Before voting for Labour again, Visit Cuba

[buck]

Genuine question...if Cuba is a better place to live than the USA why are thousands of Cubans risking their life trying to cross to the 'states in little boats?

I don't know how many more millions of people have come here to settle since I did 47 years ago, but it has to be a lot.

[blake]

Strange thing but I do believe that Cuban economy was in ruins before revolution.

 

total garbage. In the late 1950s, before the revolution, Cuba was one of the most advanced countries in Latin America.

 

pre-Castro Cuba had :

 

lowest infant mortality in Latin America

 

ratio of physicians in the 1950s was 3rd highest in Latin America

 

life expectancy in 1955 was 63 years of age when the average in Latin America in those days was 52

 

4th highest literacy rate in Latin America in 1950s

 

#1 television set ownership in Latin America in 1950s

 

only country in the world, with no exceptions, where there is LESS autombiles/cars per capita than there was 60 years ago - absolute number of cars is only very slightly higher, but the population of Cuba has increased by 60%

 

this is only scratching the surface. The list is considerably longer than that. In 1960 Castro inherited one of the most advanced, developed, best educated, healthiest, and wealthiest countries in the southern American hemisphere. Now despite the injection of what was about 3 to-scale Marshall Plans by the Soviet Union when it was a Russian satellite, it is probably with the exception of Haiti, the poorest.

 

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Admit it Alan, you went to Skeggy for a day, saw a 'Vote Labour' poster in a window and then let your imagination run riot.

 

not likely that he saw a Labour poster in that neck of the woods - especially these days. Boston and Skegness, despite not being as affluent as any of its neighbouring Lincolnshire seats is still a solid Tory seat. Labour couldn't even win it in 1997 and 2001 and they came a distant 3rd, behind UKIP last May.

[runningman1]

In other words you went there because you thought Cuban communism was about to be made worse by US capitalism, a strange view for a Conservative Party member to take.

 

Where did he say Cuba was about to be made worse?