Viva Fidel

Before Castro took over Cuba, Batista ran the island with a iron fist, turning the place into a giant, ignorant casino for the Mafia and sleazball Americans- one woman in nine was a prostitute. Once in power, Fidel kicked the Dons out, sent teachers into the countryside to educate the populace, built medical clinics that are still the envy of the world, and drafted a constitution that would have made our founding fathers proud. Fidel sent relief teams to third world countries to try to improve living conditions, his army defeated the Apartheid forces of South Africa in a legendary battle in Angola...
Literacy in Cuba rivals that of the US, and any poverty that exists there is due to the embargo...every community has day-care centers that are 'free'...while most Americans have to take a second or third job just to make ends meet,
and are generally miserable, the Cuban people relax in a traquil jovail atmospere full of kindly mirth. There never was any Soviet 'subsidy'- sugar was traded for machine parts.

But in the last 14 years the noose that President Kennedy put around Cuba has tightened, forcing innovations- Cuba is now the worlds leader in developing novel methods for raising organic produce... Americans who want a 'regime change' (there) are advocating for a Cuban people who would be fat, dumb, hiding from muggers and killers, harried, and totally exploited by corporate greed.... Is it any wonder that Fidel has to maintain strict control over the island, given the arrogant stupid Empire 90 miles away? (Incidentally, Cuba is the only country to quarantine AIDS victims. As a result , they do not have an aids epidemic, unlike all their neighbors. ....Soap operas on tv are restricted, as well as trashy 'dime-store' novels, in order to keep the people from debasing themselves with the inane).