Sunday, May 31, 2009

Pre-Castro Cuba

Just so we're all clear on this;



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6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Christ!

Anonymous said...

As a Canadian I was there several years ago. It is a shame to see how rundown and dilapidated conditions of the old part of the city. Anything built after Castro is block style soviet construction. The electrical infrastructure is pathetic at best(all resorts have a backup generator). What a waste. Welcome to socialism!!

Captain Capitalism said...

I just lament what Cuba could have become by today if the pieces of shit spoiled brat elitists hadn't turned it into the socialist morass it is now.

Who would visit Vegas when you could have Cuba? Could you imagine what that country would have become today if it had followed capitalism? forget the Cayman Islands, Havana would have been the cats meow in terms of jazz, commerce, you name it.

Alas, they too have their spoiled brat suburbanites.

Marty said...

You have to remember, Castro's revolution was simply a trade of one communist dictator for another. I went looking and could find only one elected right wing Cuban President, and his administration was respected but corrupt. The left had firm control of the island since its independence.

Alex said...

"Castro's revolution was simply a trade of one communist dictator for another"

The above sentence is the equivalent of saying "when I traded in my slingshot for a thermonuclear MIRV ICBM, I was just exchanging one weapon for another". You have to have a couple loose screws in order to equate "the left" and communism.

Marty said...

Alex, read your history, Batista was a communist. From wikipedia:

Batista, endorsed by the Communist Party of Cuba, won free elections in 1940 and served a four year term as President of Cuba.[4][5] During this time, Batista carried out major social reforms.[5] He launched economic regulations and pro-union policies.[6] Later, after staging a coup in 1952, Batista ruled as the nation's dictator.[7] He was backed by labor unions[8], communists[9],"

The early, liberal leaders of Cuba were mostly not communists, sure. But by the 1930's the country varied between communism and "the non-communist left" only for a little while until the Communists took over under Batista.