Cuba's newly legalized private businesses are paying their workers many, many times more than what they had been making when they worked for...

[Harpy Eagle]

The one making nice with the USSR was only 90 miles offshore. That kinda makes a difference, or maybe you like the idea of nukes that close to us.

It has been 32 years since the end of the USSR and we have more sanctions on Cuba than ever before.

What is the excuse now?

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

It has been 32 years since the end of the USSR and we have more sanctions on Cuba than ever before.

What is the excuse now?

Maybe they should stop suppressing their people?

 

[GLASNOST]

/—-/ Translation: You’re a Cuban apologist .....

You understand nothing about Cuba or its modern history. That is not my fault and it is not my responsibility to educate you. My advice is that you do some reading about Cuba and stop making childish and ridiculous claims about it.

 

[Cellblock2429]

You understand nothing about Cuba or its modern history. That is not my fault and it is not my responsibility to educate you. My advice is that you do some reading about Cuba and stop making childish and ridiculous claims about it.

/----/ Yet, you can't make one argument against my claims. All you have are childish insults. I accept your surrender.
Like Commie Harris, you can't answer direct questions.

 

[GLASNOST]

You understand nothing about Cuba or its modern history. That is not my fault and it is not my responsibility to educate you. My advice is that you do some reading about Cuba and stop making childish and ridiculous claims about it.

Yet, you can't make one argument against my claims.

I have nothing further to say to you ... so I won't.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Maybe they should stop suppressing their people?

Do they do so any more than China or Saudi or a whole host of other countries we have ties with?

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Do they do so any more than China or Saudi or a whole host of other countries we have ties with?

I don't see a lot of Chinese or Saudis getting in tiny rafts to escape their countries.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

I don't see a lot of Chinese or Saudis getting in tiny rafts to escape their countries.

Those countries are thriving despite despots leading them as the US does not have sanctions against them.

 

[Cellblock2429]

I have nothing further to say to you ... so I won't.

/——/ Bad news for you Glasnost. Rauel now allows small businesses to exist in Cuba. He’s rolling back the hard restrictions of Fidel. And Cubans are starting to thrive even though the embargo is still on. Sad for you watching Communism being replaced with capitalism.

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www.reuters.com

 

[Harpy Eagle]

/——/ Bad news for you Glasnost. Rauel now allows small businesses to exist in Cuba. He’s rolling back the hard restrictions of Fidel. And Cubans are starting to thrive even though the embargo is still on. Sad for you watching Communism being replaced with capitalism.

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It has been almost 3 years since that article, how is they doing now?

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Those countries are thriving despite despots leading them as the US does not have sanctions against them.

Thriving because they didn't outlaw capitalism.

 

[Cellblock2429]

It has been almost 3 years since that article, how is they doing now?

/——/ Is your Google broken?
July 2023: The difference is enormous,” said Jakcel Conteras, a former vet’s assistant who is now one of hundreds of thousands of Cubans working in the private sector. “When I worked for the state, I earned 800 to 900 pesos a month, now I earn between 10,000 and 15,000 pesos a month.”
The difference is enormous,” said Jakcel Conteras, a former vet’s assistant who is now one of hundreds of thousands of Cubans working in the private sector. “When I worked for the state, I earned 800 to 900 pesos a month, now I earn between 10,000 and 15,000 pesos a month.”

As Cuba’s private sector roars back, choices and inequality rise

Even as more small businesses have popped up across the island, some simply can’t afford what’s on sale.

www.aljazeera.com

 

[Drop Dead Fred]

You people have no idea what the Cuban Revolution was all about. Do you not know what life was like in Cuba before the Revolution? Do you not know who was running the Cuban government before the revolution? No ...... you have no idea. Private businesses would have flourished in Cuba long ago if the US had not intervened.

I know that before the 1959 revolution, Cuba was one of the richest countries in Latin America, and the country received a net number of people moving into the country.

All of that was reversed after the communists seized all of the private businesses and housing.

No matter how bad a situation may be, adopting communism always makes the situation worse, not better.

 

[Drop Dead Fred]

Thanks to 6 plus decades of US sanctions.

Sanctions always make a bad situation worse. But it was not the sanctions that caused the bad situation in the first place.

As a libertarian, I am against the embargo, and I support free trade and global capitalism.

What I do not understand is why the communists are against the embargo. If they hate capitalism, then why would they want Nike, Wal-Mart, and McDonald's to start doing business in Cuba?

 

[GLASNOST]

I know that before the 1959 revolution, Cuba was one of the richest countries in Latin America,

.... for whose benefit? You do not understand anything about Cuba.

.. adopting communism always makes the situation worse, not better.

... and you know nothing about communism either. In fact, you don't even know who was a communist.

 

[Cellblock2429]

.... for whose benefit? You do not understand anything about Cuba.

... and you know nothing about communism either. In fact, you don't even know who was a communist.

/—-/ Cuba can get whatever it needs or wants from China. It doesn’t need evil American capi.

 

[Deadstick]

You people have no idea what the Cuban Revolution was all about. Do you not know what life was like in Cuba before the Revolution? Do you not know who was running the Cuban government before the revolution? No ...... you have no idea. Private businesses would have flourished in Cuba long ago if the US had not intervened.

They don't want to know, they like to believe Castro and his men just came down from the hills one day and overthrew a Democracy headed by that big Democrat Batista.

 

[GLASNOST]

You people have no idea what the Cuban Revolution was all about. Do you not know what life was like in Cuba before the Revolution? Do you not know who was running the Cuban government before the revolution? No ...... you have no idea. Private businesses would have flourished in Cuba long ago if the US had not intervened.

They don't want to know, they like to believe Castro and his men just came down from the hills one day and overthrew a Democracy headed by that big Democrat Batista.

They are voluntary idiots.

 

[GMCGeneral]

1962?

Stop it, you're killing me!!!

And what happened in 1962? Oh yeah! The Cuban Missile Crisis that almost got us into an all out nuclear exchange

 

[The Duke]

As a libertarian, I trust workers to choose the job that they believe is best for them.

Communists refer to this as "exploitation."

Well, I say: bring on the exploitation!

It looks like they have better stock, too.