At 12:00 PM 5/29/01 -0500, you wrote:
>> >If that's not feasible, Third-World revolutions are practically
>>>doomed, though they may hobble along while trying to make
>>>accommodations to the world capitalist market. Even Cubans -- the
>>>best case of Third-World revolutions -- are having a hard time just
>>>getting by, increasingly dependent upon tourism & foreign investment.
>>>
>>>Yoshie
>>
>>This is not an accurate assessment of Cuba. This one is:
>>
>>Learn from Cuba, Says World Bank
>>
>>By Jim Lobe
>>
>>WASHINGTON, Apr 30 (IPS) - World Bank President James Wolfensohn Monday
>>extolled the Communist government of President Fidel Castro for doing ''a
>>great job'' in providing for the social welfare of the Cuban people.
>>
>>His remarks followed Sunday's publication of the Bank's 2001 edition of
>>'World Development Indicators' (WDI), which showed Cuba as topping
>>virtually all other poor countries in health and education statistics.
><snip>
>
>It's not news to socialists that Cuba tops "all other poor countries in
>health and education statistics," though it is news that the World Bank
>speaks well of Cuba. It doesn't mean, though, that Cubans have an easy
>time getting necessary medicines, adequate nutrition, and so on.
more specifically addressing Yoshie's previous point, the rise of tourism
and foreign investment in Cuba has encouraged the rise of the dollarized
sector, which has encouraged a rise in economic inequality within Cuba.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
