Chavez wins 3rd term, vows to deepen socialist revolution

how is cuba better off with castro than someone else?

do you have evidence hugo's opposition is a US puppet?

The Cuban people are light years better off than they were with the US puppet Batista in office.

If you are anti-Cuba .. this is not a path you want to go down. The evidence is irrefutable.

Venezuelan elections: It’s either Chávez or Washington!

This Sunday’s elections will pit incumbent President Hugo Chávez Frías against neoliberal pro-US opposition candidate Henrique Capriles Radonski. Opinion polls vary widely both ways, proof it will be a head-to-head race.

*This election is not only of vital importance to Venezuela, but to all of Latin America, as Chávez has been a veritable barrier against traditional US interventionism in the region.

Get Chávez!

*That’s been the rallying call in the mainstream Western media, demonizing Chávez’s refusal to align Venezuela to the Western powers’ geopolitical objectives throughout the world, something the US and its allies find very hard to swallow.

That’s why they’ve put all their clout behind young up-start Henrique Capriles Radonski, as if he were a savior of democracy in Venezuela.

But that’s not quite the case when you consider that Capriles Radonski was very much involved in the failed US-backed coup in April 2002 to oust Chávez, and even spent a short spate in jail for it.

Chávez, in turn, is presented as “authoritarian and not democratic”. And yet, when he lost the 2007 constitutional reform referendum or the 2010 congressional elections, his government fully heeded the electorate’s will. No one today doubts that Sunday’s elections will be transparent and fair.

So why all the anger and fuss against Chávez?

To those who haven’t got the message yet: “It’s his foreign policy, Stupid!”

Irrespective of whether his domestic policies are good or bad, his foreign policies have held Venezuela’s sovereignty and self-esteem very high indeed, actively supporting all nations being savagely attacked by the US, UK, NATO or Israel.

Such is Venezuela’s support of the martyred peoples of Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, all flagrantly bombed, invaded and devastated by the Western powers based on outright lies, perverted distortions of the truth, and corporate greed to grab oil resources.

Today, the West targets Syria engineering internal strife and civil war as they already did in Iraq, Libya and other Muslim countries: in Orwellian Newspeak, the “Arab Spring”. They also threaten Iran with unilateral military attack and commit murder, sabotage and financial manipulation inside Iranian territory whilst spreading all sorts of global media lies.

Israel Über Alles!!

*It must be said: at the center of the “We Hate Chavez” movement is Israel, for here lies one of the clues to the sudden rise of Capriles Radonski.

Israel and the global Zionist Movement would love to greet him as Venezuela’s new president, and not just because he is Jewish on both his mother’s and father’s side – a rather surprising fact in a country of almost 30 million people, that has an extremely tiny Jewish community of 12,000 (0.03 per cent of the total population!!).

The real issue lies in the fact that he would join the global support-Israel-at-any-cost movement, in line with what already occurs in the US, UK, EU, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and even in Latin American countries like Mexico, Chile and even Argentina.

Here we must pause and make sure we don’t confuse politics with religion: not all Jews are Zionists; not all Zionists are Jews, Zionism being a fundamentalist political ideology of global reach and huge political and financial clout, whose militants come from a variety of religious faiths.

No one better than the United States’ Roman Catholic Vice-President Joe Biden who, on April 7, 2007, declared on Israel’s ShalomTV “You don’t have to be Jewish to be Zionist. I‘m a Zionist!”

Fine! So, yes, Capriles Radonski is in that same camp which is why Zionist media and money are staunchly supporting him.

For they will never forgive Chávez’s hosting Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Caracas, rendering him international political support in his fight against threats, aggression and the murder of his country’s politicians and scientists committed by CIA and Israeli Mossad assassins.

They will never forgive Chavez’s support for Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi, murdered on live TV by NATO-backed thugs to the boisterous laughter of Hilary Clinton.

They will never forgive Chavez’s support for the legitimate government of Syria in its fight against local and foreign terrorists financed, armed and trained by the US, Israel and UK, as openly stated by US Senator John McCain.

They will never forgive Chavez’s influence in Latin America, which inspired other countries to take an independent stance towards Iran, as the cases of Bolivia, Ecuador; even Brazil and Argentina show.

Clearly, Henrique Capriles Radonski is the absolute favorite of the US and its allies, and of the Zionist organizations and lobbies that reign over them.

