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Caribbean-Latin America
Dirt Poor in the Workers' Paradise
2009-03-17
Eighty-four percent of Cuba's food is imported.

by Blake Hurst

Long but worthwhile piece in the Weekly Standard about the failure of Cuban agriculture. It's far worse than the apologists could imagine.
Posted by:Steve White

#6  TOPIX > IIRC NORTH KOREA: COMMUNISM PROVIDES PIZZA TO THE MASSES - OR AT LEAST TO THE COMMUNIST PARTY ELITES!?

* ION NOKOR = KIMMIE, TOPIX > NORTH KOREA HALTS US FOOD AID PROGRAMS + US NGOS ORDERED TO LEAVE NORTH KOREA, + JAPAN MAY APPROVE PLANS NEXT WEEK TO SHOOT DOWN NORTH KOREAN MISSLE?
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2009-03-17 22:42  

#5  And they are surrounded by water, yet their fishing industry is also shattered.

I'm sure Fidel eats workers rations.
Posted by: Skunky Ebbusose2105   2009-03-17 16:55  

#4  hollyweird's paradise.
Posted by: HammerHead   2009-03-17 09:17  

#3  I was wondering what the latest twist on "but the workers are SO HAPPY under socialism!" would be. I never thought it would be "because the workers get to eat organic food!"

Keep 'em hungry, keep 'em working their tails off to produce what little food there is, and you don't have to worry about a counterrevolution. They'll be way too exhausted to cause any trouble. Diabolical, true, but as long as the countryside is pretty, the apologists in the West could give a rat's ass.
Posted by: Cornsilk Blondie   2009-03-17 05:33  

#2  ...A gentleman of my acquaintance spent a total of nearly six years in the Workers' Paradise. I will never forget him telling me that it can be a capital offense to go fishing there.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2009-03-17 05:33  

#1  Yes, but the government keeps them poor - this is what leftists fervently wish for us. Of course, the leaders live in luxury, they deserve it.
Posted by: gromky   2009-03-17 04:35  

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