Today’s Fact of the Day comes from Daniel Benitez in Café Fuerte, who informs us that there are more than 700,000 Black & White television sets still in use on the island of Cuba.
Of course, the blame for this technological backwardness cannot be placed on the Castro regime, who has ruled the island for more than five decades and controls practically every single aspect of Cuba’s economy and Cuban society. Instead, the blame must be squarely placed on the evil and inhumane “blockade” the U.S. has on the magnanimous and benevolent Castro dictatorship.
If it were not for the so-called embargo, Cubans would be enjoying television in full color because everyone knows that the U.S. is the only place in the entire world where Cuba can purchase color television sets.