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The difference between China and Cuba is that China pays its bills.
Cimex President admits that Cuba is having trouble paying it’s bills
Published: Fri May 22, 2009
Cuba’s economy has been crippled by the global financial crisis and three hurricanes that struck last year, causing $10 billion in damage, according to the Cuban government.
It blames a U.S. trade embargo imposed since 1962 for many of its problems. But Cuban President Raul Castro has said Cuba needs greater productivity and called for a pay system that rewards the best workers.
UN embargo vote results today October 28, 2009. This year's vote was 187-3 in opposition to the embargo, up from 185-3 last year, with only Israel and the tiny Pacific island nation of Palau supporting the United States.
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez ticked off a long list of grievances in his speech before the world body, saying the embargo -- which the Cubans refer to as a blockade -- had cost the island's fragile economy tens of billions of dollars over the years and prevented Cuban children from getting needed medical care.
Washington has made clear it is not prepared to lift the embargo until Cuba accepts some political, economic and financial changes.
U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice reacted strongly, calling Rodriguez's statements "hostile" and "straight out of the Cold War era."
One after another, global representatives stood to speak in opposition to the embargo, calling it a cruel anachronism that ran counter to international law and which had only succeeded in hurting ordinary Cubans, particularly women and children.
Cimex President admits that Cuba is having trouble paying it’s bills
Published: Fri May 22, 2009
Cuba’s economy has been crippled by the global financial crisis and three hurricanes that struck last year, causing $10 billion in damage, according to the Cuban government.
It blames a U.S. trade embargo imposed since 1962 for many of its problems. But Cuban President Raul Castro has said Cuba needs greater productivity and called for a pay system that rewards the best workers.
So it empowers a communist dictator which is funded by an aggressive communist country then that country collapses and Cuba is left in the dark with no funding except from another nervous third world dictator, Chavez. To solve that issue you now think we should put them on the payroll because Castro's brother, the general in his army the whole time he was in power, is now in power and says he is willing to "rethink" it's stances. Does that seriously make sense to you. Do you think we should pay criminals, maybe through unemployment, because when they get out of jail they have a hard time making it...
So it empowers a communist dictator which is funded by an aggressive communist country then that country collapses and Cuba is left in the dark with no funding except from another nervous third world dictator, Chavez. To solve that issue you now think we should put them on the payroll because Castro's brother, the general in his army the whole time he was in power, is now in power and says he is willing to "rethink" it's stances. Does that seriously make sense to you. Do you think we should pay criminals, maybe through unemployment, because when they get out of jail they have a hard time making it...
Unfortunately that's one of the side effects of living in a fairytale world and others, that live in ma real world with real things going on, are speaking to you in real world terms.
I could beg some of you to just take the time to read some unbiased history about Cuba but I know it would be a waste of my time. Rather than educate yourself and do your own research and thinking you will be satisfied to go through life with the misinformation that you pick up from talk radio. I often wonder how differently things would have been if, when Castro turned to the U.S. after the revolution, we had befriended them as other countries befriended the U.S. after our revolution. Instead we sided with the thugs and white collar criminals who had been getting money hand over fist by using Cuba as their own private piggy bank, paying off Batista and his insiders, and leaving the Cuban people penniless in their own country. How often has the U.S. sided with the people who mistreat their own people and how many times has it come back to bite us?
So it empowers a communist dictator which is funded by an aggressive communist country then that country collapses and Cuba is left in the dark with no funding except from another nervous third world dictator, Chavez. To solve that issue you now think we should put them on the payroll because Castro's brother, the general in his army the whole time he was in power, is now in power and says he is willing to "rethink" it's stances. Does that seriously make sense to you. Do you think we should pay criminals, maybe through unemployment, because when they get out of jail they have a hard time making it...
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