The real goal: Conquer Venezuela!

*Whilst their very short-term goal is to defeat Hugo Chávez; the medium-term goal is to defeat Venezuela and, further ahead, their long-term goal is to defeat all of Latin America.

If Venezuela falls into the hands of Capriles Radonski and the Global Power Masters supporting him, he will then join forces with Colombia, whose pro-US President Juan Manuel Santos is a member of David Rockefellers “Americas Society” and its mega bankers. He will join forces with pro-US/UK regimes as Peña Nieto’s in México and Piñera’s in Chile.

A defeated Venezuela would become subordinate to the goals and objectives of the US and its partners, who are planning and starting to implement a “Latin American Spring”.

Capriles Radonski would become a milestone in such a “Spring” which, like its Arab counterpart, promotes Western powers’ hegemony over the entire region, promoting “regime change” in countries not fully aligned to them, their multinational corporations’ natural resources appetites, and their mega bankers’ greed.

Engineering social uprisings and civil wars is what “Democracy Made in USA” is now all about.

By the way, it’s no coincidence that this long-planned on-going process is now guaranteed by the powerful US Fourth South Atlantic Fleet, which Baby Bush reactivated in 2008 after it had been scrapped almost half a century ago.

Hugo Chávez understands this very well; so does Brazil, which is actively strengthening and modernizing is air and naval military forces. Only misgoverned and mismanaged countries like Argentina under Cristina Kirchner look the other way whilst all of this takes place right under their noses.

But that’s the kind of regime that “Democracy Made in USA” promotes in countries like Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, Honduras and Panama.

That’s the role that presidents like Kirchner, Menem, Uribe, Santos, Calderón and Zedillo are there to play: keeping their peoples ignorant and dumbed-down, throwing the ghastly masses of the poor a bone every now and then, whilst they and “friends” are all busy getting rich through corruption and embezzlement.

Most importantly, they always, always lend a willing ear to whatever messages emanate from “The Embassy” (of the US, or Israel, or the UK of course!)

Regarding Chavez’s health, boy oh boy how Washington, London and Tel Aviv would have loved for his cancer to take him out!!

Time and again Reuters, Fox News and The New York Times practically had him dead and buried, and yet the good doctors and treatment over in Cuba brought Chávez back to health. Maybe it’s because Merck, Abbott, Glaxo and the others are NOT in Havana? Poor Cuba: yet another country under decades of attack from Big Brother to the north.

Naturally, there’s still much to be done to improve social conditions in Venezuela; of course mistakes have been made, but above all Hugo Chávez has held up Venezuela’s honor and dignity and, by extension, that of Latin America as a whole, against common adversaries to the north.

Lucid, awakened and honorable Venezuelans know this but, as with all countries, there is also a massive deadweight of the population that will “vote with their wallets”, only catering to their own personal interests, whilst caring little or nothing for the common good.

Of the latter, Argentine President Juan Domingo Perón once said that “their most sensitive organ is their pocket…”

Let’s hope a majority of Venezuelans will be inspired to vote with a strong heart and a clear mind.
 
Historically, 25% inflation is actually somewhat low for Venezuela. In the 80's they experienced 30%-40% inflation, in the 90's 50%-60% with a peak at 100%. He has failed to reign it in, and it's somewhat difficult to see how he could pursuing his current policies. Perhaps they could try something like Brazil did with the Real, which was very successful. Often, inflation survives merely because people expect it to. You can sometimes sort of trick people into dropping that perception by having a stable "virtual currency" displayed around for a while, in comparison to the inflating one, and then finally introducing it.
 
The Cuban people are light years better off than they were with the US puppet Batista in office.

If you are anti-Cuba .. this is not a path you want to go down. The evidence is irrefutable.

Venezuelan elections: It’s either Chávez or Washington!

This Sunday’s elections will pit incumbent President Hugo Chávez Frías against neoliberal pro-US opposition candidate Henrique Capriles Radonski. Opinion polls vary widely both ways, proof it will be a head-to-head race.

*This election is not only of vital importance to Venezuela, but to all of Latin America, as Chávez has been a veritable barrier against traditional US interventionism in the region.

Get Chávez!

*That’s been the rallying call in the mainstream Western media, demonizing Chávez’s refusal to align Venezuela to the Western powers’ geopolitical objectives throughout the world, something the US and its allies find very hard to swallow.

