Gipper
Well-Known Member
Cuba is loved and admired by the American Progressive Left. They want the wonders of Cuba for America. Apparently they have a death wish or they are out of their minds.
- By 1975 Cuba still held the most political prisoners as a percentage of population on earth, surpassing Nazi Germany's prewar rate by several multiples.
- 10,000 Cubans lay in unmarked graves murdered without trial by Castro. - His legal code mandates 18 months in prison for anyone overheard cracking a joke about him.
- He abolished habeas corpus.
- He drove out a higher percentage of Jews from Cuba than Czar Nicholas drove from Russia and Hafez Assad drove from Syria.
-In 1958, Cuba had approximately 10,000 prostitutes. Today an estimated 150,000 ply their trade on the desperate island, many as young as 14.
- Cuba took in more immigrants in the early 20th century than did the U.S.
- Since 1962, a Cuban's government-mandated food rations are lower than those mandated for Cuban slaves by the Spanish King in 1842.
- The average salary is $10 a month and oxcarts are envied as a mode of transportation in Cuba's countryside.
- The only people on earth with fewer cell phones per capita than Cubans live in Papua, New Guinea.
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