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Boutique

via_unoA few yards from the Plaza de San Francisco are the glamorous display windows of the Via Uno store. Leather shoes with spike heels, a bit useless for the uneven sidewalks of Havana. Pleated bags with gilt edges which seem to hold the world, to have room for the whole city. Curious people stop in front of the glass and some women go in for a closer look, although very few come out with a purchase in their hands. There is the teenager there who is about to turn fifteen, insisting that her mother drop her savings on some dusty red ankle boots. Also the functionary of a new corporation, mouth agape and eyebrows raised before the prices which run to three figures. On the other side of the street — directly across from the door of the boutique — an old woman reaches out her hand, asking for money.

Like an over-exposed photograph, social contrasts are perceived ever more strongly in Cuban life. While many wake up with the anxious question, “What am I going to eat today?” a new class — with hard currency in their pockets — boasts of consuming  items from exclusive stores. People who, thanks to corruption, private businesses, remittances sent from abroad, or government privileges, have access to more expensive clothes, better food, products out of reach for the vast majority. In tourist areas this chiaroscuro stands out more sharply. It is here where the different levels are more visible, more painful. It is here, where the concept of “equality,” still heard in countless slogans, still dwelling — like a mirage — in the minds of so many outside our borders, is given the lie.

Under the reflected glare from the sharp letters of an illuminated sign, a gentleman sells peanuts in paper cones. Not a single syllable of his cry — Peanuts! Peanuts! — is heard within that air-conditioned store, much less in the dressing room where someone zips herself into an article of luxury.

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  1. Mervin23
    Marzo 24th, 2012 at 19:42

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    http://www.debragarner.com/debras-dvd/

  2. Damir
    Marzo 23rd, 2012 at 03:22

    You petty little miami sewage inhabitants obviously do not realise that with every personal attack, you make Damir more right and yourselves more dumb, right?

    Fortunately wrong.

    Keep your vomit. It flies right back into your faces.

    And that works for me just fine.

  3. Damir
    Marzo 23rd, 2012 at 03:19

    Freedomfree shackles, you are on LSD. Get help.

    And read what Damir writes with MORE focus.

    You are delusional.

  4. FREEDOM RINGS
    Marzo 21st, 2012 at 17:29

    DAMIR, your the REGIME apologist and cheerleader for team Fidel. In cuba the people are hungry and the men shirtless. I have seen belts rapped around shoes to keep the sole from falling apart. Please do not blame the so called embargo as China sells plenty of shoes and even to Cuba. The ruling class is who is screwing the Cuban population. Soon the Pope will visit and the worlds attention will be on Cuba. Se va formar , can’t wait.

  5. Damir
    Marzo 13th, 2012 at 07:30

    How about this bit, directly from the above post. Self-declaration of being a liar:

    “People who, thanks to corruption, private businesses, remittances sent from abroad, or government privileges, have access to more expensive clothes, better food”

    So, there I S a BETTER FOOD AND CLOTHES available in Cub, after all!!!

    Who knew?

    Our “heros” the team “yoani” always said the oposite.

    Does this mean we cannot trust them?

    Of course it does!!!

  6. Damir
    Marzo 13th, 2012 at 07:26

    No content, just bullshift.

    Is that the best the team “yoani” and their delusional little servants can do?

    No. They cannot even do that. The nazist cia and their apparatchiks write the stuff these blind and deranged slaves then pretend to author here.

    And given the poor quality of that material, these cia elements must be almost as deranged…

  7. John
    Marzo 11th, 2012 at 16:29

    D.A.M.I.R.

    “Ranting and trolling just to have your fake names on the net…” Yep, that’s you.

  8. Damir
    Marzo 10th, 2012 at 21:46

    NOt that a single nazist propaganda posts here have anything to do with the “boutique” issue here.

    Ranting and trolling just to have your fake names on the net…

    Bunch of losers.

  9. Damir
    Marzo 10th, 2012 at 06:28

    A cr##in poster of 125, one of many pioneers of the support brigade - the deranged club of losers hoping that there will be someone, anyone really, to take them seriously yet no takers to date - needs her empty skull examined.

    There’s something called “sarcasm”. That is what the use of nazist gulag term is. Just to show further how st**id the ignorant really is, the word “gulag” does not mean the “System of prisons in the Soviet Union”.

    Not that educating an i^^t is possible, but for the benefit of normal, mental health issues-free readers (the people who laugh at you and the team “yoani” reading your s***d posts and “truths”), although I’m sure that unlike the mentally defficient morons who think they are Cubans after they spent a few years on the island, like the copy and paste creep, “gulag” is an acronym, not a word, let alone the “name” for a “System of prisons”, like the dumbest ignorant of all writes in her/his unsurpassed id**cy. It’s an acronym of an agency that administered and maintained the prisons.

    Contrary to your knee-jerk reaction (since you cannot think, that much is obvious) the agency was NOT filling the prisons. It was in charge of mundane things like food, clothes, fences, windows etc. Because it was poorly managed it became a synonimous with hard work and hard life.

    Look it up cr**in. Learn a thing or two before you post. The world already knows you are a de**il (think mentally ill…) no need to emphasise it every day.

    Oh, that one just zoomed past his/her empty skull too…

    P.S.

    Just so you know before you open your toothless and brainless mouth again, majority of gulag managers have ended up in the West, and became “entrepreneurs”.

    It was on the net a few years ago when a number of families tried to find them to charge them with human rights abuses.

    The scum were always “some kind of pragmatic capitalists” in their hearts. One of them even said that his greatest fun was to torture those he knew were actually devoted communists.

    So screw you and your anti-communist rants you mo**on. It is ALWAYS the CAPITALIST SCUM that make the trouble and then blame the communists for it.

    Look it up, it’s all on the net waves, in sync with the “social networking” reBolution, as one of you cre**ns would say.

  10. La Guajira
    Marzo 8th, 2012 at 21:12

    I sorry, I wrote in Spanish. I think Juan Manuel Santos traveled to Cuba to meet “the guerrillas father”.in.order to obtain help in finishing the cruel and nasty war that has that country in a violent chaos

  11. Griffin
    Marzo 8th, 2012 at 16:45

    To understand why revolutions so often go wrong, watch this excellent video lecture from Bill Whittle:

    The Battle of Big Ideas, Part 1: CONSTRAINED vs. UNCONSTRAINED

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....playnext=1

    Good stuff.

  12. John
    Marzo 8th, 2012 at 16:06

    Griffin #166, made me laugh out loud!

  13. Humberto Capiro (El Cibergues@)
    Marzo 8th, 2012 at 14:27

    “We reiterate that Cuba will not return to the OAS, and it is not interested in having any relationship with the organization that has served for purposes of domination, occupation and aggression,” Rodriguez said.

    “The OAS serves to the United States as a platform to attack and plunder Latin America and the Caribbean countries,” Rodriguez added.

    IN CUBAN WE SAY! QUE PONGAN EL HUEVO! TO LAY THE EGG, MAKE UP YOUR MIND! THE CASTROFASCISTS THROWING ANOTHER TEMPER TANTRUM AND POINTING THE FINGER AT EVERYONE BUT THEMSELVES AS THE REASON WHY THEY ARE NOT INVITED TO THE SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS!

