Cuba is a country of inventors, innovators

[Say_What]

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HOLGUIN, Cuba - (KRT) - Cubans make ham from algae, dolls from shampoo bottles, and picture frames from old CD cases.

They joke that their national pastime isn't really baseball. It's the art of innovation.

"We're natural born inventors," said Javier Portelles, 54, who cruises the streets in a Cuban creation known as the "Coco-taxi" - an Italian moped topped with a coconut-shaped Fiberglas body. "We're survivors. We won't let ourselves die."

In that spirit, Cuban officials recently held a two-day invention fair in the eastern city of Holguin. Fifty award-winning innovations - from handcrafted U-shaped bicycle seats to homemade plastic purses - were on display.

"This is the fruit of the revolution," declared Jose Suarez Bravo, president of Cuba's National Association of Inventors and Innovators.

http://www.sanluisobispo.com/mld/sanluisobispo/news/world/6970920.htm

[cspiguy]

1. and esclavos (Slaves).

I'm progressive but Cubanos still live in a slave society, cowering in fear. Great things to come from these brave people once the Massa's are gone.

[Red_Storm]

6. with "Massa" in charge....................

everyone in the country has access to healthcare.....very low illiteracy rate, college is available to everyone......Massa allows students from all over the world to study at Cuban medical schools....free of charge.......hopefully all these horrible conditions will change when Massa is gone.........

[pvokac]

2. innovation

Innovation as an opiate of the people?

[9215]

3. I thought creativity was

domain of capitalists? :eyes:

They also have done wonders in medical research from what I hear.

Chomsky says that the reason the Right has it out for Cuba is because they fear a "good example" of socialism.

[Zuni]

4. Cuba is hardly a good example of anything

and Chomsky must be smoking something if he thinks Castro is some kind of humanitarian.

[TahitiNut]

5. Not LBN

Article originally published on Monday, October 6, 2003 in the Dallas Morning News.
http://www.dallasnews.com/world/cuba/stories/100703dnintinvent.1c70b.html

Locking.

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TahitiNut - DU moderator