When you argue whether Castro was/is good for Cuba, remember what he replaced. The Batista regime was one of the most corrupt in the world at the time. Before Castro, literacy rates were extremely low, except if you were part of the priviledged classes, and health care was non-existant, again unless you were you were part of the priviledged classes. Disssent was treated about as harshly as now.
What's the difference - now people are educated, and have excellent health care - most children survive into adulthood etc. Castro's predessor was essentially bought and paid for by US interests and ran the country to the benefit of his US sponsors. You can talk all you want about the tyrrany of Castro, but given what came before he's mainly a Cuban patriot/ larry On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 09:40:23 -0500, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Angel wrote: > > Maybe Bush doesn't have to drag a few teachers out into a field. > > By his policies he can kill thousands upon thousands without actually pulling the > > trigger. > > No disagreement there! I think Iraq has proved that. While you can > argue that Mr. Hussein was doing a fair share of killing too, Mr. > Bush's duty is to protect America. All invading Iraq has done is > create more terrorists and depleted our military and monetary > resources. > > > How many educated Cubans have *you* spoken to recently? > > Have you ever been there? > > Yes and Cubans would argue that all of them are more educated than > Americans. If your point is that Castro has been good for Cuba, I'm > not going to agree with you there. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=11 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:132289 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
