June 06, 2007

The Yesterday Show

More evidence of Cuba’s 48 year backward slide into poverty and misery.

It seems inconceivable that a country with Cuba’s resources and ingenious population could “de-evolve”, but it has.

The regime hasn’t announced any official tallies, but according to the Miami Herald, analysts estimate that this year’s sugar harvest will be as small of those in 1903 and 1904.

That’s right. Castro has managed to dismantle Cuba’s once mighty sugar industry and bring it back to a distant yesterday’s levels.

The regime blames the weather for the agricultural disaster, but the blame for Cuba’s “Yesterday Show”, complete with ox-drawn plows, horse drawn carriages, no running water, unsanitary conditions in hospitals and food shortages rest squarely on the Adidas tracksuit clad shoulders of fidel castro ruz.

During the industrial restructuring decreed by Fidel Castro in 2002, Cuba shut down 70 of its 155 sugar mills, stopped cultivating sugar cane in 3.4 million acres of land and reduced the industry's labor force by 25 percent. Sugar has historically been considered the nation's economic bulwark.

This fiasco has nothing to do with the evil “blockade” or global climate change, but by a system of disgoverning that has not only stopped economic development , but has actually managed to erase the six decades of progress that Cuba made from its independence from Spain until castro, inc. took over.

So when the Today Show shows images of a land stuck in the late 50’s and rapidly sliding back into the 1890’s , it’s not quaint or a simpler life, it’s castro inc.’s Yesterday Show.

Posted by Gusano at June 6, 2007 12:45 PM



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Remember, also, that in 1903-04 Cuba was just coming out of a war, on Cuban soil, that had pretty much laid waste to the country and its resources, as well as caused thousands upon thousands of deaths (many of them noncombatant civilians who'd been herded into Spanish General Weyler's infamous concentration camps--thanks again, Spain). If the great and wonderful system implanted by Castro and company can't do better than that, well, you do the math. But of course, it MUST be the fault of the "blockade." Every conceivable problem in Cuba is due to that. There is no other possible explanation (unless you're a US mercenary, obviously).

Posted by: asombra [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 6, 2007 01:07 PM

Has anyone done a study of the average size of US Cubans vs. their cousins who have spent the last 50 years in Cuba?

I wonder what the effects of 5 decades of borderline malnutrition has done to the population.

Posted by: Scott [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 6, 2007 03:56 PM

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