December 17, 2008

[c]astro Counting on his "Butterflies"

Reuter’s Marc Frank just noticed that the island across the Florida Straights is really in dire financial straights…

…due to the global financial crisis and the three hurricanes that hit the Cuba this past hurricane season.

Before that, it was a socialist paradise.

But now, the regime is being forced to “juggle debt payments and seek new financing”

It’s always been something; the embargo, the counterrevolutionaries, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the drop in oil prices, the drop in nickel prices, marabu, or the weather. It’s always something other than the obvious: [f]idel. For fifty years the system that he put in place and totally controls has destroyed the country with its corruption and incompetence and yet we still have to read the litany of excuses from his international press agencies.

But fear not. There’s hope (and change) on the horizon. The regime knows that it still has an ace up its olive drabbed sleeve, the metamorphosized gusanos, now butterflies. Its number one import that will eventually come through to prop up the unsustainable system:

An expected increase in visits and remittances from Cuban-Americans under U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's administration could also help, the economist said.

Send money, butterflies. Repression ain’t cheap.

Posted by Gusano at December 17, 2008 01:03 PM

Comments

Bust open the remittance pocket books, folks!!! fidel and co needs a BAILOUT!

Posted by: Val Prieto [TypeKey Profile Page] at December 17, 2008 01:37 PM

Unfortunately South Florida is full of Cuban-Americans (specially the recent arrivals) more than willing to provide bailout for Castro and Co.

Posted by: FreedomForCuba [TypeKey Profile Page] at December 17, 2008 02:10 PM

Socialism is parasitic - it can't create wealth, and always relies on a wealth engine of some sort, whether it's oil, sugar cane, a weapons industry, the "more fortunate", or hard cash from ex-patriots.

Posted by: Lazaro [TypeKey Profile Page] at December 17, 2008 02:28 PM

The problem with the "butterflies" is that they tend to do exactly what's expected of them.

Posted by: asombra [TypeKey Profile Page] at December 17, 2008 02:29 PM

Here is a example of one of Putin's "butterflies"
perhaps there is a lesson in it for all of us

http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=243293

Posted by: Larry Daley [TypeKey Profile Page] at December 17, 2008 02:46 PM


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