    WASHINGTON POST: Cuba foreign minister blames Washington for its exclusion from Summit of the Americas

    HAVANA — Cuba is accusing Washington of pressuring to keep the island nation from attending next month’s Summit of the Americas.

    Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez says it’s no surprise given past U.S. policy toward the communist-run island.

    He calls it a “chronicle of an exclusion foretold,” playing off the title of a novella by Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

    Rodriguez spoke at a news conference Thursday, a day after President Raul Castro met with Juan Manuel Santos of summit host Colombia.

    Santos indicated that his country would not be inviting Cuba.

    Members of the leftist ALBA bloc of nations had proposed a possible summit boycott if Cuba was not invited.

    U.S. officials say Cuba does not meet the summit’s standards for democracy.

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....story.html

  14. Humberto Capiro (El Cibergues@)
    Marzo 8th, 2012 at 13:45

    YOUTUBE: “Fariñas, the indomitable mulatto” - A short film by Carlos Hernando- Guillermo Fariñas is a political dissident who used hunger strikes to fight for democracy and human rights in Cuba. In 2010 he conducted a hunger and thirst strike demanding the release of several political prisoners. In October of that year, the European Parliament awarded the Sakharov Prize Fariñas for Freedom of Conscience. ‘Fariñas, el mulato indomable’ - cortometraje de Carlos Hernando -Guillermo Fariñas es un disidente polĂ­tico que utiliza las huelgas de hambre para luchar por la democracia y los derechos humanos en Cuba. Durante el año 2010 realizĂł una huelga de hambre y sed reclamando la liberaciĂłn de varios presos polĂ­ticos. En octubre de ese año, el Parlamento Europeo concediĂł a Fariñas el Premio Sajarov para la Libertad de Conciencia.-SPANISH ONLY!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....ture=share

    Guillermo Fariñas Hernández (born 3 January 1962) (”El Coco”) is a Cuban doctor of psychology,[1] independent journalist[2] and political dissident in Cuba. He has conducted 23 hunger strikes over the years to protest various elements of the Cuban regime.[3] He has stated that he is ready to die in the struggle against censorship in Cuba.[2]Fariñas was born in Santa Clara. He won medals in 1981 while a Cuban soldier in Angola, when he fought under Colonel Antonio Enrique Luzon, and he was wounded in battle during the war. In 1982 Fariñas went to the U.S.S.R. to Tambov for military education. In 1993 he was elected in Cuba, as the General Secretary of Healthcare Union Workers. In 1995 he was sent to jail after blowing the whistle on corrupt activities of the hospital board director.[citation needed] In an 2007 interview with Harper’s magazine (”The Battle of Ideas”) Fariñas described State Security officers detaining him in Santa Clara, forcibly committing him to a psychiatric hospital ward overnight, and supervising his injection with unknown drugs. Fariñas’s father was also part of the Cuban military forces, and fought in the Congo under Che Guevara in the 1960s.

  15. Griffin
    Marzo 8th, 2012 at 13:39

    Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos says Cuba will not be invited to the Americas Summit in Colombia next month

    The US had opposed Cuba’s participation, saying the meeting should only be open to democracies.

    The Americas Summit usually involves only members of the Organisation of American States (OAS), and Cuba was suspended from the organisation in 1962 because of its communist system.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/worl.....a-17295741

  16. Anónimo
    Marzo 8th, 2012 at 13:23

    Noooo, you got all wrong. Fidel is an undercover CIA operative. It’s all in his book, but you must use a code to read it properly.

  17. Griffin
    Marzo 8th, 2012 at 13:16

    AnĂłnimo …Yup. That’s the ‘tell”.

  18. Anónimo
    Marzo 8th, 2012 at 12:44

    There it is, the “Illuminati” link. All the conspiracy theorist nuts post that one sooner or later.

  19. Griffin
    Marzo 8th, 2012 at 12:38

    In #164 redcardinal wrote: “For those who dont know what I am talking about…”

    We have no idea what you’re talking about. Ever.

  20. Griffin
    Marzo 8th, 2012 at 12:36

    US doesn’t expect Cuba upheaval

    US military leaders don’t expect Cuba’s reforms of its Soviet-style economy to lead to “dramatic change,” a key US general said Wednesday.
    “I don’t see a dramatic change happening in the future,” General Douglas Fraser, head of the US Southern Command, told reporters at a press briefing.
    He acknowledged that the Havana government “is in transition” but said real change on the Communist island would occur via “evolution.”
    “We are just monitoring that situation to help us understand what we’ll see in the future,” he told reporters.
    He said that Washington is “preparing,” however, for the unlikely possibility that a change in Cuba’s political regime leads to a mass exodus of Cubans on rafts and rickety boats.

    http://www.google.com/hostedne.....1e8112.6d1

  21. redcardinal
    Marzo 8th, 2012 at 12:09

    Is Castro fremason or part of the so called ILLUMINATI ? Does exist a plan for Cuba 2012?
    Humberto… should look to find out more about Castros with his research,copy-paste

    For those who dont know what I am talking about …listen here a bit about Illuminati;

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=related

    (To understand is better to watch all videoa)

  22. pan
    Marzo 8th, 2012 at 04:41

    Castro’$ think they own Cuba and its resources. The cubans in Guantanimo recently took thier public protest to tbe streets. The “Shit is hitting the fan”,as the greengos say.

  23. redcardinal
    Marzo 7th, 2012 at 23:16

    USA is planning to go communistic like Cuba so with all the rest of the communist countries of Americas will unite with Cuba…so there is no more need to change Cuba to democracy when all Americas will be communism and socialism…Humberto dont believe the politics, medias..they just lie…because they all work together for the world communism in the future because as you know we are all socialist now.

  24. Humberto Capiro (El Cibergues@)
    Marzo 7th, 2012 at 23:08

    YOU CANNOT COME TO THIS A.O.S. PARTY UNLESS YOURE A MULTI-PARTY DEMOCRACY NOT A FASCIST OLIGARCHY! FIDEL & RAUL CASTRO!!! CAPISCE?? BESIDES “THE MUMMY” & “LA CHINA” HAVE ALWAYS SAID THEY DONT WANT TO BE PART OF O.A.S.! WHAT’S UP WITH THAT? THEY MEAN NO, BUT REALLY MEAN YES?? SO SCHIZOPHRENIC! LIKE SOME PEOPE HERE WHO WILL REMAIN NAMELESS! AND I MEAN NAMELESS!! LITERALLY!!!

    WASHINGTON POST: Colombian President Santos indicates Cuba not likely to receive regional summit invite

    HAVANA — Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos held talks with President Raul Castro on Wednesday amid a controversy over whether Cuba will be allowed to participate in a regional summit, but left indicating that an invitation is not forthcoming.“As we have said from the beginning, (the summit) is a matter that requires consensus, a consensus that unfortunately we have not been able to find,” Santos said at Havana’s international airport Wednesday night prior to departing.“We made it clear to President Castro that although we truly appreciate his desire to be part of this gathering, under such circumstances without having reached consensus it is very difficult to extend an invitation to him.” U.S. officials say Cuba, ruled since 1959 by brothers Fidel and Raul Castro, does not meet OAS standards of democracy and thus has no business taking part. “They don’t fit the definition of democratic countries and the development of democracy in the hemisphere,” U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said last week at a hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. “So at this point we see absolutely no basis and no intention to invite them to the summit.”

