Why Cuba Human Development is high?

Discussion in 'Politics' started by Daal, Aug 25, 2006.

  1. good point, when it comes to countries like cuba. but i do not beleive organizations like the cia and the world health organization are easily fooled when it comes to getting the facts.
     
    #41     Sep 1, 2006
  2. It's very simple. They have the resources of a government, meaning billions of dollars and enforcement powers, and they make it a priority. They've also got a pretty good educational system as third-world countries go. They produce some damn good baseball players and maybe the best-ever amateur boxer (Teofilo Stevenson), and for us Canadians, they provide a cheap place to catch some sun and enjoy the world's best rum and cigars. Just like the Soviet Union had the world's best ballet dancers, chess champions, hockey players and circus, not to mention a damn good space program and a strong military.

    They may have been a hateful dictatorship, but, let's face it, 99% of the governments in the world have been hateful dictatorships. Few of us would really have wanted to live under Good Queen "off with her head" Bess, but Shakespeare managed OK. Tolstoy and Dostoevsky maybe wouldn't have had as much to write about if they hadn't been living under the heel of the Tsar.
    As hateful dictatorships go, Cuba is not particularly bad: no concentration camps, gas chambers or mass murder, just a run-of-the-mill paternalistic strongman who suppresses the political opposition, but at least seems to be relatively honest and have a genuine interest in the welfare of his people. You know, the Good Queen Bess type.

    Naturally this will cause apoplexy among the ideologues, who like their bad guys to have no redeeming qualities and their good guys to be all-American heroes. Like Ken Lay or OJ Simpson, for example.
     
    #42     Sep 1, 2006
  3. Pabst

    Pabst

    I'm no fan of communism nor of Castro in particular but your post is essentially correct and well written. However never forget that back when there actually was bona fide opposition in Cuba to Castro, he was as murderous as he need be. But yes, there seems to be something about the Cuban spirit allowing them to overcome great obstacles both here and there.

    P.S. Kind of ironic you mention O.J. who lives in Cuban majority Coral Gables. I wonder if someone somewhere has a trifecta of Lay, Fidel and O.J. in a dead pool........
     
    #43     Sep 1, 2006