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Let's not forget that we keep imposing a crippling embargo on the country for something they did 50 years ago. That might have something to do with it too.
Let's not forget that we keep imposing a crippling embargo on the country for something they did 50 years ago. That might have something to do with it too.
Let us not forget that Cuba is the only country in the Americas which completely crushes its opponents and doesn't allow free discussion at any level, and has a total monopoly on the level of discussions that is accessible to most.
If Cuba decides tomorrow to allow freedom of speech and to put in place mechanisms to allow political parties to freely compete in elections the embargo will be done. Because the US government will have lost any moral excuse to maintain it. And there are many US corporations who are just itching for unfettered access to trade and investment opportunities in that nation. Yes the EVIL capitalists who most of you socialists deplore.
If there are 100 countries in the world who Cuba can trade with it freely trades with 99 of them. The USA is also one of its largest trading partners as we sell a large amount of food to them.
In addition Castro over the years damned capitalism as evil and the USA as Satan. So if the USA is so bad why should Cuba trade or have any interaction with them? You can't have it both ways.
The Soviet Union : "not socialism"
China : "not socialism"
Cambodia : "not socialism"
Vietnam : "not socialism"
North Korea : "not socialism"
Zimbabwe , Algeria, Tanzania etc : "not socialism"
The lefties always explain that way by claiming those countries aren't socialist but actually "state capitalist", a totally fictitious term meant to deflect from socialism's failure in providing a truly progressive economy for their people.
The perfect, almost laboratory like experiment in socialism v capitalism is North v South Korea. Same people, same language, same culture, same history but opposite economic systems. Here is what they look like at night, from space: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_v2pOgslN3m..._Satellite.jpg
Actually, it should be easy for any Hispanic country to have total literacy --- because in the Spanish language there is exactly one sound, and only one sound, to match every letter of their alphabet, with never any exceptions, and never any silent letters (making it infinitely simpler to write/spell than, say, French or English which are very chaotic and irrational to spell). So, any native Spanish-speaker needs to just learn the 26 letters (plus a couple of accent marks and the double-L) and they can instantly read.
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