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....story.html

  25. american businessmen
    Marzo 7th, 2012 at 22:58

    Maybe not just… Humberto…but all the homeless,unemployed Miami Cubans,the sons of the old dissidents..will be helped by the Castro family when they move to USA and be its citizens. So the changes will happen and the present communists of Cuba will help their own people in Miami,not leave them to suffer homeless and hungry. They may get some jobs like gardeners,cleaners,drivers and bodyguards for the elites of the Cuban communists who will move to the rich areas of the USA,Florida soon…so they are close to Cuba and live in both countries USA and Cuba. This make sense and for sure will happen this year or next year for sure.I dont know if the dissidents like Yoani will get this chance and be helped by the Royal Cuba’s family to get a job from them.

  26. american businessmen
    Marzo 7th, 2012 at 22:16

    Some of the Royal Castro gods…little gods may decide to leave not only in Beverly Hill but everywhere in the best rich areas of Florida,New York and California…where they will be near Humberto…and meet him in the rainbow club or some strip club where the Humberto lives. So Humberto will be friends with them and who knows they may help him to be working for them too…instead of being homeless and welfare soon.

    I know that Humberto will refuse first but than for sure he will take their offer and work for Castros..maybe against all the dissidents,old and new. Perhaps they offer a job also to others who post here and of course their driver or bodyguards will be Cuba libre and Damir..which will help to introduce Humberto to the Royal Castro family who for sure will be the new citizens of USA…this or next year and move there

  27. european rebel
    Marzo 7th, 2012 at 22:00

    After Royal Castros leave for Beverly hill buying there the Michel Jacson’s home and those of other famous artists…the present communists will create many parties in Cuba and they will be called democratic,socialist,republican and what ever,but they will be run all by the cloned little castros and the Cuban communists who will put in jails all the old dissidents’s families of those who are now in the Cuba’s prisons to meet so there their parents and if they are lucky they will be together with present dissidents like Yoani and others..who will be in the labor camps,working for few beans and bananas…but only if they work hard.The rest of the subhumans will be deleted as useless eaters. World banks will help Cuba and work hard to stay all the little castros in power,all the so called communists now,to be the future big capitalists-internationalists world tzars running so the world shared with other tzars

  28. european rebel
    Marzo 7th, 2012 at 21:40

    Castros now are at least 3-4 million little cloned one,the sons and grandsons of the communists and all those who have raped and killed the rest of the Cubans…copying the Russians or Soviet Union killing system or inquisition.After the god-Castro family leave the country for Beverly Hill in some famous home of an artist…Cuba will be run by the little castros…but as capitalists communists…but the rest will be punish by them even more.They will be called subhumans.The world elites will help little castros with loans to be big capitalists internationalist who will come to by together with Russian tzars most of the USA’s houses and lands taken from the Americans. The problem is that Chinese tzars after they buy all Canada..they may move down to take what is left from USA and that may create a big war,a big conflict between Cuban,russian and Chinese tzars,little cloned communists,mostly from the royal communist families. this happen in China and ex-Soviet Union,socialists of EU and of course is happening now in the red North and South America.Next to take over is Africa,Oceania and Middle East and they are all working on it and that is the easiest part to be occupied…

  29. Griffin
    Marzo 7th, 2012 at 20:46

    anton, Castro’s son is an artist, not a dictator in training. Che’s son too. The problem for the regime is all the old Heroes of La Revolucion are in their 80’s. No new ruler will have the authority of Castro. That applies to the people too. The young don’t care about the stories of the bad old Batista days. They care about how they will feed their families today & tomorrow.

  30. Help
    Marzo 7th, 2012 at 20:41

    Interesting video Humberto, explains why Cuba won’t allow inspectors into its prisons, hospitals, or anything else. I’ve seen some residences just as bad.

    The US prison at Guantanamo is really a country club by comparison.

  31. Humberto Capiro (El Cibergues@)
    Marzo 7th, 2012 at 19:22

    SENT THIS TO MY E-MAIL LISTS OF HUMAN RIGHT NGO’S, PRESS, EMBASSIES IN USA & THE VATICAN!FEEL FREE TO PASS IT ON TO YOUR SOURCES/CONTACTS!

    VIDEO SMUGGLED OUT OF CUBAN JAILS BY MEMBERS OF UNPACU. NOTICE THE FILTHY AND SUB-HUMAN CONDITIONS THAT THE CASTRO DICATORSHIP KEEP ITS POLITICAL PRISONERS. RECORDED DECEMBER 9, 2011.

    YOUTUBE: CUBA: Imágenes inéditas de calabozos en Santiago de Cuba - Opositores miembros de UNPACU logran entrar en las celdas de la Unidad de la Policía Micro 9, Santiago de Cuba la cámara de un celular para documentar las condiciones de los calabozos castristas.-
    Unpublished images of jail cells in Santiago de Cuba - Member the dissident group UNPACU manage to enter into the cells of the Police Station Micro 9, in Santiago de Cuba, a cellphone camera to documented the conditions of the jail cells of the Castro regime.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....u.be&a

    The Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU) is an umbrella group of dissident organizations, based primarily in Santiago de Cuba, but also in neighbouring provinces of eastern Cuba. UNPACU seeks democratic change in Cuba via non-violent means. Since UNPACU’s creation in mid-2011, its members have faced constant harassment and intimidation form the Cuban authorities, including arbitrary detention. One of UNPACU’s members, prisoner of conscience Wilman Villar Mendoza died in January 2012 following a hunger strike in protest at his four-year prison sentence following a summary trial. This repression is part of a general crackdown against dissidents in the eastern provinces of Cuba which has gathered pace since mid-2011.

  32. american businessmen
    Marzo 7th, 2012 at 19:16

    GRIFFIN…the anti-Yoani commenters…should be with Yoani and help her, example suggest here to WORK… If she decide to do some work in the fieldS and help the peasents to produce more beans and bananas will be like Ernest Miller Hemingway… so it is good to get some experience and not do nothing.
    The work makes people BUSY and happy…so the best is to leave the dark rooms and get out in the sun…beach and not stay all the time inside the Havana…the old museum or Cuba’s getho.
    If she does not like the sun and beach,the paradise of nature of the island,she can work in the farms and eat some more food there,feed Cubans and herself and put all some extra weight…Tell to Yoani this please…make her happy.

  33. american businessmen
    Marzo 7th, 2012 at 19:01

    If one Castro dies there will be other Castro and if he die too,there will be a new Castro…because the Castro family is like the Bush and Clinton families; the holy families. Cubans will cry and some will be happy each time a Castro comes and go…but Havana will be a old museum and the people in it just like images that make the museum live or alive.UN has in mind to make all the world cities like Havana and turn them to gethos…and their people like zombies…specially in EU and North America.The world wil be all as Cuba and the distribution of wealth in the 99% will make all the world humans like Cubans…happy to worship their god-elites or holy families,so the plan is to create the world FEUDALISM…DESPOTISM

  34. John
    Marzo 7th, 2012 at 18:42

    Thank you Griffin. A thoughtful sensible post as always.