That’s why they’ve put all their clout behind young up-start Henrique Capriles Radonski, as if he were a savior of democracy in Venezuela.

But that’s not quite the case when you consider that Capriles Radonski was very much involved in the failed US-backed coup in April 2002 to oust Chávez, and even spent a short spate in jail for it.

Chávez, in turn, is presented as “authoritarian and not democratic”. And yet, when he lost the 2007 constitutional reform referendum or the 2010 congressional elections, his government fully heeded the electorate’s will. No one today doubts that Sunday’s elections will be transparent and fair.

So why all the anger and fuss against Chávez?

To those who haven’t got the message yet: “It’s his foreign policy, Stupid!”

Irrespective of whether his domestic policies are good or bad, his foreign policies have held Venezuela’s sovereignty and self-esteem very high indeed, actively supporting all nations being savagely attacked by the US, UK, NATO or Israel.

Such is Venezuela’s support of the martyred peoples of Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, all flagrantly bombed, invaded and devastated by the Western powers based on outright lies, perverted distortions of the truth, and corporate greed to grab oil resources.

Today, the West targets Syria engineering internal strife and civil war as they already did in Iraq, Libya and other Muslim countries: in Orwellian Newspeak, the “Arab Spring”. They also threaten Iran with unilateral military attack and commit murder, sabotage and financial manipulation inside Iranian territory whilst spreading all sorts of global media lies.

Israel Über Alles!!

*It must be said: at the center of the “We Hate Chavez” movement is Israel, for here lies one of the clues to the sudden rise of Capriles Radonski.

Israel and the global Zionist Movement would love to greet him as Venezuela’s new president, and not just because he is Jewish on both his mother’s and father’s side – a rather surprising fact in a country of almost 30 million people, that has an extremely tiny Jewish community of 12,000 (0.03 per cent of the total population!!).

The real issue lies in the fact that he would join the global support-Israel-at-any-cost movement, in line with what already occurs in the US, UK, EU, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and even in Latin American countries like Mexico, Chile and even Argentina.

Here we must pause and make sure we don’t confuse politics with religion: not all Jews are Zionists; not all Zionists are Jews, Zionism being a fundamentalist political ideology of global reach and huge political and financial clout, whose militants come from a variety of religious faiths.

No one better than the United States’ Roman Catholic Vice-President Joe Biden who, on April 7, 2007, declared on Israel’s ShalomTV “You don’t have to be Jewish to be Zionist. I‘m a Zionist!”

Fine! So, yes, Capriles Radonski is in that same camp which is why Zionist media and money are staunchly supporting him.

For they will never forgive Chávez’s hosting Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Caracas, rendering him international political support in his fight against threats, aggression and the murder of his country’s politicians and scientists committed by CIA and Israeli Mossad assassins.

They will never forgive Chavez’s support for Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi, murdered on live TV by NATO-backed thugs to the boisterous laughter of Hilary Clinton.

They will never forgive Chavez’s support for the legitimate government of Syria in its fight against local and foreign terrorists financed, armed and trained by the US, Israel and UK, as openly stated by US Senator John McCain.

They will never forgive Chavez’s influence in Latin America, which inspired other countries to take an independent stance towards Iran, as the cases of Bolivia, Ecuador; even Brazil and Argentina show.

Clearly, Henrique Capriles Radonski is the absolute favorite of the US and its allies, and of the Zionist organizations and lobbies that reign over them.

The real goal: Conquer Venezuela!

*Whilst their very short-term goal is to defeat Hugo Chávez; the medium-term goal is to defeat Venezuela and, further ahead, their long-term goal is to defeat all of Latin America.

If Venezuela falls into the hands of Capriles Radonski and the Global Power Masters supporting him, he will then join forces with Colombia, whose pro-US President Juan Manuel Santos is a member of David Rockefellers “Americas Society” and its mega bankers. He will join forces with pro-US/UK regimes as Peña Nieto’s in México and Piñera’s in Chile.

A defeated Venezuela would become subordinate to the goals and objectives of the US and its partners, who are planning and starting to implement a “Latin American Spring”.

Capriles Radonski would become a milestone in such a “Spring” which, like its Arab counterpart, promotes Western powers’ hegemony over the entire region, promoting “regime change” in countries not fully aligned to them, their multinational corporations’ natural resources appetites, and their mega bankers’ greed.

Engineering social uprisings and civil wars is what “Democracy Made in USA” is now all about.

