Venezuela. A picture is worth a thousand words

[Bleipriester]

If that's the case, why source from Russia?

Its the reliable source we need. Look, when we make pipelines from Russia directly to Germany, the message should be clear: no foreign interference. But Russia is not the only source of Gas for Germany. The Netherlands provides a big share too for example. And we are preparing for compacted gas from the USA as well:
Altmaier rechnet mit zwei LNG-Terminals in Deutschland

Do you have anything negative to say about Putin or Russia?

Should I? They protect the world from terror and cause no harm to anyone.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

If that's the case, why source from Russia?

Its the reliable source we need. Look, when we make pipelines from Russia directly to Germany, the message should be clear: no foreign interference. But Russia is not the only source of Gas for Germany. The Netherlands provides a big share too for example. And we are preparing for compacted gas from the USA as well:
Altmaier rechnet mit zwei LNG-Terminals in Deutschland

Do you have anything negative to say about Putin or Russia?

Should I? They protect the world from terror and cause no harm to anyone.

Should I?

Can you?

 

[danielpalos]

If that's the case, why source from Russia?

Its the reliable source we need. Look, when we make pipelines from Russia directly to Germany, the message should be clear: no foreign interference. But Russia is not the only source of Gas for Germany. The Netherlands provides a big share too for example. And we are preparing for compacted gas from the USA as well:
Altmaier rechnet mit zwei LNG-Terminals in Deutschland

Do you have anything negative to say about Putin or Russia?

Should I? They protect the world from terror and cause no harm to anyone.

how about a common operating agreement instead of an actual occupation?

 

[georgephillip]

Communism is 0 for 100 and has failed everywhere over the past 100 years, and yet there are still ignoramouses still whoring for it today.

How has communism worked in Cuba for a majority of Cubans since 1959?

Cuba is poor, but who is to blame – Castro or 50 years of the US blockade? | LSE Latin America and Caribbean

"Even factoring in its low GDP per capita, the Human Development Index (HDI) lists Cuba in the 'high human development' category; it excels not just in health and education, but also in women’s participation and political inclusion.

"Cuba has eliminated child malnutrition.

"No children sleep on the streets.

"In fact, there is no homelessness.

"Even during the hungry years of economic crisis of the 1990s, Cubans did not starve. Cuba stuck with the planned economy, and it enabled them to ration their scarce resources."

Any homelessness in your town, Rockefeller?

How has communism worked in Cuba for a majority of Cubans since 1959?

Poorly.....very, very poorly.

Cuba is poor, but who is to blame – Castro or 50 years of the US blockade?

Castro.

How has communism worked in Cuba for a majority of Cubans since 1959?

Poorly.....very, very poorly.

Cuba is poor, but who is to blame – Castro or 50 years of the US blockade?

Castro.

Your link:

"Following the revolution, Castro set out to bring social welfare and land reform to the Cuban people and to confiscate the ill-gotten gains of the Cuban elite.

"But when the defeated Fulgencio Batista and his associates fled Cuba, they stole millions of pesos from the National Bank and the Treasury.

"The country was decapitalised, severely limiting the capacity for public spending and private investments.

"Wealthy Cubans were leaving the island, taking their deposits and taxes with them.

"How was the new government going to carry out the ambitious socio-economic reforms without financial resources?

"We have to consider these real circumstances at every juncture.

"For example, when the US embargo was first implemented, 95% of Cuba’s capital goods and 100% of its spare parts were imported from the US – and the US was overwhelmingly the main recipient of Cuban exports.

"When the Soviet bloc disintegrated, Cuba lost 85% of its trade and investment, leading GDP to plummet 35%. These events produced serious economic constraints on Cuba’s room for manoeuvre."

Imagine rich capitalists running instead of fighting for their country.

Your link:

Your link, moron.

"How was the new government going to carry out the ambitious socio-economic reforms without financial resources?"

Don't you hate it when the greedy kulaks leave before you can rob and kill them?

"For example, when the US embargo was first implemented, 95% of Cuba’s capital goods and 100% of its spare parts were imported from the US – and the US was overwhelmingly the main recipient of Cuban exports.

How stupid was Castro to piss off the US, eh comrade?​

"When the Soviet bloc disintegrated, Cuba lost 85% of its trade and investment, leading GDP to plummet 35%. These events produced serious economic constraints on Cuba’s room for manoeuvre."