  35. Griffin
    Marzo 7th, 2012 at 18:19

    John,

    I don’t think there will be riots when the Castro’s die, but their will be a great deal of confusion about what happens next. The regime will try to carry on, put on a big show of the State Funeral and try to exhort La Revolucion! But nobody will buy into it. The real challenge will come when Hugo dies and the new gov’t of Venezuela cuts off the free oil. Venezuela will be happy to sell their oil to Cuba, but not for free anymore. No oil means no taxis, no busses, no farm equipment, no industry, no electricity. The whole thing grinds to a halt.

    Keep in mind, economists around the world are expecting a second dip in the recession as the Eurozone crisis comes to a head and China’s economic problems trip them up. The US is far from out of the woods either. When that happens, the number of tourists travelling to Cuba will drop. So the one money-maker in their economy will be hit too, at the worse possible time.

    People will starve again, as in the early 90’s. Then they will riot. But this time, there will be thousands of tourists in country seeing it with their own eyes. Unlike the 90’s when the Castros kept the worst of their crisis hidden, this next Special Period will be blogged, twittered and YouTubed.

    If I may quote Cuba Liar: “The truth will be heard.” Only this time, it will be the actual truth, not the regime propaganda.

  36. Griffin
    Marzo 7th, 2012 at 18:03

    CIMEQ and the myths of Cuba’s healthcare system,

    Cuba has two parallel health care systems…One for its regular citizens usually lacking a lot of supplies, with Hospitals lacking medicine, paramedical supplies and with old equipments and superstructure; the other is the one you can see in Michael Moore’s documentary or even get in touch personally when a foreigner visits Cuba. CIMEQ belongs to this second kind of institution,

    …CIMEQ IS NOT a health care institution to regular Cubans. It is for government officials, and it has been Fidel Castro’s personal hospital since it was opened in 1982. It was built close to his permanent residence (unknown by the majority of Cubans) as you can see in the next aerial picture:

    http://opencuba.blogspot.com/2.....-care.html

    Keep this page bookmarked for the next time the Useful Idiots parrot the propaganda of Cuba’s excellent healthcare system.

  37. John
    Marzo 7th, 2012 at 17:59

    Good post Griffin. I’m interested in your opinion - what do you think will actually happen when Fidel and Raul die? Will there be riots in the streets or just more of the same old same old with a younger regime??

  38. Griffin
    Marzo 7th, 2012 at 17:42

    In #146 Help wrote: “There really is nothing to discuss regarding Cuba, the Marxist experiment has been a colossal failure in every respect.”

    Ah, but that’s what we can discuss. The regime will fall. That much is certain. The only question is when & how. It cannot survive long after Fidel dies, and if the Cuban people are lucky, they’ll get a hat trick this year: Fidel, Raul & Hugo Chavez all go off to meet their maker. (Good luck to them, they’ll need it.) The paranoid Castros have made sure there are no possible successors waiting in the wings.

    But what happens next? If their economy collapses again when their Venezuelan sugar daddy cuts off the oil, Special Period II, how will the people respond? Bread riots are not a pretty thing. How will the regime respond? If the past is any example, they have three basic responses to public protests: 1) Violence. 2) More violence, or 3) a lot more violence.

    Will the post-Castro regime introduce political reforms to go along with the limited economic reforms? Free elections with a multi-party system? Free speech? Freedom of travel? That’s what the people want, but is the regime prepared to give it? If they do, it may mean the end of La Revolucion, or at the very minimum, accepting the fact they have to share power and political space with other ideas. But if they don’t grant the people freedom, the people will rise up and take it, sweeping the old guard into the dustbin of history.

  39. John
    Marzo 7th, 2012 at 17:25

    Griffin #145 - agree; Anonimo #144,143 I think you’ve hit the nail on the head; Humberto #139 - Couldn’t agree more. I wonder if there’s a website where Damir is ranting his head off about old Yugoslavian conflicts?

  40. Help
    Marzo 7th, 2012 at 17:23

    I agree Griffin. Anything hateful is a waste of bandwidth actually.

    Too bad Marxists aren’t interested in reality. There really is nothing to discuss regarding Cuba, the Marxist experiment has been a colossal failure in every respect. I think their greatest failure is not economic, but creating a society ruled by dogma and hate.

    If we’re smart, we’ll learn from their mistakes.

    The only good things in Cuba, like the people and the sun, were there before Fidel came along. Or maybe it wasn’t, maybe Fidel created the sun? I’m sure Cube Libra thinks so.

  41. Griffin
    Marzo 7th, 2012 at 16:34

    For the record: I am not interested in hearing about anybody’s sex life. Boooooooooorrrrrrrrrrrrriiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnggggggg!

    Can we get a moratorium on all that?

    Let’s discuss Cuba, Yoani’s essays and related topics. Anything else is a waste of bandwidth.

  42. Anónimo
    Marzo 7th, 2012 at 15:51

    UnSor, is a declared bisexual, she was also abused in childhood; her biography is posted on hundreds of blog postings as she loves to speak against whoever contradicts her beliefs. She is a bit funny as she has many imaginiary boyfriend-girlfriends, imaginary six-figure salary and imaginary travels to all over the world. She only travels to metal festivals where she dreams of being f**ed in a tent.

    Damir, on the other side had an active role in butchering civilians during the Serb-rest of world conflicts. He might be dangerous because he is a lunatic dreaming of blowing up the entire western world that destroyed his peacefully Eastern European existance

  43. Anónimo
    Marzo 7th, 2012 at 15:41

    Here’s my guess:

    Damir: Could not get any attention or love growing up. Self-loathing, anger problem. Deranged.

    UnSoricel: Closet homosexual and ashamed of it. Comments way too much on other’s sex lives. Frustrated. Overcompensates.

  44. Griffin
    Marzo 7th, 2012 at 14:35

    Hola John,

    Why is it all the anti-Yoani commenters are so deranged?

    OK, to be fair, one of them posts under a dozen different names (redcardinal, american businessmen, anton…etc). But the cry-babies are just as irrational & neurotic, if less amusing.

  45. european rebel
    Marzo 7th, 2012 at 14:04

    Humberto…to change Cuba first we must change the whole corrupted world who created the Cuba’s hell..which is a hell inside the hell.So let the people talk about everything in the world where Cuba is also…dont censure them…as Cubans do.
    It is still an old fighting between the good and evil which for the leftist is in the west and for the right wing of leftists is in the east. Maybe is time to look both like you look in the same shit…but it is a rainbow world all faded into the dark

  46. John Bibb
    Marzo 7th, 2012 at 13:54

    ***
    HI GRIFFIN–#118. Good comment–but never try to convince Damir with actual information. He lives in an alternate universe with completely different “reality”! It’s unjust to confuse him with facts.
    ***
    HOLA GRIFFIN–#118. Buen commento–pero nunca haga la lucha a convencir Damir con informacion actual. El vive en un universo alternative con “realidad” completmente differente. Es injusto confundirle con factos.
    ***
    John Bibb
    ***

  47. Anónimo
    Marzo 7th, 2012 at 13:35

    Maybe we should all start to join the Steel And Fire workplace of UnSor. And we should all talk about Pop Music :) Just for a change

    http://steelandfire.20m.com/contact.html

  48. Humberto Capiro (El Cibergues@)
    Marzo 7th, 2012 at 13:28

    I THOUGHT THIS WAS A BLOG FOR CUBA AND CUBAN ISSUES!! ALL THESE AGENTS/APOLOGISTS STILL TRYING THEIR HARDEST TO SHIFT THE CONVERSATION TO EVERYTHING ELSE BUT! SOO PREDICTABLE!

