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2005-02-02 Caribbean-Latin America

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Posted by Dan Darling 2005-02-02 3:11:13 AM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Animals that are underfed have been shown to live longer...

Posted by trailing wife 2005-02-02 10:00:44 AM|| 2005-02-02 10:00:44 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Has anybody here seen the documentary titled the Buena Vista Social Club? I was in tears at the end of it when the old Cuban Musicians, after performing at Carnegie Hall, had to go back to "paradise". Their faces were so sad that it was hard not to cry.
This documentary was filmed in 1998 (I could be mistaken) and it shows a place frozen in time. Cuba is pretty much like the Island the time forgot. Houses are dilapidated, people look spiritless (even the dogs look like ghosts), cars are from the 1950s, people wondering aimlessly, etc, etc.
I wish Castro one day would explain what all those incredible educated people do with that education. Where are the Cuban Nobel prize winners? For somebody who claims being so advanced in the science field apparently cannot figure out the formula for making paint to give a face lift to the dilapidated houses that are Cuba's trademark. How about teaching Cubans to mix some cement to build more houses so they do not have to live in holes?
With all that Biotechnological advances he is always bragging about, Cubans should be growing corn bearing 10 ears, raising chickens with 5 breasts, cattle with 10 tits and given birth to litters of calves, etc,etc.
If this is paradise, I rather live in Hell.

Posted by TMH 2005-02-02 10:10:36 AM|| 2005-02-02 10:10:36 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 I really wanted to know where those "thousands of teachers attending an international pedagogy conference" came from. So I searched and found the answer: "...Cuba, Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil, Ecuador, Argentina, Peru, China and other Asian and African nations."
http://news.caribseek.com/Cuba/Prensa_Latina/article_9504.shtml

Posted by Tom 2005-02-02 10:12:14 AM|| 2005-02-02 10:12:14 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Next step: Outlaw purple ink in Cuba....

Posted by john 2005-02-02 10:42:08 AM|| 2005-02-02 10:42:08 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 ... and a fleet of makeshift rafts (including vintage US cars) full with desperate people longing for Cuban paradise departs Miami every day...

Posted by True German Ally 2005-02-02 1:39:18 PM|| 2005-02-02 1:39:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 LOL! Right you are, TGA! And European, Canadian, and American teachers will probably mob the next "pedagogy conference".

Posted by Tom 2005-02-02 2:46:17 PM|| 2005-02-02 2:46:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Si, a paradise it is, if you're a European tourist with a taste for cheap rum and teenage prostitutes.

Posted by Raul 2005-02-02 2:49:48 PM|| 2005-02-02 2:49:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Better to rule in Hell than serve in Heaven.....

Posted by Desert Blondie 2005-02-02 2:58:36 PM|| [http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com/] 2005-02-02 2:58:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 HalfEmpty is in Cuba right now. Maybe he can enlighten us.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2005-02-02 3:23:09 PM|| 2005-02-02 3:23:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 An "hours long" speech by El Jefe on state-run television? Oh, it's heaven all right...

Posted by tu3031 2005-02-02 3:50:30 PM|| 2005-02-02 3:50:30 PM|| Front Page Top

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