Yeah, that was funny.

Your link, moron.

"How was the new government going to carry out the ambitious socio-economic reforms without financial resources?"

Don't you hate it when the greedy kulaks leave before you can rob and kill them?

Depends on how the greedy, capitalist Cuban Kulaks acquired their wealth. Since most of them became rich by exploiting Cuba's natural resources and labor pool, I would say they (and their families) were lucky to get out alive.

Cuba is poor, but who is to blame – Castro or 50 years of the US blockade? | LSE Latin America and Caribbean

"The specific and real challenges Cuban development has faced has generated unique contradictions.

"In a planned economy, with an extremely tight budget, they have had to prioritise: the infrastructure is crumbling and yet they have first-world human development indicators.

"Infant mortality rates reveal a lot about the standard of living, being influenced by multiple socioeconomic and medical factors.

"Cuba’s infant mortality rate is 4.5 per 1,000 live births, which sits it among first-world countries – and above the US on the CIA’s own ranking.

"It is not just Cubans who have benefited from these investments. Tens of thousands of Cuban doctors, educators and other development aid workers have served around the world.

"At present some 37,000 Cuban doctors and nurses work in 77 countries.

"They generate foreign exchange of some US$8 billion a year – Cuba’s biggest export.

"In addition, Cuba provides both free medical treatment and free medical training to thousands of foreigners every year.

"As a direct initiative of Fidel, in 1999, the Latin American School of Medicine was inaugurated in Havana to provide foreign students from poor countries with six years of training and accommodation completely free.

"In 2004, Cuba teamed up with Venezuela to provide free eye surgery to people in three dozen countries under Operation Miracle.

"In the first ten years more than 3m people had their sight restored."

How would capitalists pay for free eye surgery, Sap?

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Communism is 0 for 100 and has failed everywhere over the past 100 years, and yet there are still ignoramouses still whoring for it today.

How has communism worked in Cuba for a majority of Cubans since 1959?

Cuba is poor, but who is to blame – Castro or 50 years of the US blockade? | LSE Latin America and Caribbean

"Even factoring in its low GDP per capita, the Human Development Index (HDI) lists Cuba in the 'high human development' category; it excels not just in health and education, but also in women’s participation and political inclusion.

"Cuba has eliminated child malnutrition.

"No children sleep on the streets.

"In fact, there is no homelessness.

"Even during the hungry years of economic crisis of the 1990s, Cubans did not starve. Cuba stuck with the planned economy, and it enabled them to ration their scarce resources."

Any homelessness in your town, Rockefeller?

How has communism worked in Cuba for a majority of Cubans since 1959?

Poorly.....very, very poorly.

Cuba is poor, but who is to blame – Castro or 50 years of the US blockade?

Castro.

How has communism worked in Cuba for a majority of Cubans since 1959?

Poorly.....very, very poorly.

Cuba is poor, but who is to blame – Castro or 50 years of the US blockade?

Castro.

Your link:

"Following the revolution, Castro set out to bring social welfare and land reform to the Cuban people and to confiscate the ill-gotten gains of the Cuban elite.

"But when the defeated Fulgencio Batista and his associates fled Cuba, they stole millions of pesos from the National Bank and the Treasury.

"The country was decapitalised, severely limiting the capacity for public spending and private investments.

"Wealthy Cubans were leaving the island, taking their deposits and taxes with them.

"How was the new government going to carry out the ambitious socio-economic reforms without financial resources?

"We have to consider these real circumstances at every juncture.

"For example, when the US embargo was first implemented, 95% of Cuba’s capital goods and 100% of its spare parts were imported from the US – and the US was overwhelmingly the main recipient of Cuban exports.

"When the Soviet bloc disintegrated, Cuba lost 85% of its trade and investment, leading GDP to plummet 35%. These events produced serious economic constraints on Cuba’s room for manoeuvre."

Imagine rich capitalists running instead of fighting for their country.

Your link:

Your link, moron.

"How was the new government going to carry out the ambitious socio-economic reforms without financial resources?"

Don't you hate it when the greedy kulaks leave before you can rob and kill them?

"For example, when the US embargo was first implemented, 95% of Cuba’s capital goods and 100% of its spare parts were imported from the US – and the US was overwhelmingly the main recipient of Cuban exports.