  49. Griffin
    Marzo 7th, 2012 at 13:22

    Un Soricel wrote: “as ooposed to Larry King and the soft bs you swollow to keep your mind numb and for you to indulge… â€in counter revolution’ It it aint American is not worth it - is your motto !.”

    You know nothing about me. I have never watched Larry King in my life, I rarely watch any TV & I am not American. You are full of it and project your obsessions all over the place.

  50. redcardinal
    Marzo 7th, 2012 at 13:18

    It is a very interesting awakening happen here in the comments and in the world;1-99%,classes,payments,governments,politicians,corruption,elites and slaves,rich and poor…BUT who decide what the payments,prices,bills,tax and fees should be,…how high and who profit from the big world usury,the crime against the humanity and God?

    The humans,a group of them,a mix of the elites of every countries,elites who cheat,rob,destroy their own people.They have many flags,many ideologies,religions but they all are responsible for the countries and wotldwide demolition. Time to lock these human beasts in chain..to put evils back in pandora box…to put the jiny in the bottle again. Who will be pro this changes for good…anyone…yes or no ?

  51. redcardinal
    Marzo 7th, 2012 at 12:56

    Please people from both sides of the river dont fight…There is allways a design,a plan,a mind or head which use both arms and hands…left and right,east and west.Now is time to change all,to wake up…demolitions and earthquakes and noise are needed. Where? Everywhere…in Europe,Middle East,North and South America and other colonies. People should all change,but of course every country wants the others to change but not itself…thinking is right…telling lies about itself and truth about others.The scene is a big mess in EU,NAU,ME etc but yet noone likes to see and talk about this mess,his mess if he lives in these parts of the world totally read for big demolition. Cuba is already gone,is all pulled down by the interior and exterior demolition and is no need to talk more about, but to look what it stands still in the world scene…which maybe is going ww3,bigger demolition

  52. Anónimo
    Marzo 7th, 2012 at 12:48

    Funny how a declared bi-sexual hates gay people that much. I guess it’s because she was married to one. My dear mouse, your diploma is highly praised at your job ( receptionist for a an online metal magazine).

  53. Griffin
    Marzo 7th, 2012 at 12:11

    Un Soricel wrote: “as ooposed to Larry King and the soft bs you swollow to keep your mind numb and for you to indulge… â€in counter revolution’ It it aint American is not worth it - is your motto !.”

    You know nothing about me. I have never watched Larry King in my life, I rarely watch any TV & I am not American. You are full of shit and project your obsessions all over the place.

  54. Un Soricel
    Marzo 7th, 2012 at 12:03

    Griffin I guess that points clearly to what a sheep you are… AlJazeera is seen as one of the pomoters and active supporters of the Arab Spring so pray they would support your revolution… Rossia Today has very different pow than the usual Western bs.. than many relate to since western media is as discredited as the eastern one… RT is supported with evidence - and acutally their report on Putin was correct and broke news of the arrests before the BBC etc.. … Keiser rants… but rants with proof.. as ooposed to Larry King and the soft bs you swollow to keep your mind numb and for you to indulge… ‘in counter revolution’

    It it aint American is not worth it - is your motto !.. yeah we know we are Marxist just because we do not underwrite that!!..

  55. Griffin
    Marzo 7th, 2012 at 11:29

    Un Soricel,

    I give you a serious and respectful answer and you reply with crude insults. It’s a joke that you complain about the politically corrupt “media” and then post a link to RT.com, the Vladimir Putin Network. The ranting idiot in the video clip, Max Keiser, also has a shows on Al Jazeera & Iranian Press TV. Now that’s journalistic credibility!

  56. Pamela
    Marzo 7th, 2012 at 11:18

    Oh, and I bet the patients that this young nurse attends to take her degree seriously as well. I love it how the socialists/marxists here complain that under capitalism, people are not “taken care of” and there is no “free,” and yet, when I point out that there most certainly is “free,” that same “free” is discounted as useless. So, which is it?

  57. Pamela
    Marzo 7th, 2012 at 11:15

    Now, let’s see, my friend’s child who graduated from college with a nursing degree, then the hospital who took her degree seriously enough to employ her. That’s one of many examples that I can think of. But if you don’t value a college degree granted in the U.S., don’t worry, we’ll survive.

  58. Un Soricel
    Marzo 7th, 2012 at 11:09

    Pamela, then you send you daughters there darling and then to meet me!! that was my argument… and see who takes their diploma seriously and where! Or ask Mr O to send his daughters there ! then we know it is Free and GOOD ! sort of..

    Anonimo popones, still craving for a bit of woman?? even gays get the urge for SooperGoose or just because I like fish I don’t necessarily wear skirts - sorry you cannot deal with your urges, since all you do is just blow wind in every direction… no problem Humbertito politics and sexuality mix quite well with denial!

    Griffin… well Jimmy Diamond would love you - me thinks you are a sheep… are you tryign to get a job with Jimmy do you practice butt kiss everyday??
    http://rt.com/programs/keiser-.....ax-keiser/

  59. Griffin
    Marzo 7th, 2012 at 10:07

    Raul Castro’s economic reforms are not “pragmatic capitalism” nor do they signal the start of a new era of economic liberalization. These limited changes are designed to channel as much foreign currency into the state coffers as possible, while filling the pockets of a few regime cronies. The purpose is regime survival. That’s all.

    Aside from the few Cubans who work in the tourism industry, the average Cuban has seen no benefit. On the contrary, the dual currency system has lead to inflation, corruption and increasing economic disparity. Hence, the impoverished peanut seller outside the Prada bag shop.

  60. Griffin
    Marzo 7th, 2012 at 10:07

    Raul Castro’s economic reforms are not “pragmatic capitalism” nor do they signal the start of a new era of economic liberalization. These limited changes are designed to channel as much foreign currency into the state coffers as possible, while filling the pockets of a few regime cronies. The purpose is regime survival. That’s all.

    Aside from the few Cubans who work in the tourism industry, the average Cuban has seen no benefit. On the contrary, the dual currency system has lead to inflation, corruption and increasing economic disparity. Hence, the impoverished peanut seller outside the Prada bag shop.

  61. Anónimo
    Marzo 7th, 2012 at 09:31

    This what UnSor wrote back in 2008. This should qualify her for an honorary PhD from University of Havana. Anyone can forward this to Granma.

    64.soopermouse

    February 19, 2008 at 9:52 pm

    The fundamental building block for a free, prosperous country is free speech.”
    Bullshit.

    I’m from Romania. Within my lifetime I have seen my country shifting violently from communism to “democracy”. A shitton of people in my country enjoyed the freedom of speech in 1990. It was good. It was awesome. And do you know what happened after 6 months? After we got tired of the right to freely call the politicians assholes?

    we realized that free speech doesnt buy shit and doesn’t pay bills. We saw ourselves falling from a standard of living that was somewhat better than the middle class in the USA is having right about now (free education, free healthcare, no unemployment, almost no crime) to being a third world country on par with… I don’t know… Uganda?

