[Marxism] Audio: Rory Carroll on Raul Castro's Cuba

[Walter Lippmann <walterlx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Audio: Rory Carroll on Raul Castro's Cuba
Interesting commentary, and a blog which
anyone can contribute to. 4.5 minutes long

I wrote my own comment, and someone else wrote:

Rory must work for the Bush administration and not a news organization 
dedicated to accurate reporting about Latin America. Life in Cuba is good and 
much better than in the shrinking field of the western hemisphere's US allies.

Nutrition, health care and education for all Cubans is superior to what most US 
citizens have. The nation's accumulated wealth of improved infrastructure and 
public services allows for the exchange of medical expertise and doctors for 
Venezuelan fuel.

If only the US could boast a rate of incarceration for its citizens that 
approaches the low percentage behind bars in Cuba. The soaring crime, poverty, 
corruption and political genocides that chronically plague US allied countries 
such as Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras forces tens of thousands of refugees to 
venture north from there in search of wages in the US. Now the US is building a 
wall to keep them out.

Cubans back their system that allows them to study medicine instead of begging 
American tourists for change. The Cuban revolution against the US backed 
dictator Batista was a popular movement that took the country's resources back 
from US companies and resulted in a new constitution not written by the US, but 
by Cubans. The Cuban system is proudly supported by its people.
Posted by Zapotec on August 24, 2007 3:59 PM.
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LISTEN:
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/podcasts/2007/08/audio_rory_carroll_on_raul_cas.html

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