How stupid was Castro to piss off the US, eh comrade?​

"When the Soviet bloc disintegrated, Cuba lost 85% of its trade and investment, leading GDP to plummet 35%. These events produced serious economic constraints on Cuba’s room for manoeuvre."

Yeah, that was funny.

Your link, moron.

"How was the new government going to carry out the ambitious socio-economic reforms without financial resources?"

Don't you hate it when the greedy kulaks leave before you can rob and kill them?

Depends on how the greedy, capitalist Cuban Kulaks acquired their wealth. Since most of them became rich by exploiting Cuba's natural resources and labor pool, I would say they (and their families) were lucky to get out alive.

Cuba is poor, but who is to blame – Castro or 50 years of the US blockade? | LSE Latin America and Caribbean

"The specific and real challenges Cuban development has faced has generated unique contradictions.

"In a planned economy, with an extremely tight budget, they have had to prioritise: the infrastructure is crumbling and yet they have first-world human development indicators.

"Infant mortality rates reveal a lot about the standard of living, being influenced by multiple socioeconomic and medical factors.

"Cuba’s infant mortality rate is 4.5 per 1,000 live births, which sits it among first-world countries – and above the US on the CIA’s own ranking.

"It is not just Cubans who have benefited from these investments. Tens of thousands of Cuban doctors, educators and other development aid workers have served around the world.

"At present some 37,000 Cuban doctors and nurses work in 77 countries.

"They generate foreign exchange of some US$8 billion a year – Cuba’s biggest export.

"In addition, Cuba provides both free medical treatment and free medical training to thousands of foreigners every year.

"As a direct initiative of Fidel, in 1999, the Latin American School of Medicine was inaugurated in Havana to provide foreign students from poor countries with six years of training and accommodation completely free.

"In 2004, Cuba teamed up with Venezuela to provide free eye surgery to people in three dozen countries under Operation Miracle.

"In the first ten years more than 3m people had their sight restored."

How would capitalists pay for free eye surgery, Sap?

"Cuba’s infant mortality rate is 4.5 per 1,000 live births, which sits it among first-world countries – and above the US on the CIA’s own ranking.

Lying Commies like to lie.

 

[Bleipriester]

If that's the case, why source from Russia?

Its the reliable source we need. Look, when we make pipelines from Russia directly to Germany, the message should be clear: no foreign interference. But Russia is not the only source of Gas for Germany. The Netherlands provides a big share too for example. And we are preparing for compacted gas from the USA as well:
Altmaier rechnet mit zwei LNG-Terminals in Deutschland

Do you have anything negative to say about Putin or Russia?

Should I? They protect the world from terror and cause no harm to anyone.

Should I?

Can you?

I am a free person.

 

[Bleipriester]

If that's the case, why source from Russia?

Its the reliable source we need. Look, when we make pipelines from Russia directly to Germany, the message should be clear: no foreign interference. But Russia is not the only source of Gas for Germany. The Netherlands provides a big share too for example. And we are preparing for compacted gas from the USA as well:
Altmaier rechnet mit zwei LNG-Terminals in Deutschland

Do you have anything negative to say about Putin or Russia?

Should I? They protect the world from terror and cause no harm to anyone.

how about a common operating agreement instead of an actual occupation?

There is. There was a referendum.
Apropos Ukraine, how about elections instead of violent coup d'états?

 

[Bleipriester]

How has communism worked in Cuba for a majority of Cubans since 1959?

Cuba is poor, but who is to blame – Castro or 50 years of the US blockade? | LSE Latin America and Caribbean

"Even factoring in its low GDP per capita, the Human Development Index (HDI) lists Cuba in the 'high human development' category; it excels not just in health and education, but also in women’s participation and political inclusion.

"Cuba has eliminated child malnutrition.

"No children sleep on the streets.

"In fact, there is no homelessness.

"Even during the hungry years of economic crisis of the 1990s, Cubans did not starve. Cuba stuck with the planned economy, and it enabled them to ration their scarce resources."

Any homelessness in your town, Rockefeller?

How has communism worked in Cuba for a majority of Cubans since 1959?

Poorly.....very, very poorly.

Cuba is poor, but who is to blame – Castro or 50 years of the US blockade?

Castro.

How has communism worked in Cuba for a majority of Cubans since 1959?

Poorly.....very, very poorly.

Cuba is poor, but who is to blame – Castro or 50 years of the US blockade?

Castro.