    Yeah, it’s nice to come talk from your privileged asshole POV about what is best for other people. Those who never asked for your hep or fucking opinion. And we have also seen in recent times , (Iraq for the slow) that it doesn’t work.

    It is my personal belief that dictatorship is a necessary form of government in the evolution of a nation. I am talking about its normal evolution, (the USA is an abnormality and should be treated as such from that POV). Why? because democracy and free speech don’t quite work without economic stability. Democracy is fine and dandy when the economy is prosperous and people can afford to talk. Until then, a dictatorship is a necessary phase in order to attain stability, create an infrastructure and a certain degree of institutionalized politics.

    So how about all of the privileged imperialist assholes start minding their own fuckign business and their own fucking country and leave others alone to make their own decisions?

  62. Griffin
    Marzo 7th, 2012 at 09:19

    UN Soricel,

    As the old saying goes, in democracy the people get the government they deserve. Sadly, the people voted for politicians who promised them personal wealth & public services for free. The politicians removed the regulations & oversight on banks. In the US the govt forced the banks to give mortgages to people who could not afford to pay for them. That was a Democratic Party policy championed by Obama which led to the sub-prime mortgage debacle that triggered the financial collapse of 2008.

    The socialist governments of Greece, Spain & Portugal bankrupted their countries with unsustainable public spending, bribing the peopl with their own money.

    It’s all to easy to point at politicians and bankers, but the people enabled them. There’s a lot of blame to go around but very few are taking responsibility. You would be a fool to place your trust in the hands of digital fascists like Anonymous who place themselves above the law, or expect the vandalizing Occupy mob with their tired recycled Marxist slogans to offer a viable solution.

  63. Anónimo
    Marzo 7th, 2012 at 09:15

    Mugshot of an abuser. Ussualy people who`ve been abuse during their childhood become abusive themselves. UnSor, stop blasting other people on the world wide web. Do it in real life, although there are not many real people around you. Only imaginary friends, imaginary fiances and imaginary sex partners.

    http://www.eurovisionfamily.tv.....e/profile/

  64. Pamela
    Marzo 7th, 2012 at 09:11

    Here’s that link:

    http://www.osfa.state.la.us/Ma....._11-17.pdf

  65. Pamela
    Marzo 7th, 2012 at 09:10

    Gee, UnSoricel, I wasn’t really speaking to you, but all you had to do was to google “TOPS Program Louisiana” if you were that curious. Here’s the link to the “imaginary free education” program that thousands of students in Louisiana use to have their college tuition fully paid for, i.e., free.

  66. Help
    Marzo 7th, 2012 at 08:59

    Griffin, close to 10% of US households are millionaire households. So the “we the 99%” is a sign of insanity and “millionaire Marxist” is no joke.

    Deloitte predicts it’ll be close to 20% by 2020: “the number of millionaire households in the country is projected to increase from an estimated 10.5 million in 2011 to 20.6 million in 2020.”

    Here’s the chart over the last few years:

    http://www.theatlantic.com/bus.....11/238458/

  67. Griffin
    Marzo 7th, 2012 at 08:49

    Of course there is good food in Cuba and if you have money, you can buy it. But on $20 per month salary, its damn hard to buy a bit of meat. Lobster is reserved for tourists only. The ruling Cuban oligarchy & their cronies eat very well. The rest of the Cuban people make do with beans & rice and a small ration of bread, cheese and ham.

    This corrupt system of privelage and poverty is what Yoani is writing about. So tell me, Dumber, are you criticizing the Cuban system or defending it? It’s so hard to tell from your rambling contradictory screeds.

  68. Un Soricel
    Marzo 7th, 2012 at 08:40

    Griffin, .. The people of Iceland elected their politicians and then threw them out of office… that may be so, though there are way to circumvent that.. and WikiLeaks had a big impact on shaping the change in Iceland more than any ‘democratic’ body…

    Secondly, you refer to politicians.. but what about Bankers and the Media… did any one elect them?? they stay for longer in power than anyone else, have bigger power in their hands and do as they please with impunity… So you democracy is like this in Cuba the political class commits abuses … in the West… the media and the banks commit abuses and are as un-elected… We all know in the UK the power is not at Westminster as much as power is not in the Whitehouse… Obama proved that clearly he is a symbol and not much else… he does what he is told…call he does what he has to do in the national interest of finance!

  69. Griffin
    Marzo 7th, 2012 at 07:34

    Dumber, in your silly rage you do get your facts mixed up. For example, you used the phrase “nazi gulag”. The Gulag was the System of prisons run by the Communists in the USSR, the very dictatorship which mentored Castro & Che when they built the Cuban gulag.

    As for the simplistic slogans about the 1% vs the 99%, have you ever wondered what the top 1% income
    level is? Try $250,000. That means if you make a mere $249,000 then you’re part of the “poor oppressed” 99%.

    If you want to see a real divide between the impoverished powerless masses and a rich & all powerful elite, then look at Cuba. The average Cuban struggles to exist on $20 per month while the rulers live in luxury in their confiscated Miramar mansions. If only the Cuban 99% could put their criminal regime on trial like the Icelanders are doing. The people of Iceland elected their politicians and then threw them out of office. The Cuban people have never had that opportunity under Castro.

  70. John
    Marzo 7th, 2012 at 07:15

    #113, 115, 116, 117, 118 - still wasting so much time writing shite on this “rediculous(sic) and useless site”.

  71. Damir
    Marzo 7th, 2012 at 06:51

    Or, how about this bit, directly from the above post. Self-declaration of being a liar:

    “People who, thanks to corruption, private businesses, remittances sent from abroad, or government privileges, have access to more expensive clothes, better food”

    So, there I S a BETTER FOOD available in Cub, after all!!!

    Just as Damir had always said!

    Here’s a thought: show me a usanian that eats caviar once a year and I’ll show you a filthy rich person.

    99% of usanians do not even know what is a caviar, or smoked mozzarella. Not even a regular one.

    Scaled down, the same situation is in Cuba. The “new businessmen” are the same type of crimsons in every country, not just in Cuba.

    And they are all radical right wing fanatics, not left-oriented revolutionars.

    So, eat that, id**ts.

    It tastes like peanuts, peanuts, only worse…

  72. Damir
    Marzo 7th, 2012 at 06:45

    Back to the lies of the team “yoani” and their pin up granny traitor:

    “many wake up with the anxious question, “What am I going to eat today?””

    Nothing could be further from the truth. Cubans are no longer lacking food.

    Luxuries, yes, after all, as the team “yoani” said the embargo is R E A L and is H U R T I N G Cuba.

    Hence, there are many things that are missing, or are very expensive because the country is struggling to trade with other countries, who are more affraid of the sanctions hitting them too, although the usa have now more trouble back home to think than to enforce embargo on countries trading with Cuba.

    None of these things is missing because “communism” had failed.

    It’s the “some kind of pragmatic capitalism” that had failed. There was never a single communist country in the world ever, hence it could not have failed, even if it wanted.

  73. Damir
    Marzo 7th, 2012 at 06:39

    Oh, yes…!!!

