Have you ever been to Cuba? Their living conditions are great, everyone has jobs, excellent education, and free health care. But you'll never hear and see that since your Goverment doesnt permit you to go there.
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Have YOU ever been to Cuba? Because I have, and for quite a time too, I have crossed it from extreme to extreme four times already, I have been with the Cubans, slept in their houses, ate in their tables, worked in their factories...and trust me, you shouldn't be so naive, because Cuba may have many good things, and it is certainly a beautiful place, but it's really far away from paradise. Yeah, you can blame US embargo on many things, but idealizing the Cuban goverment is a big mistake, very typical of the naive left. Right now, I have taken the "Gramma" newspaper- with "Juventud Rebelde", the only two newspapers in Cuba- from the last time I went there: 6th of September of 2005. Please, allow me to dfescribe it:
On large, big red letters, "FIDEL VISITA JAMAICA", and a long front page article on it, with a photograph of Fidel with tyhe first minister of Jamaica. The other two articles, "This evening, debate on the Cumbre de Petrocaribe and the presence of Fidel in Jamaica", "Tribute of the people to the heroes and martyrs of the 5th of September of 1957".
The next pages, on how Cuba is tighting relationships with India, how the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia visits Cuba, the biography of Henry Reeve, who fought for Cuba in the 19th century, and "Henry Reeve" is also the name of the brigade of doctors Fidel wanted to send to New Orleans, and Bush foolishly rejected. More thoughts of things that happened during the revolution, something about the Katrina wich seems the only objective information, and still leans slightly- just slightly, I admit- against the US goverment. Opinion columns, all friendly to Fidel, the sports and the last page on the development of schools in Cuba. This makes....EIGHT PAGES!!! Counting the front and backcover. Juventud Rebelde is not great either, it's basically more of the same, by different journalists (I have it here too).
So yes, this is the freedom of press you get in Cuba. Isn't that wonderful?
