This image captures a lot of what life is like for many Cubans. A totally bored person, keeping a shop that has one stale loaf of bread. There are so many reasons for this situation that it almost defies understanding. For many there is only one reason-Fidel Castro. For others, there is the embargo (yet we are shipping and selling wheat to Cuba.) The tourism is also a reason-most of the decent foodstuff is earmarked for the fancier hotels where the average Cuban can't afford to go. The bottom line, as stated earlier, is that the economy has failed and it benefits those in power to keep the population impoverished and struggling. It has failed just as the economies of Eastern Europe and the USSR failed. Communism is not a workable system unless it is imposed by force.
Monday, January 23, 2006
Mas Pan
This image captures a lot of what life is like for many Cubans. A totally bored person, keeping a shop that has one stale loaf of bread. There are so many reasons for this situation that it almost defies understanding. For many there is only one reason-Fidel Castro. For others, there is the embargo (yet we are shipping and selling wheat to Cuba.) The tourism is also a reason-most of the decent foodstuff is earmarked for the fancier hotels where the average Cuban can't afford to go. The bottom line, as stated earlier, is that the economy has failed and it benefits those in power to keep the population impoverished and struggling. It has failed just as the economies of Eastern Europe and the USSR failed. Communism is not a workable system unless it is imposed by force.
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Pac, I think this picture together with your comments, captures very well the actual situation of Cuba. Loved the machetero picture.
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