    “some kind of pragmatic capitalism”, especially the one made in the nazist gulag from where all you cry-babies come from, is the best thing ever.

    Ever since thetoilet paper, which separated you from your own shift and made you think you are invincible…

  74. Damir
    Marzo 7th, 2012 at 06:35

    Go tell that to all Icelanders who now live in a bankrupt state, thanks to the “wonders”, “advantages” and “opportunities”!!!

    Or Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, England, Hungary, Ukraine, Slovenia, Croatia, Romania, Bulgaria, Holland, Belgium ( a country that effectively doesn’t exist any more), Spain, and the list is growing by the second!!!!

  75. Damir
    Marzo 7th, 2012 at 06:27

    MOre garbage:

    http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/.....wsuit.html

    The victims of freedom and “democracy”, and most of all, the “some kind of pragmatic capitalism”.

    Or this “free enterprise” success story:

    http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/s.....ction.html

    Only 7 B I L L I O N S alienated from naive and gullible wannabe investors who believed in “capitalism” is a “paradise” full of opportunities!

    Go tell that to those 2 500 000 who have lost their jobs 3 years ago and are now scavenging the rubbish bins in rapidly deteriorating cities, like Chicago, Denver, Albuquerque, Atlanta, Boston, everywhere in the “capitalist paradise” usa…

  76. Un Soricel
    Marzo 7th, 2012 at 06:27

    As promised Help … you keep up with Charlie boy and the ugly did that ended the 60s (what a happy occurrence for the likes of you) …

    Now I will remind you of the SMF Jimmy Diamond JP Morgan the one that doesn’t mind some derivates genocide imposed on global scale before breakfast and in the evening contemplates what he’d done with his ‘warm’ and exercised smile…

    http://rt.com/programs/keiser-.....ax-keiser/
    You can even download it… boy….

    Have you heard… that in Iceland actually they dared put bankers and a PM on trial for terrorising society with such ‘derivative instruments’ of ‘capitalist glory’!!!

    @ Humbertito your Anonimo popones run amok yesterday … seem your popones is after a woman of all things??? a SUPERGOOSE to satisfy you ‘academic’ ego… and apparently a co-national of mine… So Humbertito if your supergrass ass wants a girl… what can you do but obey it!!.. What can you do if you are in denial about your sexuality too.. cos we know you are in denial about politics and your TRUE motives!!!

    @ Pamela baby @94, thank you for the LINK which was not there.. just like the FREE education which is not there !!! That’s what they tell you on tv and after that they add that unruly stupid kids do not want free education!! Education like a mortgage is one of the biggest keep in check in the West - never meant to liberate you but impoverish you…funny how both are run by corporate and parlty criminal enterprises! I should point to you that any diktator banker or corporate god can buy his degree and does that!!! so it is a racket like any other… and costs money if you want ‘the best education’ to keep your bank manager giving you the money!

  77. Damir
    Marzo 7th, 2012 at 06:22

    My post 111 now resonates even stronger, after the post 112.

    What a loser that delusional defender of Cuban traitors, the team “yoani”.

  78. John
    Marzo 7th, 2012 at 06:08

    #110 For such a “rediculous(sic) and useless traitor’s site”, it’s amazing how much garbage you add to it.

  79. Damir
    Marzo 7th, 2012 at 06:07

    Every single thing the anti-Cuban losers mention hire, like growing inequality among the people, the low salaries, the lack of food, everything indeed, applies to “some kind of pragmatic capitalism”.

    And a special mention goes to the “patriotic act” that makes any laws in Cuba look good.

    So, go and spy on your own people, for that is what the “patriotic act” is ordering you to do, losers.

    And wait down there in the sewage for the crumbles you call food.

    Your white “gods” will, eventually, send them to you…

  80. Damir
    Marzo 7th, 2012 at 06:01

    UnSoricel, exellently spotted in your post 23:

    “The west is bankrupt it need small countries to get out” The biggest” “capitalists” and “democrats” the conservative idiots are already on their way out and establishing themselves abroad:

    http://www.republicansabroadpanama.org/

    These are the same people who fund this rediculous and useless traitor’s site.

  81. Humberto Capiro (El Cibergues@)
    Marzo 6th, 2012 at 23:43

    I WONDER IF THIS MIGHT BE THE CHIP TO GET ALAN GROSS BACK! WHAT DO YOU THINK, Cuba Libre (La MENTIROTA & HOMOPHOBE & CASTROBOOTLICKER)? SINCE YOU ARE ALL KNOWING!!

    LATIN AMERICA HERALD TRIBUNE: Colombian Leader to Visit Cuba for Talks on Americas Summit - Caracas,Tuesday- March 6,2012

    BOGOTA – Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos will travel to Havana this week for talks with Cuba’s Raul Castro and Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez on possible Cuban participation in the upcoming Americas Summit in Cartagena, Colombia.

    The main purpose of the trip, Santos told reporters here Monday, “is to have the opportunity to talk personally, as good friends talk.”

    The question of Cuban participation in the summit came to the fore after Cuba’s partners in the ALBA group – Venezuela, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Bolivia, Dominica, St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Antigua and Barbuda – accepted Quito’s proposal to condition their attendance in Cartagena on Havana’s being invited.

    The April 14-15 gathering is meant to include the leaders of all 34 countries in the Organization of American States.

    Launched in 1994, the Americas Summits have until now excluded Cuba, which was suspended from the OAS at Washington’s behest in 1962.

    The U.S. government says Cuba does not meet the criteria to take part in this year’s summit, demanding that Havana make “significant” political reforms and re-establish some kind of ties with the OAS.

    The Cuban suspension from the hemispheric was revoked at a June 2009 OAS General Assembly in Honduras, but Havana says it has no interest in any relationship an organization that “has served as a platform for the United States to assault and plunder Latin America and the Caribbean.”

    Besides discussing the summit, Santos will address bilateral ties with Venezuela’s Chavez, who remains in Cuba convalescing after flying to the Communist-ruled more than a week ago for cancer surgery.

    The Colombian and Venezuelan presidents will also sign some accords they had planned to ink at a March 1 meeting that had to be postponed because of Chavez’s medical situation. EFE

    http://www.laht.com/article.as.....ryId=12393

  82. Anónimo
    Marzo 6th, 2012 at 21:43

    The Sky Is Falling, The Sky Is Falling.

  83. european rebel
    Marzo 6th, 2012 at 18:27

    EU is now standing in the cliff and if it start falling for sure there will not be anymore EU and the chaos will start and spread in the west..which is near the cliff too.The big crack is done and the pillars will fall one by one in the base of the EU structure ready for a big demolition…which will pull all the west down

    http://www.athensnews.gr/issue/13485/53722

  84. european rebel
    Marzo 6th, 2012 at 17:25

    EU’rebelle people will start a REVOLUTION against the Socialism to stop going to Communism…Any prophetic mind for EU by you…the socialists of North and South America?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NojxI3-AImo

  85. Griffin
    Marzo 6th, 2012 at 17:24

    Oops… I forgot the link: http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.....guage_id=1

  86. Griffin
    Marzo 6th, 2012 at 17:17

    Can Raul Castro’s Reforms Create a New Cuba?

