50 not out

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Celebration of the Cuban revolution tonight.

Despite the fact they've been subjected to the most sustained blockade perpetrated by the most powerful nation this planet has ever produced, they're still there. They are afterall, a Carribean Island (hardly an economic power house in their own right). Their principal sponsors have fallen by the way, yet they still produce some of the best education and health around, and all the more remarkable given the blockade they've had to endure, and by whom, and for so long. I doubt very much we could do the same? And ironically, their economy is starting to pick up the credit crunch hasn't hit Cuba.

Even those who routinely knock Cuba must admit what a tremendous achievement of survival its been? And does it really justify its place on Bush's axis of evil? I'd line up many more countries for that accolade (including Saudi Arabia) before I put Cuba there. As you all know, Cuba is a country hell bent on spreading state religon and evil terrorist acts
 
I'd love to see the evidence that prompted Bush to brand the Cubans as "deliberately seeking to obtain chemical or biological weapons" - the apparent reason for their inclusion in the 'axis'!

I'll leave it to others to debate the merits or otherwise of 50 years of Communist Cuba though!
 
I don't know about the chemical weapons, Trackside, but Castro was alleged by an impeccable source (The National Enquirer) to be training sharks to attack the Florida beaches. Presumably they qualify as biological weapons?

BTW, I've never met an American who was prepared to defend their outrageous boycott of Cuba.
 
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Any state that bans it citizens from travelling abroad is a failed state. There is nothing more to know
 
That completes my education so. Thanks clivex.

What I'll do for the (actuarially forecast) 30 years left to me is a bit of a challenge, though.
 
Was thinking along the same lines, Clive!

Very interesting piece in the Guardian (just for you Clive! :D) which suggests that the standard of living is in keeping with basically all of what I had read before - absolutely dire:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/01/fidel-castro-raul-castro

Perhaps a more complete title would read:

50 not out; 10 million+ down and out

Hardly an occassion to celebrate for me.
 
Yes Trackside. Good read which will no doubt have the letters page there squealing like stuck pigs tomorrow. Similar articles this week in the Times too and on the BBCwhere it was reported that you can be reported to "the authorities" if you are seen with "a big bag", ie...having too many possessions

Still if the economy continues to pick up they may allow citizens a small bag or whatever
 
"The so-called first-generation human rights, those such as the right to freedom of expression or association, are meaningless without accompanying rights to eat, work and have a roof over our heads. Cuba's socialist government has stressed these rights, known in the west as second- and third-generation human rights, over the first."

I gave up on the piece at this point...
 
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