By the way, it’s no coincidence that this long-planned on-going process is now guaranteed by the powerful US Fourth South Atlantic Fleet, which Baby Bush reactivated in 2008 after it had been scrapped almost half a century ago.

Hugo Chávez understands this very well; so does Brazil, which is actively strengthening and modernizing is air and naval military forces. Only misgoverned and mismanaged countries like Argentina under Cristina Kirchner look the other way whilst all of this takes place right under their noses.

But that’s the kind of regime that “Democracy Made in USA” promotes in countries like Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, Honduras and Panama.

That’s the role that presidents like Kirchner, Menem, Uribe, Santos, Calderón and Zedillo are there to play: keeping their peoples ignorant and dumbed-down, throwing the ghastly masses of the poor a bone every now and then, whilst they and “friends” are all busy getting rich through corruption and embezzlement.

Most importantly, they always, always lend a willing ear to whatever messages emanate from “The Embassy” (of the US, or Israel, or the UK of course!)

Regarding Chavez’s health, boy oh boy how Washington, London and Tel Aviv would have loved for his cancer to take him out!!

Time and again Reuters, Fox News and The New York Times practically had him dead and buried, and yet the good doctors and treatment over in Cuba brought Chávez back to health. Maybe it’s because Merck, Abbott, Glaxo and the others are NOT in Havana? Poor Cuba: yet another country under decades of attack from Big Brother to the north.

Naturally, there’s still much to be done to improve social conditions in Venezuela; of course mistakes have been made, but above all Hugo Chávez has held up Venezuela’s honor and dignity and, by extension, that of Latin America as a whole, against common adversaries to the north.

Lucid, awakened and honorable Venezuelans know this but, as with all countries, there is also a massive deadweight of the population that will “vote with their wallets”, only catering to their own personal interests, whilst caring little or nothing for the common good.

Of the latter, Argentine President Juan Domingo Perón once said that “their most sensitive organ is their pocket…”

Let’s hope a majority of Venezuelans will be inspired to vote with a strong heart and a clear mind.

i don't see anything there that shows his opposition is a US puppet. what i've read of the guy is that he anything but a US puppet.

cuba's are not better off under fidel and i'm sure the hundreds of thousands who come here would disagree with you.
 
not saying it wasn't a big margin...rather, shows that chavez's support is waning. and since he can perpetually be elected, i think it says something about his future chances.

as to a mandate, i don't really consider that margin to be a mandate. they you refer to are the left media.

Well, often people refer to the electoral college when they want to claim a mandate, because the winner take all nature of the institution tends to exaggerate leads. So, while he did OK in the popular vote, he won a 2:1 landslide in the EC.
 
i don't see anything there that shows his opposition is a US puppet. what i've read of the guy is that he anything but a US puppet.

cuba's are not better off under fidel and i'm sure the hundreds of thousands who come here would disagree with you.

I can't account for what you can't see.

If you'd like to compare the Cuba of Castro to the Cuba of Batista and the US mafia .. be my guest. :0)

Be forewarned, you'll be soundly spanked.

But by all means .. be my guest.
 
I can't account for what you can't see.

If you'd like to compare the Cuba of Castro to the Cuba of Batista and the US mafia .. be my guest. :0)

Be forewarned, you'll be soundly spanked.

But by all means .. be my guest.

straw man. i never compared cuba to the short term dictator. your claim of US mafia is just speculation. i nothing in your link showed his opposition is a US puppet. perhaps you can highlight exactly what you think the evidence is.

like i said, you can disagree with the hundreds of thousands of people who have fled cuba. somehow i don't think you have ever lived in cuba, so the evidence of so many leaving shows life isn't peachy or better under castro.

In 1953, Cuba was 22nd among the world's nations in the number of doctors per capita, with 128.6 for each 100 thousand inhabitants.

The mortality rate was 5.8 -third lowest in the world-, while the mortality rate of the United States was 9.5 and that of Canada 7.6.

Towards the end of the 50s, the island had the lowest infant mortality rate of Latin America, with 3.76, followed by Argentina with 6.11, Venezuela with 6.56, and Uruguay with 7.30, as per data provided by the World Health Organization.

http://www2.fiu.edu/~fcf/cubaprecastro21698.html
 
Don't righties like to claim that most Cubans who came to the US were criminals expelled by Castro?
 