Your link:

"Following the revolution, Castro set out to bring social welfare and land reform to the Cuban people and to confiscate the ill-gotten gains of the Cuban elite.

"But when the defeated Fulgencio Batista and his associates fled Cuba, they stole millions of pesos from the National Bank and the Treasury.

"The country was decapitalised, severely limiting the capacity for public spending and private investments.

"Wealthy Cubans were leaving the island, taking their deposits and taxes with them.

"How was the new government going to carry out the ambitious socio-economic reforms without financial resources?

"We have to consider these real circumstances at every juncture.

"For example, when the US embargo was first implemented, 95% of Cuba’s capital goods and 100% of its spare parts were imported from the US – and the US was overwhelmingly the main recipient of Cuban exports.

"When the Soviet bloc disintegrated, Cuba lost 85% of its trade and investment, leading GDP to plummet 35%. These events produced serious economic constraints on Cuba’s room for manoeuvre."

Imagine rich capitalists running instead of fighting for their country.

Your link:

Your link, moron.

"How was the new government going to carry out the ambitious socio-economic reforms without financial resources?"

Don't you hate it when the greedy kulaks leave before you can rob and kill them?

"For example, when the US embargo was first implemented, 95% of Cuba’s capital goods and 100% of its spare parts were imported from the US – and the US was overwhelmingly the main recipient of Cuban exports.

How stupid was Castro to piss off the US, eh comrade?​

"When the Soviet bloc disintegrated, Cuba lost 85% of its trade and investment, leading GDP to plummet 35%. These events produced serious economic constraints on Cuba’s room for manoeuvre."

Yeah, that was funny.

Your link, moron.

"How was the new government going to carry out the ambitious socio-economic reforms without financial resources?"

Don't you hate it when the greedy kulaks leave before you can rob and kill them?

Depends on how the greedy, capitalist Cuban Kulaks acquired their wealth. Since most of them became rich by exploiting Cuba's natural resources and labor pool, I would say they (and their families) were lucky to get out alive.

Cuba is poor, but who is to blame – Castro or 50 years of the US blockade? | LSE Latin America and Caribbean

"The specific and real challenges Cuban development has faced has generated unique contradictions.

"In a planned economy, with an extremely tight budget, they have had to prioritise: the infrastructure is crumbling and yet they have first-world human development indicators.

"Infant mortality rates reveal a lot about the standard of living, being influenced by multiple socioeconomic and medical factors.

"Cuba’s infant mortality rate is 4.5 per 1,000 live births, which sits it among first-world countries – and above the US on the CIA’s own ranking.

"It is not just Cubans who have benefited from these investments. Tens of thousands of Cuban doctors, educators and other development aid workers have served around the world.

"At present some 37,000 Cuban doctors and nurses work in 77 countries.

"They generate foreign exchange of some US$8 billion a year – Cuba’s biggest export.

"In addition, Cuba provides both free medical treatment and free medical training to thousands of foreigners every year.

"As a direct initiative of Fidel, in 1999, the Latin American School of Medicine was inaugurated in Havana to provide foreign students from poor countries with six years of training and accommodation completely free.

"In 2004, Cuba teamed up with Venezuela to provide free eye surgery to people in three dozen countries under Operation Miracle.

"In the first ten years more than 3m people had their sight restored."

How would capitalists pay for free eye surgery, Sap?

"Cuba’s infant mortality rate is 4.5 per 1,000 live births, which sits it among first-world countries – and above the US on the CIA’s own ranking.

Lying Commies like to lie.

4,4 is better than 5,8.

 

[danielpalos]

If that's the case, why source from Russia?

Its the reliable source we need. Look, when we make pipelines from Russia directly to Germany, the message should be clear: no foreign interference. But Russia is not the only source of Gas for Germany. The Netherlands provides a big share too for example. And we are preparing for compacted gas from the USA as well:
Altmaier rechnet mit zwei LNG-Terminals in Deutschland

Do you have anything negative to say about Putin or Russia?

Should I? They protect the world from terror and cause no harm to anyone.

how about a common operating agreement instead of an actual occupation?

There is. There was a referendum.
Apropos Ukraine, how about elections instead of violent coup d'états?

how about a common operating agreement instead of an actual occupation?

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

If that's the case, why source from Russia?

