“A Cuban court has sentenced two artists critical of the communist state to … prison,” Raw Story reported on Saturday, June 25, 2022 (read story here). “Rapper Maykel Castillo, 39,… was sentenced to nine years, while 34-year-old performance artist Luis Manuel Otero Alca[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Cuba’
June 25th, 2022 - 4:20 pm § in Foreign Affairs, Politics
Cuba reminds us what it’s like to lose freedom
January 12th, 2022 - 11:27 pm § in Foreign Affairs, Health
Surprise! Cuba is a Covid-19 vaccine powerhouse
Cuba’s homegrown biotech sector has developed FIVE vaccines against Covid-19, all of which offer 90%-plus efficacy. Cuba pours resources into healthcare, and has doctors and clinics in every neighborhood. To fight Covid-19, it’s vaccinating every Cuban over age 2, and most of its people [...]
February 7th, 2021 - 2:05 am § in Economics, Foreign Affairs
Is Cuba turning capitalist?
“Cuba has announced it will allow private businesses to operate in most industries, in what is a major reform to its state-controlled economy,” BBC reported on Saturday, February 6, 2021. BBC‘s correspondent in Cuba says “the step essentially opens up almost all economic acti[...]
January 11th, 2019 - 10:25 pm § in Politics
A Cuban View of America
The United States is an oligarchy, not a democracy The country that presents itself as a universal model of democracy does not meet the basic standards of a system in which the majority makes decisions[...]
January 10th, 2019 - 11:26 am § in Donald Trump, Foreign Affairs
IS Cuba Still Communist?
Can Cuba Emerge Under the Pax Sinica? Fidel Castro was a classical Leninist. He violates Marxism by believing that one can create a communist society without first developing a strong middle class. The result of that, wherever Leninism has been tried, is the creation of a totalitarian bureaucratic [...]
November 3rd, 2018 - 12:41 am § in Misc.
Castro’s Claims About The CIA Were Correct
THE CIA PLOTTED AGAINST CASTRO AND KENNEDY! When I read Fidel Castro’s autobiography I was skeptical. Fidel described what seemed impossible efforts by the CIA to undermine his government. Worse yet, Fidel suggested that these action of the CIA were done without permission of President [...]
October 13th, 2018 - 1:07 am § in Misc.
Castro on Education Versus Consumer Goods
Fidel Castro: My Life: A Spoken Autobiography Quotes shared via Kindle: “Well, I’d tell them that the consumer society is one of the most frightening, terrifying inventions of developed capitalism today in this phase of neoliberal globalization. It is disastrous, just awful, because I try to[...]
Can someone call a doctor?
While we complain about our broken healthcare system in the United States, there are 5 billion people worldwide who lack access to surgical care. http://www.bbc.com/news/health-32452249 &nbs[...]