    Plagued by US$72 billion in foreign debt, rising unemployment and low industrial productivity, the government of Cuban leader Raul Castro is undertaking a series of economic reforms aimed at downsizing Cuba’s bloated public sector and encouraging Cubans to find — or create — employment in the private sector. Despite the focus on the country’s long dormant private sector, the goal of the reforms is not really to build the capitalist economy long dreamed about by Cuban-American refugees. Instead, the government is aiming to enable Cuba — which annually imports 80% of its essential foods at a cost of US$1.6 billion — to gain the financial footing to pay for critical imports without resorting to further soft credits and long-term flexible financing currently provided by Venezuela, China, Brazil, Iran and Vietnam.

    “Cuba’s credit cards are all maxed out,” says Hans de Salas Del Valle, a Cuban-born researcher at the Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies at the University of Miami. “The Cuban government needs to increase food output, and it can’t afford to pay wages to [between] two million to 2.5 million people for whom there are no real productive jobs.” Real unemployment is over 25%, Del Valle notes, and it could rise to as high as 45% if the government enacts its anticipated series of massive dismissals of public-sector employees.

  87. Griffin
    Marzo 6th, 2012 at 16:21

    Pamela,

    He is what the scroll bar on your browser is for.

  88. Help
    Marzo 6th, 2012 at 16:19

    In “Fidel vs. Godzilla,” Fidel Castro’s latest memoirs, he writes that Charles Manson was a revolutionary and the innocent victim of a US led imperialist plot. Just like Fidel Castro.

    I believe both Fidel and Charles are up for the Nobel Peace prize this year, maybe they’ll share it?

  89. Pamela
    Marzo 6th, 2012 at 16:08

    And we all know who it is anyway.

  90. Pamela
    Marzo 6th, 2012 at 16:07

    The yo yo’s (or should I say yo yo) in posts 95, 96 and 98 is having a conversation between his many personalities right here on this blog, LOL.

  91. russian tzar
    Marzo 6th, 2012 at 15:50

    Cuba is the headquarters of Russian tzars…so we dont want USA businessmen here. It can not be many tzars in Cuba but just Cuban and Russian tzars…and we dont want competition. We have here in Cuba 11 million slaves and many dancers of both sexes.. Now slaves must be feed better to look good when they will entertain us with salsa…

    The USA’s elites should go to Mexico and there they should clean the bushes and build the greenhouses and feed the Mexicans slaves and be entertain by them.They dance well.

  92. Anónimo
    Marzo 6th, 2012 at 15:45

    Pam, you got it all wrong. Che was the serial killers. The other two you mentioned are mass murderers.

  93. redcardinal
    Marzo 6th, 2012 at 15:30

    american businessmen…get out of here. You are lighting to much the darkness…but the blind can not see…so let them go into the cliff…because they are deaf too and they cant listen. For 2000 years we worked hard..to print the bibles and preach the blind and deaf…but still they never saw and listen. The dog food must be blamed for this massbrain destruction. We did often talk about the harvest time which to justify first we must create as a problem and than find the solution; kill all the worms like …fat Pamela…and save so the planet..the God’s creation.We cant tolerate their sins any more so the Harvest time must start and Cuba is the place to go for safety

  94. american businessmen
    Marzo 6th, 2012 at 15:15

    FREE… lunch will destroy USA and that is the plan…so the 300 million food stamp people and useless eaters together with the free education and health…will collapse USA faster. Than after the problem..the solution will be to kill the worms because the body is all eaten…and when is nothing there to eat the worms will eat each other in the horror show cannibalism.the elites will save USA soon from all the worms, the hungry killer worms…and burn them all after the USA’s elites move all to Cuba for safety to start there a big business capitalism in the paradise island which belong to them where the USA’s elites headquarters will be protected by the Castros

  95. Pamela
    Marzo 6th, 2012 at 15:00

    To post 90:

    Here is a link to the TOPS program in Louisiana. Basically, all students have to do is maintain around a “C” average, and tuition at any state college is paid for.

    Let’s see, what would be a good word for that? Oh yeah F-R-E-E.

    Other states (in the big bad United States) have similar programs.

  96. american businessmen
    Marzo 6th, 2012 at 14:55

    Cuba libre is wrong this time,because Cuba is a good model in education,health and unemployment,bureaucracy with 90% useless eaters and parasite worms eaten Cuba from inside. That model is not good and it is to humanistic…so the best choice is North Korea style…a mass starvation and the China’s business of the body parts selling.
    I know the business well and I dont like to lose,so the real businesmen think like me… to get rid of the useless eaters and parasite people who cost to much and dont let to get any profits and send all the world bankrupt. So ww3 or diseases of killing 3,4,5,6 billion people not just in the west but in the whole world may be the choice of the world elites. It make sense such a logic,but you guys here have no logic and dont make sense in everything you say…as pro or against Cuba.Cuba is not a big killing machine and the people live to long there…and eat which is a big problem for the elites,corporations,banks,governments and the religious institutions

  97. american businessmen
    Marzo 6th, 2012 at 14:47

    EU and North America is now like the kingdom of the zombies who any time will start a big mass canibalism.EU classy look is gone and it looks every European now as rat,hungry and multiplied eating EU from its undergrounds,destroying,collapsing it the same as it happen in North America.So the corporate elites may create a ww3 to get rid of the people and than when every city is empty the China and Russia’s tzars will come to take all the lands and property.they dont need Europeans and North americans as labor workers,because they have their own to colonise EU and North America. But there may be some salvation if there is created a new money or electronic currency where example 1 AMERO = $ 20 dollars….replacing the dollar paper and get rid of the big debts,old debts and infation created by the printing money paper by the FEDs. There is no other salvation…but no one is looking to save because the old plan is to demolish the west..by the banks and corporations

  98. Humberto Capiro (El Cibergues@)
    Marzo 6th, 2012 at 14:47

    ONCE AGAIN! C.L. Cuba Libre (La MENTIROTA & HOMOPHOBE & CASTROBOOTLICKER)HAVE ONE QUESTION FOR YOU, WHY DOES THE CUBAN GOVERNMENT NOT ALLOW THE U.N. OR THE INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS TO VISIT CUBAN JAILS? SINCE YOURE SO KNOWLEDGEABLE THOUGHT YOU WOULD KNOW!

  99. Cuba Libre
    Marzo 6th, 2012 at 14:40

    For all the dreamers of Team Yoani who believe in the mirage and all the benefits of capitalism. For all the liars who claim education is free in both Canada and the US. Stop daydreaming and smell the coffee. The Cuban way of life is a success and a model for other countries to learn from. The truth will be heard.

    http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/.....otest.html

  100. american businessmen
    Marzo 6th, 2012 at 14:33

    The west is all in a big problem and all countries want to go communistic…like Cuba to get rid of the people because to many of them to feed…and the welfare socialism is not working eating the countries as worms..the dead bodies.
    Capitalism was destroyed by the corporate communists so they dont have any competition so the communism of Cuba between 1960-212 is their choice…in every country in the west…and Canada with USA will go first to that path to get rid of many homeless and useless eaters,welfare,students,senior…call them enemy of something…or maybe throw some diaseses around. EU will be next to go communism but Russia is holding them back…because the Russian elites like EU for tourism…and not as communism…but when China eat Europe..than the EU will be all red,EU=maoism

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