Its the reliable source we need. Look, when we make pipelines from Russia directly to Germany, the message should be clear: no foreign interference. But Russia is not the only source of Gas for Germany. The Netherlands provides a big share too for example. And we are preparing for compacted gas from the USA as well:
Altmaier rechnet mit zwei LNG-Terminals in Deutschland

Do you have anything negative to say about Putin or Russia?

Should I? They protect the world from terror and cause no harm to anyone.

Should I?

Can you?

I am a free person.

Excellent!

Nothing negative to say about Putin or Russia?

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

How has communism worked in Cuba for a majority of Cubans since 1959?

Poorly.....very, very poorly.

Cuba is poor, but who is to blame – Castro or 50 years of the US blockade?

Castro.

How has communism worked in Cuba for a majority of Cubans since 1959?

Poorly.....very, very poorly.

Cuba is poor, but who is to blame – Castro or 50 years of the US blockade?

Castro.

Your link:

"Following the revolution, Castro set out to bring social welfare and land reform to the Cuban people and to confiscate the ill-gotten gains of the Cuban elite.

"But when the defeated Fulgencio Batista and his associates fled Cuba, they stole millions of pesos from the National Bank and the Treasury.

"The country was decapitalised, severely limiting the capacity for public spending and private investments.

"Wealthy Cubans were leaving the island, taking their deposits and taxes with them.

"How was the new government going to carry out the ambitious socio-economic reforms without financial resources?

"We have to consider these real circumstances at every juncture.

"For example, when the US embargo was first implemented, 95% of Cuba’s capital goods and 100% of its spare parts were imported from the US – and the US was overwhelmingly the main recipient of Cuban exports.

"When the Soviet bloc disintegrated, Cuba lost 85% of its trade and investment, leading GDP to plummet 35%. These events produced serious economic constraints on Cuba’s room for manoeuvre."

Imagine rich capitalists running instead of fighting for their country.

Your link:

Your link, moron.

"How was the new government going to carry out the ambitious socio-economic reforms without financial resources?"

Don't you hate it when the greedy kulaks leave before you can rob and kill them?

"For example, when the US embargo was first implemented, 95% of Cuba’s capital goods and 100% of its spare parts were imported from the US – and the US was overwhelmingly the main recipient of Cuban exports.

How stupid was Castro to piss off the US, eh comrade?​

"When the Soviet bloc disintegrated, Cuba lost 85% of its trade and investment, leading GDP to plummet 35%. These events produced serious economic constraints on Cuba’s room for manoeuvre."

Yeah, that was funny.

Your link, moron.

"How was the new government going to carry out the ambitious socio-economic reforms without financial resources?"

Don't you hate it when the greedy kulaks leave before you can rob and kill them?

Depends on how the greedy, capitalist Cuban Kulaks acquired their wealth. Since most of them became rich by exploiting Cuba's natural resources and labor pool, I would say they (and their families) were lucky to get out alive.

Cuba is poor, but who is to blame – Castro or 50 years of the US blockade? | LSE Latin America and Caribbean

"The specific and real challenges Cuban development has faced has generated unique contradictions.

"In a planned economy, with an extremely tight budget, they have had to prioritise: the infrastructure is crumbling and yet they have first-world human development indicators.

"Infant mortality rates reveal a lot about the standard of living, being influenced by multiple socioeconomic and medical factors.

"Cuba’s infant mortality rate is 4.5 per 1,000 live births, which sits it among first-world countries – and above the US on the CIA’s own ranking.

"It is not just Cubans who have benefited from these investments. Tens of thousands of Cuban doctors, educators and other development aid workers have served around the world.

"At present some 37,000 Cuban doctors and nurses work in 77 countries.

"They generate foreign exchange of some US$8 billion a year – Cuba’s biggest export.

"In addition, Cuba provides both free medical treatment and free medical training to thousands of foreigners every year.

"As a direct initiative of Fidel, in 1999, the Latin American School of Medicine was inaugurated in Havana to provide foreign students from poor countries with six years of training and accommodation completely free.

"In 2004, Cuba teamed up with Venezuela to provide free eye surgery to people in three dozen countries under Operation Miracle.

"In the first ten years more than 3m people had their sight restored."

How would capitalists pay for free eye surgery, Sap?

"Cuba’s infant mortality rate is 4.5 per 1,000 live births, which sits it among first-world countries – and above the US on the CIA’s own ranking.

Lying Commies like to lie.