Don't righties like to claim that most Cubans who came to the US were criminals expelled by Castro?

Is that a claim that the right likes to make? When Castro decided to open up emigration, a great deal of people did so. And in the middle of this, Castro got spiteful and decided to throw a bunch of criminals into the mix. Of course, this seems to have been aided by the fact that Cuban emigrants get automatic permanent residency status the moment they enter the US, a really sweet deal that no immigrants from any other nation get. A great deal of people in general want to go to the US. If you'll notice, lot's of Mexicans quite happily go to the US anyway without such an arrangement.
 
straw man. i never compared cuba to the short term dictator. your claim of US mafia is just speculation. i nothing in your link showed his opposition is a US puppet. perhaps you can highlight exactly what you think the evidence is.

like i said, you can disagree with the hundreds of thousands of people who have fled cuba. somehow i don't think you have ever lived in cuba, so the evidence of so many leaving shows life isn't peachy or better under castro.

In 1953, Cuba was 22nd among the world's nations in the number of doctors per capita, with 128.6 for each 100 thousand inhabitants.

The mortality rate was 5.8 -third lowest in the world-, while the mortality rate of the United States was 9.5 and that of Canada 7.6.

Towards the end of the 50s, the island had the lowest infant mortality rate of Latin America, with 3.76, followed by Argentina with 6.11, Venezuela with 6.56, and Uruguay with 7.30, as per data provided by the World Health Organization.

http://www2.fiu.edu/~fcf/cubaprecastro21698.html

LAUGHABLE :0)

Batista Cuba
excerpts

"... after a series of events that lead to his leadership, he (Batista) soon found a way to take total control. Under Batista Cuba saw an extreme rise in crime, a connection to the United States mob, and a serious issue of poverty among citizens while leaders only became richer.

When Batista took control in 1952, he certainly had a big impact on the economy of Cuba. It was during this time that Batista formed ties with the United States mafia, welcoming them to Cuba and even offering incentives for people to open large gambling casinos. Depending largely on the mob to provide monetary gain, Batista continued to take bribes and welcome the business. During this time, he only became richer while the Cuban economy continued to suffer.

Prostitution also became prolific since brothels and prostitutes could easily seek support and protection from the Cuban government via bribery. The number of prostitutes was estimated at 14,000.

During the dictatorship of Batista, it became obvious that the economy was in a downward spiral. The poor people only suffered more, and the leaders, specifically the dictator himself, became extremely rich. Living conditions were third world for the common Cuban citizen, and crime was on the rise. It is no surprise that a group of revolutionaries would soon begin to find a way to overthrow the regime. The Cuban Revolution was born.
http://www.havana-guide.com/batista-cuba.html

CUBA'S CAPONES
Top Dogs in Batista's Casinos
http://cuban-exile.com/doc_176-200/doc0190.html

Cuba Under the U.$.-Backed Dictator Batista

- Americans owned 70 % of the arable land

- 1% of the population controlled 46 % of the wealth

- Batista's goons and secret police killed 20,000 Cubans (tortured even more)

- 40 % of the population were illiterate

- 50 % of the population lived in Bohio shacks

- Dissidents were hung and left to dangle in the streets as a warning sign

- The Mafia (Meyer Lansky & Co) ran Havana and used Cuba as a whorehouse for rich gringos from the U.S.

.... These are the conditions that allowed Fidel and Che to rise to power

"Fulgencio Batista murdered 20,000 Cubans in seven years ... and he turned Democratic Cuba into a complete police state - destroying every individual liberty. Yet our aid to his regime, and the ineptness of our policies, enabled Batista to invoke the name of the United States in support of his reign of terror. Administration spokesmen publicly praised Batista - hailed him as a staunch ally and a good friend - at a time when Batista was murdering thousands, destroying the last vestiges of freedom, and stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from the Cuban people, and we failed to press for free elections."

— U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy, October 6, 1960


"I believe that there is no country in the world including any and all the countries under colonial domination, where economic colonization, humiliation and exploitation were worse than in Cuba, in part owing to my country’s policies during the Batista regime. I approved the proclamation which Fidel Castro made in the Sierra Maestra, when he justifiably called for justice and especially yearned to rid Cuba of corruption. I will even go further: to some extent it is as though Batista was the incarnation of a number of sins on the part of the United States. Now we shall have to pay for those sins. In the matter of the Batista regime, I am in agreement with the first Cuban revolutionaries. That is perfectly clear."

