Cuba: The Land and the People (1950)

[@ramielthefifthangel]

"By the late 1950s, U.S. financial interests owned 90% of Cuban mines, 80% of its public utilities, 50% of its railways, 40% of its sugar production and 25% of its bank deposits". The Land and the People indeed.

[@Hunkiralyfi]

True 🙂 The problem is that in a Communism the situation is even worse...

[@Hunkiralyfi]

I suppose this was before Communism...

[@MikeGuardiaAuthor]

Correct

[@AMultipolarWorldIsEmerging]

They were far worse off back then thd entire countryside lived in poverty and they had no doctors. Cuba was a whorehouse and a gambling den for the mafia and owned by corporate America don’t be fooled by propaganda , socialism has done amazing things for Cuba and its people. Just thd fact that you think it’s “communism” and don’t understand the difference between socialism and communism or when one becomes the other when and why says a lot

[@amosfari7779]

@@MikeGuardiaAuthor При коммунизме было то же самое ))

[@Hunkiralyfi]

@@amosfari7779 ldkflédklé dflá ))

[@miamijules2149]

Land of my grandparents. I’ll tel you, they loved Cuba but they LOVED the United States. They both aided in the overthrow of Batista and knew Fidel and Che personally (my grandmother always said Che was disgusting and never showered). This was until Fidel double-crossed them all and declared himself a communist which was most certainly not what was commonly understood of his politics. Abuelo y y Abuela did not suffer communists - talk about hatred - so they immigrated here to the U.S. in 1960 and both eventually became citizens. I later found out that Fidel put my grandfather in jail and scheduled him for execution. He was saved by #3 in line in the Revolution (Fidel, Che & Cienfuegos, respectively) and told to escape with his wife, my grandmother, because Fidel planned to kill any and everyone who could mount a counter-revolution. Anyways, they spent the next 40 years of their lives trying to get back what they lost but, unfortunately, just wasn’t meant to be. I has become clear to me, over the years, the our inclusive immigration policy only aids those in power on that island; the more we bring in, the less pressure there is on the island for change. It’s some damn Galt’s Glutch type scenario where the best and brightest (or, at least, what were the best and brightest) flee to the U.S. and those naturally predisposed towards passivity are left there to bow to the bullshit. It’s a total mess, for sure, but mark my words…. in 10 or 20 years…. that island will be one of the most prosperous, technologically, culturally and financially advanced places in the entire world. Once that government is toppled, and capital is allowed to flow into that place (by any metric, a virgin market), watch out, because Vegas, Miami, Virgin Islands, etc., will all be Havana’s backyard, and not the other way around.