4,4 is better than 5,8.

And 100% literacy and free healthcare!

 

[Bleipriester]

Your link:

"Following the revolution, Castro set out to bring social welfare and land reform to the Cuban people and to confiscate the ill-gotten gains of the Cuban elite.

"But when the defeated Fulgencio Batista and his associates fled Cuba, they stole millions of pesos from the National Bank and the Treasury.

"The country was decapitalised, severely limiting the capacity for public spending and private investments.

"Wealthy Cubans were leaving the island, taking their deposits and taxes with them.

"How was the new government going to carry out the ambitious socio-economic reforms without financial resources?

"We have to consider these real circumstances at every juncture.

"For example, when the US embargo was first implemented, 95% of Cuba’s capital goods and 100% of its spare parts were imported from the US – and the US was overwhelmingly the main recipient of Cuban exports.

"When the Soviet bloc disintegrated, Cuba lost 85% of its trade and investment, leading GDP to plummet 35%. These events produced serious economic constraints on Cuba’s room for manoeuvre."

Imagine rich capitalists running instead of fighting for their country.

Your link:

Your link, moron.

"How was the new government going to carry out the ambitious socio-economic reforms without financial resources?"

Don't you hate it when the greedy kulaks leave before you can rob and kill them?

"For example, when the US embargo was first implemented, 95% of Cuba’s capital goods and 100% of its spare parts were imported from the US – and the US was overwhelmingly the main recipient of Cuban exports.

How stupid was Castro to piss off the US, eh comrade?​

"When the Soviet bloc disintegrated, Cuba lost 85% of its trade and investment, leading GDP to plummet 35%. These events produced serious economic constraints on Cuba’s room for manoeuvre."

Yeah, that was funny.

Your link, moron.

"How was the new government going to carry out the ambitious socio-economic reforms without financial resources?"

Don't you hate it when the greedy kulaks leave before you can rob and kill them?

Depends on how the greedy, capitalist Cuban Kulaks acquired their wealth. Since most of them became rich by exploiting Cuba's natural resources and labor pool, I would say they (and their families) were lucky to get out alive.

Cuba is poor, but who is to blame – Castro or 50 years of the US blockade? | LSE Latin America and Caribbean

"The specific and real challenges Cuban development has faced has generated unique contradictions.

"In a planned economy, with an extremely tight budget, they have had to prioritise: the infrastructure is crumbling and yet they have first-world human development indicators.

"Infant mortality rates reveal a lot about the standard of living, being influenced by multiple socioeconomic and medical factors.

"Cuba’s infant mortality rate is 4.5 per 1,000 live births, which sits it among first-world countries – and above the US on the CIA’s own ranking.

"It is not just Cubans who have benefited from these investments. Tens of thousands of Cuban doctors, educators and other development aid workers have served around the world.

"At present some 37,000 Cuban doctors and nurses work in 77 countries.

"They generate foreign exchange of some US$8 billion a year – Cuba’s biggest export.

"In addition, Cuba provides both free medical treatment and free medical training to thousands of foreigners every year.

"As a direct initiative of Fidel, in 1999, the Latin American School of Medicine was inaugurated in Havana to provide foreign students from poor countries with six years of training and accommodation completely free.

"In 2004, Cuba teamed up with Venezuela to provide free eye surgery to people in three dozen countries under Operation Miracle.

"In the first ten years more than 3m people had their sight restored."

How would capitalists pay for free eye surgery, Sap?

"Cuba’s infant mortality rate is 4.5 per 1,000 live births, which sits it among first-world countries – and above the US on the CIA’s own ranking.

Lying Commies like to lie.

4,4 is better than 5,8.

And 100% literacy and free healthcare!

And now?

 

[georgephillip]

How has communism worked in Cuba for a majority of Cubans since 1959?

Cuba is poor, but who is to blame – Castro or 50 years of the US blockade? | LSE Latin America and Caribbean

"Even factoring in its low GDP per capita, the Human Development Index (HDI) lists Cuba in the 'high human development' category; it excels not just in health and education, but also in women’s participation and political inclusion.

"Cuba has eliminated child malnutrition.

"No children sleep on the streets.

"In fact, there is no homelessness.

"Even during the hungry years of economic crisis of the 1990s, Cubans did not starve. Cuba stuck with the planned economy, and it enabled them to ration their scarce resources."

Any homelessness in your town, Rockefeller?