— U.S. President John F. Kennedy, interview with Jean Daniel, October 24, 1963


The Cuban Literacy Campaign (Spanish: Campaña Nacional de Alfabetización en Cuba) was a year-long effort to abolish illiteracy in Cuba after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution.[1] It began on January 1 and ended on December 22, 1961, becoming the world's most ambitious and organized literacy campaign.[2][3]

Cuban Literacy Campaign

Before 1959 the official literacy rate for Cuba was between 60-76%, with educational access in rural areas and a lack of instructors the main determining factor.[4] As a result, the Cuban government of Fidel Castro at Che Guevara's behest dubbed 1961 the "year of education", and sent "literacy brigades" out into the countryside to construct schools, train new educators, and teach the predominately illiterate Guajiros (peasants) to read and write. The campaign was "a remarkable success", and by the completion of the campaign, 707,212 adults were taught to read and write, raising the national literacy rate to 96%
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Literacy_Campaign

Fidel Castro's Achievements in Cuba

For the decades leading up to the Cuban Revolution in 1959, Cuba was little more than a playground for wealthy US bankers, corporations and tourists who thrived off the unrestricted access to alcohol, drug-trafficking, gambling and prostitution.

However, after Fidel Castro and his rebel army overthrew the US-Batista regime amidst a wave of popular national revolt all that changed.

Cuba Before the Revolution

Prior to Fidel Castro taking power, life for the masses of Cubans was a misery. 600,000 Cubans were without work. Half-a-million farmers lived in Dickensian shacks. Most worked four months of the year and starved the rest.

The 400,000 or so industrial workers owned by the Capitalist classes faced pay reductions or dismissal. The average annual income was $91.25. Life expectancy for the average Cuban was only 59 years whilst infant mortality stood at 60 per 1,000 live deaths.

Whilst foreign millionaires lapped up sybaritic and schmancy lifestyles in the capital Havana, only 11% of rural Cubans drank milk, 2% had running water, 14% had tuberculosis and 43% were illiterate. Fidel Castro would soon change that.

Soon after the Revolution the new government sought to improve living conditions for the ordinary Cuban people.

One of the first things Fidel Castro did as President was to slash medicine prices and commence a road building programme.

Casinos were also taken over and used for schools whilst in March 1959, the Cuban Telephone Company, a lackey of the US company ITT, was taken over and rates reduced.

State education was immeasurably expanded and a literacy campaign was launched. So successful was it that within one year illiteracy was eradicated in Cuba.

In May 1959, the First Agrarian Reform Laws were launched and Castro’s policy redistributed land owned by US companies to small farmers and landless rural workers.

In earnest, Castro sought to end decades of imperialist and economic domination by ridding Cuba of underdevelopment and building the revolution.

Women in Cuba

Before the revolution women in Cuba made up only 9.8% of the workforce. Many were prostitutes, abortion was illegal and contraception barely existed.

In the wake of this, Fidel Castro set up The Federation of Cuban Women (FMC). In addition, the Family Code, 1975, enshrined equality between men and women in law.

Today women in Cuba constitute almost 50% of the workforce and 62% of Cuban technical, medical and scientific professionals are women

Cuban Healthcare

As Michael Moore’s documentary ‘Sicko’ proved, Cuba has a healthcare system alongside the very best in the world.

In fact, the average Cuban today will live longer than the average American. According to the World Health Organization (2006), Cuba has a doctor to patient ratio of 1 to 170; which as of 2008, was the second best on the planet.

In 1998, Fidel Castro himself won the Health For All award from the WHO for his achievements in healthcare.
http://suite101.com/article/fidel-castros-achievements-a213127

I could go on and on. Today, Cuba has one of the best healthcare systems on the planet, it has eradicated illiteracy, and the Cuban people enjoy tremendous improvements in their quality of life measures.

You keep mentioning that thousands have left Cuba for the US .. seemingly unaware that millions remain.

More mexicans have come to the US than Cubans.

It isn't like I didn't warn you that you didn't know what you were talking about.
 
Didn't some conservatives consider Gaddafi a Bush success story?

Yeah, the same ones that viewed Saddam as a success story .. and before that, viewed Noriega as a success story.

I'm sure many leaders have caught on that they don't want to be viewed as a success story in the eyes of American conservatives.

