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Old 11-03-2011, 06:46 PM
 
Location: Pinal County, Arizona
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MEXICO CITY — Cuba announced a new property law Thursday that promises to allow citizens and permanent residents to buy and sell real estate — the most significant market-oriented change yet approved by the government of Raúl Castro, and one that will probably reshape Cuba’s cities and conceptions of class.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/04/wo...says.html?_r=1
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Old 11-03-2011, 07:02 PM
 
Location: Maine
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Default Occupy Havana!

The evil cancer of capitalism may be taking hold in Cuba!

We can olny hope it doesn't destroy the wonderful Socialist Utopia Fidel has created over the past 50 years.

Occupy Havana!
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Old 11-03-2011, 08:57 PM
 
Location: Raleigh, NC
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Must break the hearts of socialists to know that their paradise cannot be maintained.


Former Soviet Citizen Confronts Socialists at Occupy Wall Street (full version) - YouTube
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Old 11-03-2011, 09:01 PM
 
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The evil cancer of capitalism may be taking hold in Cuba!

We can olny hope it doesn't destroy the wonderful Socialist Utopia Fidel has created over the past 50 years.

Occupy Havana!
Cuba was quite the posh vacation spot before their Communist revolution. Maybe it can return to being a jewel of the Carribbean after Hades reclaims the Castro brothers.
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Old 11-24-2011, 07:36 PM
 
Location: The United States of Amnesia
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The trade embargo that the U.S. has on Cuba has forced the country to continue living in the dark ages.

Communism is not the reason for Cuba's misfortune. If it was then China would not be OUR $$$ master.

Is the US a backwards country? The US has spent over $500 million broadcasting Radio Marti and TV Marti, even though the transmission signals of the latter are effectively blocked by the Cuban

United States embargo against Cuba - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Old 11-24-2011, 07:38 PM
 
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No animal is more erratic, and incoherent, than a dying one in shock...
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Old 11-24-2011, 07:47 PM
 
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Cuba was quite the posh vacation spot before their Communist revolution. Maybe it can return to being a jewel of the Carribbean after Hades reclaims the Castro brothers.
It was posh for everyone else BUT the Cuban people themselves, which is why the Revolution succeeded in the first place.
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Old 11-24-2011, 07:51 PM
 
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It was posh for everyone else BUT the Cuban people themselves, which is why the Revolution succeeded in the first place.
That's because it was ruled, literally, by the mob. Meyer Lansky and Lucky Luciano in particular.
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Old 11-24-2011, 07:56 PM
 
Location: NC
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No animal is more erratic, and incoherent, than a dying one in shock...
Thank you, that makes the GOP primary much more understandable.
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Old 11-24-2011, 08:03 PM
 
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That's because it was ruled, literally, by the mob. Meyer Lansky and Lucky Luciano in particular.
Yep.

But revisionist history says that it was a paradise during the Batista regime.
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