How has communism worked in Cuba for a majority of Cubans since 1959?

Poorly.....very, very poorly.

Cuba is poor, but who is to blame – Castro or 50 years of the US blockade?

Castro.

How has communism worked in Cuba for a majority of Cubans since 1959?

Poorly.....very, very poorly.

Cuba is poor, but who is to blame – Castro or 50 years of the US blockade?

Castro.

Your link:

"Following the revolution, Castro set out to bring social welfare and land reform to the Cuban people and to confiscate the ill-gotten gains of the Cuban elite.

"But when the defeated Fulgencio Batista and his associates fled Cuba, they stole millions of pesos from the National Bank and the Treasury.

"The country was decapitalised, severely limiting the capacity for public spending and private investments.

"Wealthy Cubans were leaving the island, taking their deposits and taxes with them.

"How was the new government going to carry out the ambitious socio-economic reforms without financial resources?

"We have to consider these real circumstances at every juncture.

"For example, when the US embargo was first implemented, 95% of Cuba’s capital goods and 100% of its spare parts were imported from the US – and the US was overwhelmingly the main recipient of Cuban exports.

"When the Soviet bloc disintegrated, Cuba lost 85% of its trade and investment, leading GDP to plummet 35%. These events produced serious economic constraints on Cuba’s room for manoeuvre."

Imagine rich capitalists running instead of fighting for their country.

Your link:

Your link, moron.

"How was the new government going to carry out the ambitious socio-economic reforms without financial resources?"

Don't you hate it when the greedy kulaks leave before you can rob and kill them?

"For example, when the US embargo was first implemented, 95% of Cuba’s capital goods and 100% of its spare parts were imported from the US – and the US was overwhelmingly the main recipient of Cuban exports.

How stupid was Castro to piss off the US, eh comrade?​

"When the Soviet bloc disintegrated, Cuba lost 85% of its trade and investment, leading GDP to plummet 35%. These events produced serious economic constraints on Cuba’s room for manoeuvre."

Yeah, that was funny.

Your link, moron.

"How was the new government going to carry out the ambitious socio-economic reforms without financial resources?"

Don't you hate it when the greedy kulaks leave before you can rob and kill them?

Depends on how the greedy, capitalist Cuban Kulaks acquired their wealth. Since most of them became rich by exploiting Cuba's natural resources and labor pool, I would say they (and their families) were lucky to get out alive.

Cuba is poor, but who is to blame – Castro or 50 years of the US blockade? | LSE Latin America and Caribbean

"The specific and real challenges Cuban development has faced has generated unique contradictions.

"In a planned economy, with an extremely tight budget, they have had to prioritise: the infrastructure is crumbling and yet they have first-world human development indicators.

"Infant mortality rates reveal a lot about the standard of living, being influenced by multiple socioeconomic and medical factors.

"Cuba’s infant mortality rate is 4.5 per 1,000 live births, which sits it among first-world countries – and above the US on the CIA’s own ranking.

"It is not just Cubans who have benefited from these investments. Tens of thousands of Cuban doctors, educators and other development aid workers have served around the world.

"At present some 37,000 Cuban doctors and nurses work in 77 countries.

"They generate foreign exchange of some US$8 billion a year – Cuba’s biggest export.

"In addition, Cuba provides both free medical treatment and free medical training to thousands of foreigners every year.

"As a direct initiative of Fidel, in 1999, the Latin American School of Medicine was inaugurated in Havana to provide foreign students from poor countries with six years of training and accommodation completely free.

"In 2004, Cuba teamed up with Venezuela to provide free eye surgery to people in three dozen countries under Operation Miracle.

"In the first ten years more than 3m people had their sight restored."

How would capitalists pay for free eye surgery, Sap?

"Cuba’s infant mortality rate is 4.5 per 1,000 live births, which sits it among first-world countries – and above the US on the CIA’s own ranking.

Lying Commies like to lie.

Lying Commies like to lie.

Nobody lies like a Crony Capitalist.

"In 745 days, President
Trump has made 8,459
false or misleading claims
The Fact Checker’s ongoing database of the false or misleading claims made by President Trump since assuming office."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/grap...atabase/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.22f5c39bd866

 

[Toro]

The Daily Shot: Small Business Sentiment Sours

 

[danielpalos]

A left winger like FDR would have used socialism to upgrade his economy.