It's like the kiss of death.
 
who said saddam was a success story? who said noriega was a success story?

i'm curious where you get these wild theories BAC.
 
who said saddam was a success story? who said noriega was a success story?

i'm curious where you get these wild theories BAC.

I was wondering the same thing about you.

Wrong about Chavez, wrong about Castro.

Wanna try Gaddafi?

I'm right about them because I seek truth.

Bullshit tastes nasty.
 
LAUGHABLE :0)

Batista Cuba
excerpts

"... after a series of events that lead to his leadership, he (Batista) soon found a way to take total control. Under Batista Cuba saw an extreme rise in crime, a connection to the United States mob, and a serious issue of poverty among citizens while leaders only became richer.

When Batista took control in 1952, he certainly had a big impact on the economy of Cuba. It was during this time that Batista formed ties with the United States mafia, welcoming them to Cuba and even offering incentives for people to open large gambling casinos. Depending largely on the mob to provide monetary gain, Batista continued to take bribes and welcome the business. During this time, he only became richer while the Cuban economy continued to suffer.

Prostitution also became prolific since brothels and prostitutes could easily seek support and protection from the Cuban government via bribery. The number of prostitutes was estimated at 14,000.

During the dictatorship of Batista, it became obvious that the economy was in a downward spiral. The poor people only suffered more, and the leaders, specifically the dictator himself, became extremely rich. Living conditions were third world for the common Cuban citizen, and crime was on the rise. It is no surprise that a group of revolutionaries would soon begin to find a way to overthrow the regime. The Cuban Revolution was born.
http://www.havana-guide.com/batista-cuba.html

CUBA'S CAPONES
Top Dogs in Batista's Casinos
http://cuban-exile.com/doc_176-200/doc0190.html

Cuba Under the U.$.-Backed Dictator Batista

- Americans owned 70 % of the arable land

- 1% of the population controlled 46 % of the wealth

- Batista's goons and secret police killed 20,000 Cubans (tortured even more)

- 40 % of the population were illiterate

- 50 % of the population lived in Bohio shacks

- Dissidents were hung and left to dangle in the streets as a warning sign

- The Mafia (Meyer Lansky & Co) ran Havana and used Cuba as a whorehouse for rich gringos from the U.S.

.... These are the conditions that allowed Fidel and Che to rise to power

"Fulgencio Batista murdered 20,000 Cubans in seven years ... and he turned Democratic Cuba into a complete police state - destroying every individual liberty. Yet our aid to his regime, and the ineptness of our policies, enabled Batista to invoke the name of the United States in support of his reign of terror. Administration spokesmen publicly praised Batista - hailed him as a staunch ally and a good friend - at a time when Batista was murdering thousands, destroying the last vestiges of freedom, and stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from the Cuban people, and we failed to press for free elections."

— U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy, October 6, 1960


"I believe that there is no country in the world including any and all the countries under colonial domination, where economic colonization, humiliation and exploitation were worse than in Cuba, in part owing to my country’s policies during the Batista regime. I approved the proclamation which Fidel Castro made in the Sierra Maestra, when he justifiably called for justice and especially yearned to rid Cuba of corruption. I will even go further: to some extent it is as though Batista was the incarnation of a number of sins on the part of the United States. Now we shall have to pay for those sins. In the matter of the Batista regime, I am in agreement with the first Cuban revolutionaries. That is perfectly clear."

— U.S. President John F. Kennedy, interview with Jean Daniel, October 24, 1963


The Cuban Literacy Campaign (Spanish: Campaña Nacional de Alfabetización en Cuba) was a year-long effort to abolish illiteracy in Cuba after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution.[1] It began on January 1 and ended on December 22, 1961, becoming the world's most ambitious and organized literacy campaign.[2][3]

Cuban Literacy Campaign

Before 1959 the official literacy rate for Cuba was between 60-76%, with educational access in rural areas and a lack of instructors the main determining factor.[4] As a result, the Cuban government of Fidel Castro at Che Guevara's behest dubbed 1961 the "year of education", and sent "literacy brigades" out into the countryside to construct schools, train new educators, and teach the predominately illiterate Guajiros (peasants) to read and write. The campaign was "a remarkable success", and by the completion of the campaign, 707,212 adults were taught to read and write, raising the national literacy rate to 96%
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Literacy_Campaign

Fidel Castro's Achievements in Cuba

For the decades leading up to the Cuban Revolution in 1959, Cuba was little more than a playground for wealthy US bankers, corporations and tourists who thrived off the unrestricted access to alcohol, drug-trafficking, gambling and prostitution.

