Reply #175: Hmmmm, [View All]

[Say_What]

Your Post 148: Cuba right now is a third world country. You can try to blame that on the US, but that is just as stupid as blaming North Koreas economic problems on the US. It shifts blame from where it really rests (Castro) to a convenient scapegoat (US).

THIS POST: of cource the embargo is bad for the Cuban economy.
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ME: Well, which is it? First you say that Castro is to blame for the economic problems on island. Now you say that the embargo is bad for the Cuban economy. Please provide some backup for your drivel.

Anyone with a brain has to know how devastating the embargo is. Before returning home to Cuba in 2003, Oswaldo Paya made a case about ending the embargo when he met with Colin Powell in Washington after Paya was awarded the Andrei Sokorov Prize for Freedom. But then I suppose you'd have an answer for him as well.

YOU: ...infant mortality and literacy stats say nothing about whether a nation is a dictatorship or a democracy.

ME: Correct, but it does indicate HOW a country provides and cares for it's citizens. Dictatorships typically take everything and leave the citizenry poor, uneducated, without healthcare, tortured, disappeared, murdered,etc. This is what US-puppet dictator Batista did to the Cubans and they threw him the f*ck out.

YOU: if you interpreted my post to mean something along the lines of "you can get sex on Cuba" or "you can buy stuff on the black market in Cuba"

ME: What is it about "is that the best you can do" that you don't understand?

Like I said, a 10-day Cuba-expert wonder... :freak: