direct cause of the oppression, lack of rights and institutionalized corruption that keeps everyone but the nomenklatura living at poverty levels.
What these young professionals want is a free market economy where their hard work and talents guarantee a future for themselves, unlike in Cuba where their hard work and talent garantees a priveledged future for the corrupt and despotic ruling class.
Excuse me, but is not the fact that the wealth isn’t being shared the direct result of political oppression and a crappy economy, where if it is growing, it is only in the pockets of the government goons?
The writer of the piece who came up with the reason for all that immigration is an IDIOTIC IMBECILE.
I don’t doubt the official figures on economic growth. The question is where is that growth coming from? Is it because of the productivity of the Cuban people or is it because of the ever increasing flow of cash from Venezuela.
Nothing from nothing is nothing…
– Billy Preston