[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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