tama (1000+ posts) Sun Aug-21-11 09:04 PM
Response to Reply #96
135. Don't know about that
but I know that when the special period happened with soviet collapse and Cuba practically lost all access to oil, nobody starved to death, health and education systems did not collapse, the country made u-turn to small scale organic and sustainable farming and people adopted a healthier diet of mostly veggies and little meat.
I love these teary eyed Socialists.
Watch No Reservations, Cuba. As much as Tony Bourdain attempted to shine a positive light on the country, the decay and rot of Socialism has destroyed it.The lovers of baseball have a wonderful stadium to go watch their teams in. Just don't mind the fact that none of the lights for night games work anymore. Don't bother worrying that half the roof is gone, no bother, it's a tropical paradise!
Wanna work? There's tons of foreign restaurants opening up, but if you are Cuban, you have no hope of EVER
eating in one. You, comrade, can't afford it.
Be like Tony. Those half falling down buildings? Call them beautiful, but don't mind the gaping holes in them.
While the spirit of the Cuban People is alive and well, Castro has done a bang up job of turning it into a shit hole.
Oh, BTW, Bourdain NEVER left Havana, I wonder why?