Reply #7: Still trotting out that old Mussolini canard I see. [View All]

[Mika]

UN praises Cuba's ability to feed people
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7329

Havana - A U.N. food expert hailed Cuba as a world model in feeding its population, some 18 years after the collapse of the Soviet Bloc ravaged the island's economy and sparked widespread hunger.

Jean Ziegler, who has been the United Nations' independent investigator on "the right to food" since 2000, spent 11 days in Cuba on a fact-finding mission, meeting with top officials and chatting up farmers, state managers and ordinary Cubans waiting in line for food allotted by ration cards.

"We haven't seen even one malnourished person" - a rare feat in much of poverty-stricken Latin America, Ziegler said Tuesday. "The right to being fed is the priority, without a doubt."

Cuba is one of 32 countries that include the "right to food" in their constitutions, and fewer still - including Brazil, Latin America's largest economy - meet pledges to provide food to all their citizens, he said.

Yeah, right. Just like Mussolini. :crazy:

Maybe you should concern yourself with the US's inability to provide freedom of expression, free elections, and producing enough food for the country.

Oh yeah, and health care too.


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