April 27, 2005
Rice Dictator II
It's come to my attention that the photo on yesterday's post about fidel's rice cookers for the people, the actual rice cooker shown in the picture is actually a homemade one. Im not sure exactly where I picked up the photo from the net yesterday, but Reuters ran the photo along with one of fidel holding a new rice cooker on April 21.
Of course, new rice cooker or old rice cooker, it's neither here nor there. The photo I posted is just another example of the Cuban people's ingenuity. El resolver. And below is just another example of how fidel castro stifles that ingenuity.
SANTA CLARA, Cuba - April 25 (Rafael Castillo, Cubanacán Press / www.cubanet.org) - Police carried out a raid in the environs of the Santa Clara bus terminal April 22, confiscating merchandise from several vendors, mostly elderly, who work in the area.The confiscated wares were mostly household items.
"They have no respect for anything," said one vendor referring to the police. "They want us to starve. They took from me six gaskets for pressure cookers, several spools of thread and some parts for coffee makers."
The vendors are usually retirees trying to supplement their meager pensions.
Posted by Val Prieto at April 27, 2005 06:28 AM
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Dollars to donuts, Cubans are gonna get those unsavory rice cookers, not the new ones. This is cagastro, after all. He always delivers the worst.
Posted by: A.M. Mora y Leon at April 27, 2005 09:52 AM
I really wish we could exchange American liberals for the people they so admire for living in righteous socialist squalor. John Kerry could be Castro's shoeshine boy, but he would have to fight a lot of others for the privelege.
Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at April 27, 2005 01:58 PM