However, after Fidel Castro and his rebel army overthrew the US-Batista regime amidst a wave of popular national revolt all that changed.

Cuba Before the Revolution

Prior to Fidel Castro taking power, life for the masses of Cubans was a misery. 600,000 Cubans were without work. Half-a-million farmers lived in Dickensian shacks. Most worked four months of the year and starved the rest.

The 400,000 or so industrial workers owned by the Capitalist classes faced pay reductions or dismissal. The average annual income was $91.25. Life expectancy for the average Cuban was only 59 years whilst infant mortality stood at 60 per 1,000 live deaths.

Whilst foreign millionaires lapped up sybaritic and schmancy lifestyles in the capital Havana, only 11% of rural Cubans drank milk, 2% had running water, 14% had tuberculosis and 43% were illiterate. Fidel Castro would soon change that.

Soon after the Revolution the new government sought to improve living conditions for the ordinary Cuban people.

One of the first things Fidel Castro did as President was to slash medicine prices and commence a road building programme.

Casinos were also taken over and used for schools whilst in March 1959, the Cuban Telephone Company, a lackey of the US company ITT, was taken over and rates reduced.

State education was immeasurably expanded and a literacy campaign was launched. So successful was it that within one year illiteracy was eradicated in Cuba.

In May 1959, the First Agrarian Reform Laws were launched and Castro’s policy redistributed land owned by US companies to small farmers and landless rural workers.

In earnest, Castro sought to end decades of imperialist and economic domination by ridding Cuba of underdevelopment and building the revolution.

Women in Cuba

Before the revolution women in Cuba made up only 9.8% of the workforce. Many were prostitutes, abortion was illegal and contraception barely existed.

In the wake of this, Fidel Castro set up The Federation of Cuban Women (FMC). In addition, the Family Code, 1975, enshrined equality between men and women in law.

Today women in Cuba constitute almost 50% of the workforce and 62% of Cuban technical, medical and scientific professionals are women

Cuban Healthcare

As Michael Moore’s documentary ‘Sicko’ proved, Cuba has a healthcare system alongside the very best in the world.

In fact, the average Cuban today will live longer than the average American. According to the World Health Organization (2006), Cuba has a doctor to patient ratio of 1 to 170; which as of 2008, was the second best on the planet.

In 1998, Fidel Castro himself won the Health For All award from the WHO for his achievements in healthcare.
http://suite101.com/article/fidel-castros-achievements-a213127

I could go on and on. Today, Cuba has one of the best healthcare systems on the planet, it has eradicated illiteracy, and the Cuban people enjoy tremendous improvements in their quality of life measures.

You keep mentioning that thousands have left Cuba for the US .. seemingly unaware that millions remain.

More mexicans have come to the US than Cubans.

It isn't like I didn't warn you that you didn't know what you were talking about.

yet you clearly IGNORE the facts i presented and simply provide scant facts, which actually support my claim and then give OPINION that you claim as proof that cuba is better off.

they do not have one of the best h/c systems on the plant, false. all you have is far left wing sources that claim to be truth.

you clearly are letting your socialist bias interfere with critical thinking. castro is a tyrant, as much a tyrant as the boogy man you claim existed before castro. the guy tortured, incarcerated and/or imprisoned his opposition, yet you sing his praises.

you are a hypocrite. it is you that clearly does not know what he is talking about. put the ball down and go home.
 
I have told you already, but you have an inpossibly rosy tinted view of him. At least the Guardian, despite being a Left leaning newspaper, is far more clinical and honest in their assessment of him.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/23/libya-gaddafi-vicious-despot

You can't refute the truth of Libya under Gaddafi .. you don't even try. I have one video that completely shuts you down on how bad Gaddafi was for the Libyan people. You won't even attempt to challenge it.

I can prove the lies of Obama and NATO in attacking Libya in 25 seconds or less .. and again, you can't challenge it..

You should stop telling me what you told me brother. What you tell me is the programming you've been given to swallow. It isn't remotely the truth.

AND, most telling of all my friend, you continue to mouth the programmed nonsense in the face of undeniable truth.

I don't eat bullshit brother.
 
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